From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: M-I: Sandinistas (fwd)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 97 9:17:37 18000


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> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 16:52:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Victor O. Story" <story-AT-kutztown.edu>
> To: ATWS <thrdwrld-AT-sphinx.Gsu.EDU>
> Subject: Sandinistas
> 
>  MANAGUA (Reuter) - Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega  
> Tuesday said his left-wing Sandinista party must modernize in 
> the wake of its recent election loss, which left it humbled but 
> still powerful. 
> 	 Ortega, who headed Nicaragua's 1979-1990 Sandinista  
> government, said despite the loss to right-winger Arnoldo Aleman 
> in the October presidential elections, the party survived a 
> ''test of fire'' and emerged from the vote as a major political 
> force in Nicaragua. 
> 	 ``It has been a test of fire that we have passed and now we  
> will have the National Assembly in which to discuss our programs 
> and organizational structures,'' Ortega said in the 
> Sandinista-owned newspaper Barricada. 
> 	 ``What is being discussed is the modernization of the  
> Sandinista Front. To modernize it insofar as new forms of 
> organization and communication are needed,'' he said. 
> 	 The Sandinistas were toppled from power by President Violeta  
> Chamorro in 1990 elections and, despite being written off as 
> dead by some observers, managed to regroup and put on a strong 
> showing in the 1996 elections. 
> 	 They won 36 of 93 seats in Nicaragua's powerful National  
> Assembly against 42 seats for Aleman's Liberal Alliance 
> coalition. 
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