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Article: Nicaragua's killing fields. (includes related article on Violeta Chamorro's visit to the United States)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- April 29, 1991
- Author:
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DURING the years of Sandinista rule it was difficult for a journalist to report on large areas of the interior of Nicaragua. A special travel permit was required from the State Security, and in my case was never granted; "guides" were often mandatory; and the local inhabitants were unwilling to speak out. A year into the government of Violeta Chamorro there is still a residual atmosphere of terror in some areas, but the lid of repression has been lifted enought o give the world a glimpse of what happened between 1979 and 1990. The tale is blacker even than the much-defamed critics of Sandinismo dared to suggest.
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