Sandinista Foreign Policy: Strategies for Survival
UnpublishedMay/June
1985
Volume:
19
Number:
3
Report
"I, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF the United States of America, find that the policies and actions of the Government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat." The wording of that declaration on May 1 of an economic embargo against Nicaragua is some mea- sure of how far we have travelled, and how far elite opinion has changed, since the summer of 1979.
Article
Janet Shenk
El Salvador no longer dominates the headlines from Central America. The foreign press corps has dwindled to a handful of reporters.
Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers by Margaret Randall. Sol- idarity Publications, 215 pp.
Marc Edelman
YEARS BEFORE THE JULY 1979 TRIUMPH of the Nicaraguan revolution, Carlos Fonseca cited a passage from Che Guevara's Guerra de Guerrillas, which pointed to Augusto Cesar San- dino's struggle against the U.S.
Robert Armstong
NON-ALIGNMENT IS A RECENT CON- cept in international relations. It originated among the emerging nations of the Third World as a way of avoiding involvement in the U.
Pro-Life Subversion To take steps toward the reappear ance alive of the disappeared is a sub- versive act, and measures will be adopted to deal with it. Gen.
Nancy Peckenham
AYACUCHO, Peru-Dozens of soldiers surrounded our plane as we landed at the Ayacucho airport. After passing a military checkpoint, we en- tered the airport where no civilians, except passengers, are allowed.
Charles Walker
LIMA, Peru-Although the defeat of the center Right government party. Popular Action, was expected in the April 14 Peruvian presidential elec- tions, few predicted the extent of the opposition victory.
The Uses and Abuses of History EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, WHEN WE CHANG- ed the look of NACLA's Report on theAmericas, we introduced a new feature called "Press Coverage." Later, it became "On the Record.
Robert Matthews
OF THE THREE SANDINISTA PRINCIPLES of political pluralism, mixed economy and in- national security zone. But Nicaragua embraced a conception of non-alignment that was radical and ternational non-alignment, it was the last that most anti-imperialist; given the country's unique history it interested the United States.