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- <text id=90TT2993>
- <title>
- Nov. 12, 1990: World Notes:Nicaragua
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 51
- World Notes
- NICARAGUA
- Sandinistas Wing It
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> During 10 years in power, Nicaragua's Sandinista National
- Liberation Front confiscated millions of dollars worth of
- privately owned factories, farms and houses for the state. Since
- their electoral defeat last February, however, some Sandinistas
- have decided to make money the old-fashioned way: by earning it.
- </p>
- <p> Last week Central American Airlines, owned partly by former
- Sandinista officials, inaugurated service between Managua and
- Miami, its rented Boeing 727 less than half-filled with
- passengers lured by a bargain $275 round-trip fare. Said CAAL
- director Herty Lewites, the former Minister of Tourism: "I want
- to be the richest man in Nicaragua." Backed by $1.75 million
- from a Nicaraguan-born millionaire living in Greece, CAAL hopes
- its thrice-weekly flights can undercut state-owned Aeronica,
- which charges $298.
- </p>
- <p> But in Florida, Nicaraguan exiles are urging their
- countrymen to boycott the new air carrier. "They have stolen
- money that was supposed to go to the Nicaraguan people,"
- protested Francisco Ortega, president of the Nicaraguan Chamber
- of Commerce in Miami. It may prove difficult for this example of
- Sandinista enterprise to fly.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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