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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Nicaragua: Chamorro Refuses to Bow to US
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- /** reg.nicaragua: 155.0 **/
- ** Topic: IPS:Chamorro Refuses **
- ** Written 3:10 pm Sep 10, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: IPS:Chamorro Refuses
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- /* Written 12:18 am Sep 10, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
- Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
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- Title: NICARAGUA: CHAMORRO REFUSES TO BOW TO U.S. PRESSURE
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- managua, sep 7 (ips) -- nicaraguan president violetta chamorro
- monday deounced attempts by the u.s. state department to force
- here to appoint ''a group of advisers'' and take other measures
- relayed to her by u.s. diplomat john maisto.
-
- chamorro charged that, maisto told her during a visit he paid
- to managua last week that she should appoint a ''junta of eminent
- persons'' to help her run nicaragua.
-
- ''i do not accept any interference ... i accept impositions
- from no one. i am well just as i am. i am the president of
- nicaragua,'' chamorro said monday.
-
- maisto, the state department's central american envoy, spent
- two days in nicaragua and suggested the creation of the advisory
- group during a meeting with chamorro.
-
- ''i want to be a friend of the united states,'' the president
- said. but she stressed that, as head of state, she could not bow
- to pressure.
-
- ''no one likes advisors or a board of eminent persons imposed
- on him/her,'' she emphasized, adding that she had her cabinet and
- did not have to ''set up an alien group that is not sworn in
- under the national flag.
-
- however, she declined to reveal the names proposed by the u.s.
- official.
-
- chamorro said that maisto did not say that her agreement to
- designate the advisory group was a condition for the release of
- 104 million dollars in aid to nicaragua frozen by the u.s.
- government at the request of a conservative lobby in the u.s.
- congress.
-
- ''if the aid comes, it is welcome. but if it does not we have
- to work harder,'' a defiant chamorro said, adding that she would
- remain in power until the end of her presidential term of office,
- in keeping with the 1986 constitution, and that ''after that it
- will be someone else'' at the helm of the nicaraguan state.
-
- she denied that u.s. pressure had forced here to shake up the
- national police and that she had decided on the changes she
- announced on saturday ''from the first day i took over the
- presidency, on 25 april 1990. it was a pledge i made during my
- campaign.''
-
- on saturday she anounced the retirement of commander rene
- vivas as police chief, his replacement by commander ferando
- caldera and the retirement of another 12 top police officials.
- (more)
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-
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- the dismissal of top sandinista officials from the police and
- other sections of the public service had been among the
- conditions set by the conservative lobby in the u.s. congress for
- approving the release of the aid.
-
- the lobby's chief, republican senator jesse helms, claimed
- that chamorro was governing with the help of the sandinistas (who
- governed nicaragua from 1979 to 1990) and a report issued by his
- office backed this and other claims.
-
- the nicaraguan president dismissed the claims in the report,
- which maisto brandished as proof of supposed ''anomalies'' in
- chamorro's goverment, and his ''suggestions'' on how she should
- govern in future.
-
- ''i am not going to sell my country,'' the nicaraguan
- president said categorically.(end/ips/trd/so/fj-cs/kb/92)
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-
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