WHAT DOES THE U.S. WANT?
Haugaard, Lisa
IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF VIOLETA CHA- morro's term. the United States intervened quietly, pri marily as the most important of several international aid donors, pushing privatization. budget cuts...
...the Bush Administration withheld over SlOt) million in aid, demanding dnstic reforms in the leadership of Nicaragua's police force and the return of confiscated property, particularly to U.S...
...interests are considered...
...aid also aimed, as it does in ot.her parts of Central America and the developing world, to foster a more conservative and pro-free-market social landscape, by bankrolling private sector think-tanks, business associations and domesticated unions, and by influencing public school curricula...
...andteargassing of protestors...
...perhaps a bone thrown to the Republican Right in a difficult election year...
...Violeta Chamorro ought to be the U.S...
...The Bush Administration's actions...
...But this summer, under pressure from Sen...
...budget cuts and layoffs, trade liberalization, and other common elements of an IMP-style austerity package U.S...
...She is pm-business, skillfully coopting revolutionary forces and putting a motherly face on economic reforms that, at least in the short term, devastate the poor...
...Apparently some policy makers cannot accept Charnorro's firm belief that reconciliation is best for a nation torn apart by war...
...cnizens...
...were shortsighted even if only U.S...
...Bush Administration and newspaper portrayals of Chamono "in bed with the Sandinistai' serve to delegitimize bipartisan compromise and the role of the FSLN as a legal political party...
...Jesse Helms...
...demands to "professionalize" the police could lead to more evictions of workers and peasants from Lands in dispute, strikebreaking...
...government's dream of a Central American leader...
...Sandinistas fear that U.S...
Vol. 26 • December 1992 • No. 3
