To stop the Nicaraguans from completing a canal to compete with our own in Panama.
But the real point was that I believed someday the Nicaraguans would reach a peace agreement.
Called Zero Hunger, the national development programme has been designed to help mainstream rural Nicaraguans.
Polls and feelings among Nicaraguans show discontent with the Sandinista leadership under Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
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But most Nicaraguans have other priorities than judging whether the Sandinista revolution has been a success, or a fraud.
We're Dominicans, Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, Brazilian and a couple dozen other possibilities drawn from this hemisphere.
Nicaraguans now account for at least 10% of the country's population of 3.7m.
But if Nicaraguans have had to swallow the results, foreigners have not.
Most of the team members are Nicaraguans applying daily effort toward the end of eliminating the abject dehumanization of their countrymen and women.
The Colombians claim to have been given the area in a 1928 treaty which the Nicaraguans say is void signed on their behalf by American occupiers.
Unlike the more politically powerful Cuban refugees, the Nicaraguans for years lived in a limbo-like status: not given political asylum, yet regularly granted work permits and made to feel welcome.
The Nicaraguan government accused Puracal of being part of a group of drug traffickers, but Puracal's defense team says investigators could not establish links between Puracal and 10 Nicaraguans who were convicted with him.
This is cause for jubilation not only on the part of Nicaraguans but also for those in Central America and other parts of the hemisphere whose security was directly, or indirectly, threatened by Sandinista aggression.
The brusque attitude and tone had been instilled at West Point, together with the gimlet stare and the preference for dealing with America's adversaries, whether Cubans, Palestinians or leftist Nicaraguans, with a bombing run or an invasion.
The Sandinists still have the solid support of a third of Nicaraguans, because of their toppling of Anastasio Somoza, a corrupt dictator, in 1979, their progressive social policies and their spirited if disastrous battle against the United States' intervention.
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After about seven years (and in keeping with their core beliefs), World Relief turned over the reins of the operation to the Nicaraguans, now led by Mario, who led Rick and me 3, 000 feet in elevation to the home and business of Claudio Martinez.
And the drumming of fingers by the American government over the 500-odd property claims from ex-owners, mostly Nicaraguans, resident in the United States had become a deafening throb, accompanied by warnings that the Americans would suspend aid and block multilateral loans unless things were sorted out.
Since the Iranians are allowed to come and go as they wish and there is no surveillance by the Nicaraguans as to what goes on inside this compound, it is easy to imagine that this new embassy might be used for smuggling of weapons and development and execution of plans to attack American interests.
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