In a national radio and television broadcast last week, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra rolled out the heaviest artillery yet in his battle against political opponents of the revolutionary Sandinista government. He decreed the suspension of nearly all civil liberties in Nicaragua, including the right to strike and the rights of free expression, public assembly, freedom of movement, habeas corpus and protection from arbitrary arrest, search and seizure. His justification for that drastic crackdown: the threat of "political destabilization" posed by the "terrorist policies of the United States," as well as by the "internal pawns of imperialism." Said Ortega: "It is a...
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