Published Thursday, May 27, 1999, in the Miami Herald
IN THE AMERICAS
From Herald Staff and Wire Reports
NICARAGUA
Critic accuses Cubans, Sandinistas of
abuses
A Nicaraguan critic of the former Sandinista government has accused
Sandinista and Cuban security officials of murdering and torturing
hundreds of political opponents in the early 1980s.
Reynaldo Aguado, jailed by the Sandinistas from 1984 until their
electoral defeat in 1990, told a news conference in Miami on Tuesday he
wants the Sandinista and Cuban officials brought to trial and their
victims compensated.
Aguado singled out former Sandinista domestic security chief Lenin
Cerna, who recently retired from the army, and Gen. Fabian Escalante, one
of the top Cuban military advisors to the Sandinistas in the 1980s.
ETC.
CUBA -- The ninth Ibero-American Summit has been
scheduled for Nov. 13-16 in Havana, the Foreign Ministry announced
Wednesday.
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