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Nicaraguan granted asylum
WASHINGTON — An official of
Nicaragua’s government-operated
human rights commission has se
cretly defected to the United States,
accusing Sandinista authorities of re
fusing to allow his office to investi
gate most abuses in that country,
according to U.S. government docu
ments.
Mateo Guerrero, former exec
utive director of Nicaragua’s Na
tional Commission for the Promo
tion and Protection of Human
Rights, told U.S. interrogators after
his defection that Sandinista officials
increasingly view the panel as a tool
to improve Nicaragua’s image
abroad.
The commission was established
The human rights commission has come gradually un
der the control of the Nicaraguan .Foreign Ministry,
which has tried to convert the office into a government
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five years ago as an autonomous
government agency.
Guerrero went to Miami four
months ago, telling Nicaraguan au
thorities he wanted to go there for
English lessons, U.S. sources said
Tuesday. Once in Miami, he re
quested and was granted political
asylum.
A four-page U.S. government
summary of the story he told U.S.
officials, a copy of which was ob
tained by The Associated Press, in
cluded the following allegations:
•The commission, established in
1980 for the purpose of investigat
ing human rights abuses, has come
gradually under the control of the
Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, which
has tried to convert the office into a
government propaganda arm.
•The ministry’s secretary gen
eral, Alejandro Bendana, has mon
itored the commission’s activities
since late 1983. Early this year, he
told commission leaders not to inves
tigate allegations of abuses concern
ing the forced relocation of several
communities in northern Nicaragua.
•When two U.S. lawyers visited Ni
caragua last year to investigate
abuses by anti-communist rebels, the
commission paid their three-month
hotel bill, totaling $2,777, and pro
vided them with office space and
transportation.
•Of the nine commissioners ap
pointed in 1983, six place the politi
cal goals of the Sandinista govern
ment above the human tights
interests of the commission.
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WASHINGTON — Texas could
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suburbs, cuts in local government
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and a drop in local bond ratings if
the federal deduction for state and
local taxes is eliminated, according
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The Coalition Against Double
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sioned an economic study of Rea-
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Under the Reagan administration
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