CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 26, 1986
The foreign ministers of the eight biggest democracies in Latin America gathered last week in Brazil for a meeting that has important implications for the crisis in Central America and that could also have a profound effect on future U.S.-Latin American relations.
NEWS
February 24, 1990 | DOYLE McMANUS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Bush Administration, while maintaining publicly that the U.S.-backed opposition has a good chance to win Sunday's election in Nicaragua, is quietly preparing for an outcome most officials consider more likely: a victory by the Sandinista government. If the leftist Sandinistas win the vote by a significant margin, it would constitute a direct repudiation of almost a decade of U.S.