After the revolution, "I wanted to work in the agrarian reform program," she says. Now she dresses in trim jackets and high heels. When she traveled as a Sandinista, she says, "I lived on nothing," borrowing a dress when she had to make a fundraising speech. She is tiny and seemed almost dwarfed by the large leather armchair.
#Casco glitterato windows#
In the huge high-ceilinged OAS office, which was hers for three months, the windows run the length of the office wall and sunshine streams in. Her post was once held by the former dean of the diplomatic corps, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, brother-in-law to the ousted Somoza. Six months after that, she was chairing the Permanent Council of the OAS, a position that rotates alphabetically every three months.
A few months later, she was back as an official ambassador. Thirteen years later, Rita Delia Casco-Montenegro raises her thinly arched eyebrows - a preface to the story of how her life was twice transformed in 32 years: how the young, privately educated, carefully sheltered daughter of a Nicaraguan coffee-grower became a globe-trotting revolutionary, buying guns, smuggling money for her cause and living underground.Īnd then, with the war won, how the guerrilla agent, a former American University graduate student was transplanted to the glitter of embassy row as an ambassador to the Organization of American States.Ī year ago, she and her Sandinista compatriots could barely get into the OAS discussions on the crisis in Nicaragua. "I said, 'You know what I'm talking about, so don't pretend.'"
"He said to me, "I don't know what you're talking about,'" she recalls. She went to a cousin involved in the Sandinista effort to overthrow the longstanding regime of Gen. It would not be easy: Her parents didn't want her involved.And at first, the guerrillas didn't want her either.
It was 1967, and her 21-year-old brother had been killed while fighting as a Sandinista guerrilla in the mountains of Nicaragua. The first change in her life came with her brother's death.
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