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- Subject: HUMAN NEEDS: Was Nicaragua More Democratic than the U.S.?
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- HUMAN NEEDS: Was Nicaragua More Democratic than the U.S.?
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- [From:
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- I s N i c a r a g u a M o r e D e m o c r a t i c
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- T h a n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s ?
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- By Michael Parenti (*)
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- [From: Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 26, Summer 1986]]
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- H u m a n N e e d s
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- [See especially Oxfam America's 1984 report on development in]
- --> [Nicaragua, available under OXFAM84 NICARAG with the GET ]
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- If democracy means more than a set of procedures but implies
- something, about the substantive conditions of life, then here too
- poor Nicaragua looks better than rich America in the era of Ronald
- Reagan. Decades of colonialism, Somocista pillaging, earthquake,
- revolution and counterrevolution, have left Nicaragua with a legacy of
- extreme poverty, yet the very worst is not happening to the poor
- citizens of that country as it is to the poor on the streets in
- Washington D.C.; no one is starving and no one has been tossed aside
- like so much human refuse.
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