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Contents:

 1. Nicaraguan Gay Community Fights Back
 2. Sandinista Assembly Condemns US Interference in Nicaragua
 3. Chamorro Dismisses Idea of "Technical Coup"
 4. Cesar Calls For Plebiscite on Co-Government
    Assorted Nicaragua News
 5. Latin American Leftists Meet in Managua, Call for Free Trade "From Below"
 6. CIA Official at Contragate Trial: "Congress Knew"
 7. Trade Pact Signed; Are Trade Wars Next?
 8. More Military Repression in Haiti as OAS Head Plans Visit
 9. Haitian Refugees Returned and Arrested
 10. Former Pinochet Agent Captured in Brazil
 11. Letelier Case to Close Soon
 12. Cuban Deserter Accuses Philip Agee of Being On Cuban Payroll
 13. Death Squad-Like Killings Threaten El Salvador Peace Process
 14. El Salvador Truth Commission Investigates Human Rights Abuses
 15. New Ecuadoran President to Decentralize Government
 16. Brazilians Want Collor de Mello Out
     UPCOMING EVENTS

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** Topic: Weekly News Update #133, 8/16/92 **
** Written 10:20 pm  Aug 16, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **

 1. Nicaraguan Gay Community Fights Back
Lupita Sequeira of Xochiquetzal, a Nicaraguan lesbian and gay
organization, reports that Violeta Chamorro's signing of the
anti-gay law has not discouraged the gay community. If anything,
it has strengethened their resolve to hold on to the gains
they've made so far, and to continue their AIDS education
programs throughout the country. They will be working with Milu
Vargas of the Nicaraguan Center to bring the question of the
constitutionality of the law before the Nicaraguan Supreme Court.
[Phone conversation with Sequeira, 8/16/92] [ACT UP/NY is
demonstrating Aug. 18 at 1 PM in front of the Nicaraguan
Consulate, 56 Broadway. See Calendar of Events for details.]

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 2. Sandinista Assembly Condemns US Interference in Nicaragua
On Aug. 9, FSLN General Secretary Daniel Ortega read a statement
signed by the Sandinista Assembly condemning "the continued
interference of the US government in the internal affairs of
Nicaragua," and in particular, US pressure to remove Sandinista
Rene Vivas from his post as head of the national police. Ortega
accused the US government of trying to make Sandinismo disappear
and "sowing insecurity and violence" in Nicaragua. Ortega's press
conference coincided with an announcement by Nicaraguan
government spokesperson Danilo Lacayo that the government was
preparing for Sept. 5 promotions and "passing into retirement of
several officers of the national police." [El Diario-La Prensa
(NY) 8/10/92 from AP] (Last week the government had reportedly
confirmed that Vivas would be fired, and the FSLN called for an
urgent meeting of the Sandinista Assembly to discuss the matter.
[See Update #132])

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 3. Chamorro Dismisses Idea of "Technical Coup"
In response to pressure from the rightwing triumvirate of Cesar-
Godoy-Aleman, President Chamorro called their list of eight
demands a "scratched record."  Alfredo Cesar, president of the
National Assembly, Virgilio Godoy, Vice President, and Arnoldo
Aleman, mural-destroying mayor of Managua, were largely
responsible for the US's recent withholding millions of dollars
in promised aid to Nicaragua.  The three continue to demand that
all Sandinistas be removed from positions of power in the
government and have added the demand that "any minister who
opposes" any of their eight demands also be removed. They also
want to pass a draft law which would require the return of all
property distributed under the Sandinistas to its original
owners, including relatives and compatriots of Anastasio Somoza.
Some say the group's aim is to force Chamorro to resign.

In return, Chamorro has warned the Nicaraguan people not to take
any promises the group may make seriously. "They may even offer
you money," she suggested, adding that she had never "bought
anyone."

The rightwing group is backed by like-minded members of the U.S.
Congress, headed by Sen. Jesse Helms (D-NC). However, 61 members
of the House of Representatives have called for the release of
the aid in a letter to former Secretary of State James Baker.
[Inter Press Service 8/7/92]

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 4. Cesar Calls For Plebiscite on Co-Government
Alfredo Cesar called for a plebiscite to vote on the so-called
co-government between the executive branch of the Chamorro
government and the Sandinistas. Sandinista deputy Sergio Ramirez
responded: "The problems of Nicaragua are not going to be solved
with a plebiscite." Later Cesar changed his idea from plebiscite
to referenda on various individual issues, such as the property
law. [Central America Historical Institute Memo #239, 7/29/92-
8/5/92]

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 Assorted Nicaragua News
Nicaragua's Health Ministry announced on Aug. 13 that 76
children, most of them younger than five, have died of measles so
far this year in the north and in Managua. Health authorities
have not been able to control the epidemic, which has infected
more than 1,800 children. [ED-LP 8/14/92 from AFP]... Combat
continues in northern Nicaragua between the army and rearmed
rebels, which the army are now calling "bands of criminals." The
heaviest fighting has been in the Kilambe hill area, 55 km north
of the city of Jinotega. Near Yali, also in Jinotega department,
six rebels were killed, including a leader identified only as
"Tierra Lima." [ED-LP 8/16/92 from AP]... According to a report
in La Prensa, Taiwanese investors will buy the Hotel
Intercontinental and the Bank of America Building (the only
downtown buildings left standing after the 1972 earthquake), as
well as two food processing plants and two textile plants, and
will build a facility to attend to the needs of a fleet of ten
tuna boats. [CAHI #239]

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 5. Latin American Leftists Meet in Managua, Call for Free Trade
"From Below"
The FSLN hosted the third meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum of
Movements and Political Parties in Managua July 16-19. The Forum,
which seeks a unified strategy for the Latin American left, drew
representatives of 61 parties and organizations to the meeting
from 17 Latin American countries, along with 43 observer groups,
including 11 from Canada and the US.

A declaration summing up the discussions focused on the
"multifaceted attack of the North against Latin America and the
Caribbean," singling out free trade agreements and the US-
sponsored Initiative for the Americas as efforts to "make
permanent and unchangeable the wide-ranging concessions now
demanded by foreign capital." The declaration proposed an
alternative economic integration "from below," "based on
solidarity between peoples," with popular participation in the
design and management of economic projects.

The declaration denounced the "troubling 'legitimization' of
interventionist policies," notably the recent US Supreme Court
decision allowing the US to try people kidnapped from other
countries. "We believe that today there is the possibility and
necessity to construct new bridges of understanding and formulas
for joint action between the democratic forces of the South and
the North, both victims of the same neo-liberal global system,"
the declaration said. The Forum's Working Group is planning
forums in Europe and North America on the topics covered in the
meeting. [Managua Declaration] (The complete working text of the
declaration is available from this office in Spanish at cost.
Call 212-674-9499 for information.)

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 6. CIA Official at Contragate Trial: "Congress Knew"
Former CIA covert operations head Clair George disrupted federal
trial proceedings on Aug. 13 when he shouted that "everyone was a
goddamn hypocrite about" the Reagan administration's illegal arms
shipments to the contras in 1984-6. George, who is charged with
lying to Congress about the affair, angrily told Iran-Contra
prosecutor Craig Gillen that Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) had
approved mixed loads of arms and humanitarian aid in the banned
shipments, and that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and ex-Sen. Thomas
Eagleton (D-OH) set him up for the lying charges. "Not one of
them had the guts to ask me the question they knew the answer to:
What about Oliver North? They were waiting for me to say the
wrong thing. God damn it, that's hypocrisy." [Washington Post
8/14/92]

George also explained the source of the "Who is Maximo Gomez?"
buttons CIA staffers had worn in the fall of 1986. (Max Gomez was
the pseudonym of CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who aided contra
operations from inside El Salvador; George had told Congress he
didn't know who Gomez was.)  The buttons came from the White
House office of Donald Gregg, then George Bush's national
security adviser. "It was a fun item for you?" prosecutor Gillen
asked. "It was a fun item for the White House," George answered.
[New York Times 8/14/92] The next day the judge threatened George
with summary contempt proceedings if he didn't stop his frequent
interruptions of Gillen. [NYT 8/15/92]

Earlier in the week a federal judge granted a defense request to
postpone the Iran-Contra trial of Ronald Reagan's Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger from Nov. 2 to Jan. 5. Weinberger
asked for the delay on the grounds that his attorneys, Carl Rauh
and Robert Bennett, have another trial scheduled for November:
they also represent Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary Clark
Clifford, charged with fraud in the BCCI (Bank of Commerce and
Commerce International) scandal. [WP 8/11/92]

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 7. Trade Pact Signed; Are Trade Wars Next?
Canada, Mexico and the US formally announced the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Washington on Aug. 12. The
agreement, which awaits approval by the three countries'
legislatures, eliminates many customs duties within North
America, blocks imports of European and Japanese products through
Mexico, opens up Mexican banks and insurance companies to US
capital, and puts commercial environmental standards under the
control of special panels. [NYT 8/13/92] Chile will be the next
Latin American country to begin negotiating for a general trade
agreement with the US. [NYT 8/13/92]

The pact is supported by President Bush and (in principle) by his
Democratic rival Bill Clinton. It is opposed by a wide range of
labor, business and environmental groups, although the pact's
opponents seem to have trouble launching a united campaign. [NYT
8/15/92] There is little evidence that the general population
supports the plan. A poll in the San Diego area showed 51.6%
opposed and only 30.3% in favor, even though San Diego is
expected to benefit from the pact. Strong support was expected in
Texas, but an April statewide poll showed that while 54% thought
NAFTA would create "a wise economic and cultural tie" between
Mexico and the US, 48% said it would "put a lot of Americans out
of jobs they need" and 40% thought it would "exploit Mexican
workers." [WP 8/13/92] The NYT, a leading proponent, tried to
counter negative attitudes with a lead article announcing that
NAFTA may save the average US family $50 a year in fresh fruits
and vegetables (if the family lives near the Mexican border) and
might even "lower the cost of romance" (by eliminating an 8% tax
on cut roses). [8/15/92]

Japan is less than enthusiastic about a trade bloc extending from
Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. With European Community integration
also threatening to cut off markets, Japan may take up Malaysia's
proposal for an Asian trade bloc shutting out the US. [NYT
8/14/92] And East Asian countries are starting to fear
competition from Mexico, which the Far Eastern Economic Review
has called the "Latin Dragon." [Pacific News Service 8/13/92]

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 8. More Military Repression in Haiti as OAS Head Plans Visit
OAS (Organization of American States) General Secretary Joao
Baena Soares is expected to arrive in Haiti on Aug. 18 at the
head of a high-level OAS-UN delegation which Soares says will
"assist a resumption of dialogue between Haitians." The
delegation will meet with de facto prime minister Marc Bazin and
"leaders of the army," even though elected President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide has rejected any negotiations with the de facto
government or the military that overthrew his government nearly a
year ago. [Ha^Kti Progr
s 8/12-18/92]

Meanwhile, the military continues what it calls a "war
operation," supposedly in response to several attacks on soldiers
by unknown armed groups in recent weeks. Tanks appeared in the
streets of Port-au-Prince on Aug. 5 and in the northern city of
Gona^Kves on Aug. 8. General panic reigned in neighborhoods like
Carrefour as soldiers carried out house to house searches and as
the list of disappeared people grew. [HP, Ha^Kti en Marche 8/12-
28/92] The terror even spread to the well-to-do suburb of
Petionville, where university professor Bernard Etheart was
arrested, handcuffed and punched after he complained about a
soldier who pushed ahead of him in a bank line. Liliane Pierre-
Paul, formerly a journalist at Radio Haiti Inter, was arrested at
the Dominican border Aug. 7 when she tried to go to Santo Domingo
for a meeting of FELAP (Federation of Latin American
Journalists). Soldiers held her for six hours on terrorism
charges. [Haiti: Resistance and Democracy, Bulletin #133 8/10/92]

Radio Havana Cuba reported "heavy clashes between the army and
civilians" on Aug. 14, with especially violent fighting in the
southern city of Les Cayes. [Cubanews from Radio Havana Cuba
8/14/92]

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 9. Haitian Refugees Returned and Arrested
Over 150 Haitian refugees, returned to Port-au-Prince by the US
Coast Guard on Aug. 14, were immediately rounded up by the
Haitian police and taken away; the military said that most would
be released. [NYT 8/15/92] In a grotesque incident in San
Francisco Bay, the US Coast intercepted a boatload of 37 on
Haitians Aug. 12 as they staged a protest against US refugee
policy. The protestors had meant to sail through the Bay to meet
demonstrators at the Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco, but
the Coast Guard, on orders from Washington, detained the Haitians
for an hour and a half while Immigration and Naturalization
Service officials checked their IDs. [Global Exchange Press
Release 8/12/92]

New York Mayor David Dinkins has written to the Office of Refugee
Resettlement to ask that 463 teenaged Haitian orphans be sent to
New York. Agencies have been placing them in various US cities
with no Haitian populations, where costs are said to be lower
than in New York or Miami. "After all the losses they've
suffered," the mayor wrote, "we ought to ensure that they can
cling to their heritage." [HP 8/12-18/92]

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 10. Former Pinochet Agent Captured in Brazil
Osvaldo Romo, a notorious officer of the Chilean security service
during the Pinochet regime, was captured in Sao Paulo on July 29
and is being extradited back to Chile.  He is accused of being
involved directly or indirectly in over 100 human rights abuses
between 1974 and 1975.

According to Gladys Diaz, a former leader of the Left-Wing
Revolutionary Movement, in an interview with La Nacion, Romo had
been the head of a sadistic groups of torturers who "really
enjoyed what they did." "He was the worst," said Diaz, "He
enjoyed the cruelty and raped many of the female detainees."
Many of Romo's prisoners have never been found. Over 50 survivors
of the security force's detention camps met on August 11.  Their
testimony confirmed Diaz's statements.

General Hernan Ramirez, a military judge, has asked Judge Gloria
Olivares, due to try Romo, to declare herself incompetent to hear
the case, and to move the trial to a military court. Ramirez,
like Romo, is a former member of the intelligence service under
Pinochet.  So far Judge Olivares has not complied with the
request.  [Chile Information Project 8/9/92, 8/11/92, 8/12/92;
ED-LP 8/11/92 from AFP]

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 11. Letelier Case to Close Soon
The investigation of the killing of Orlando Letelier in
Washington, D.C. in 1976 is drawing to a close. Only three
replies to the questionnaires sent abroad to help Judge Adolfo
Banados decide on the guilt of those detained for the crime are
outstanding.  Those questioned who have not yet returned their
replies are: President George Bush, former Venezuelan security
agent Osman Carneyro, and the Justice Department of the Dominican
Republic. [CHIP 8/12/92] (Letelier's North American assistant,
Ronnie Moffitt, was killed in the same car bombing.)

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 12. Cuban Deserter Accuses Philip Agee of Being On Cuban Payroll
Florentino Aspillaga, a former Cuban spy who left Cuba in 1987,
claimed, in the L. A. Times on August 10, that former CIA agent
Philip Agee received payment from Cuba for twenty years from
funds provided by the Russian KGB.  Said Aspillaga, "When he was
in Cuba he lived like the Shah of Iran.  And I'm sure he's still
getting money from Cuba." Denying Aspillaga's charges, Agee was
quoted in the Times, saying "My relationship with Cuba has been
one of solidarity with the Revolution, not espionage." [ED-LP
8/11/92] (The El Diario-La Prensa article contained no
information backing up Aspillaga's claim.)

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 13. Death Squad-Like Killings Threaten El Salvador Peace Process
The FMLN has demanded that Alfredo Cristiani's government order
an investigation into the recent crime wave, which includes the
murder of six people with ties to labor unions and human rights
organizations, and the discovery of many corpses with bullet
wounds and signs of torture, "the typical death-squad method and
style." They are also demanding moves to prevent further
killings. This crime wave, say the FMLN leaders, is threatening
the country's stability and the peace process. If the authorities
don't take legal action, they added, the FMLN and all democratic
sectors in the country will be forced to take the defense of
their lives and the peace process into their own hands. [ED-LP
from AP 8/13/92]

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 14. El Salvador Truth Commission Investigates Human Rights
Abuses
The Truth Commission, created as part of the peace accords to
investigate human rights abuses which took place during the war
in El Salvador, has begun taking testimony.  The three-person
commission is made up of former Colombian president Belisario
Betancur, former Venezuelan foreign minister Reinaldo Figueredo
and the former president of the Interamerican Court for Human
Rights, Thomas Buergenthal. It has six months in which to
complete its work.

In its investigations the commission is likely to meet strong
resistance from the state and the armed forces.  Codehuca
(Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America) is
concerned that there will be a cover-up, which could only be done
by the state, since "they control all the possible evidence
concerning the crimes and human rights violations."  The role of
the United States government is also vital.  According to James
McGovern, an adviser to U.S. congressperson Joe Moakley, "there
are only two sources of information concerning what happened
during the war. One is the El Salvador Armed Forces and the other
is the United States."

An Ad Hoc Commission has also been formed to investigate the
personal responsibility of members of the High Command of the
Salvadoran armed forces for acts committed during the war. [ED-LP
from Notimex 8/11/92]

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 15. New Ecuadoran President to Decentralize Government
Rightist politician and architect Sixto Duran Ballen, newly
elected Ecuadoran president, will institute a neo-liberal, open
economy and privatize Ecuador's industries. Even before
officially taking office, he met with representatives of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which are
expected to soon assist the new government.  In contrast to
former president Rodrigo Borja, who instituted gradual change in
order to minimize the social impact of economic reforms, Duran
Ballen's economic team is predicting positive results with their
"100-day plan" (reminiscent of the failed economic reform plan of
Nicaragua's Francisco Mayorga). And once again the people of a
Latin American country will be asked to "share the sacrifice"
brought on by the new economic reforms. The new president is also
asking parliament to accept a four-month suspension of the
Judicial Branch in order to make reforms which will result,
according to Duran Ballen, in "an honest, professional, agile
justice system, one that cannot be bribed, and above all, one
that is really just and depoliticized." [ED-LP from AFP
8/11/92;from EFE 8/10/92]

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 16. Brazilians Want Collor de Mello Out
Ten thousand Brazilians protested in the streets of Rio de
Janeiro on Friday, August 14, demanding the impeachment of
President Fernando Collor de Mello on grounds of corruption.  A
student demonstration in Sao Paulo the previous Tuesday drew
similar numbers. Protests were sparked by evidence revealed by a
congressional investigating commission that Collor de Mello
benefited from "secret influence peddling and a financial network
set up by a business associate, Paulo Cesar Farias."  No longer
arguing about his guilt, the president's friends plan to "show
how irrelevant it is compared to the damage the country would
suffer with his removal."

Commission investigations show that Collor's private secretary,
Ana Acioli, received $9.1 million over two years from bank
accounts controlled by Farias, which she used to pay Collor's
personal bills. His wife received $506,000 between 1900 and 1992,
according to the commission's findings.

In an apparent attempt to win the favor of those who will have to
vote on his impeachment, Collor has released $2 billion dollars
in new spending on social projects and farm credits, and
ministers are allegedly drawing up spending lists totalling
almost $5 billion.  Bankers fear this kind of spending will
imperil Brazil's debt agreements, with inflation rates exceeding
those agreed upon by the IMF. There is also the question of where
all the billions of dollars Collor is planning to spend are going
to come from.

More demonstrations are planned by opposition politicians in
September to demand Collor's resignation. [WP 8/16/92; NYT
8/14/92]

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UPCOMING EVENTS: For more information, call NSN at 212-674-9499.
Events listed and flyers enclosed are not necessarily endorsed by
the Nicaragua Solidarity Network.

EVERY THU, 6-8 PM - Vigil for Freedom for Puerto Rican Political
Prisoners and POWs. In front of the UN, 1st Ave. bet. 42 & 43rd.
Call 212-538-0988.

8/18 TUE, 1:00 pm  - Demonstration in front of Nicaraguan
Consulate, 56 Broadway, to protest signing of anti-gay law by
President Chamorro.

8/18 TUE, 6:00 PM - East Timor Documentary and Discussion.
Wetlands, 161 Hudson St., New York City, 3 blks south of Canal
St. Free. 212-966-5244.

8/21 FRI, 7:30 PM - Cuba Video Party sponsored by Int'l Peace for
Cuba Appeal. Int'l Action Center, 39 W 14th St Suite 206. 212-
633-6646.

8/23 SUN, 1 PM - Radical Walking Tour of Chelsea. Meet in front
of Chelsea Hotel, 23rd St betw. 7th & 8th Ave. $6. Call 718-492-
0069.

SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT NICARAGUA! The NSN Speakers Bureau is
available to speak at any event--in English or Spanish--about the
current situation in Nicaragua and what activists in this country
can do to help. For details call 212-674-9499.

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