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- Subject: NY Nica News Update #135, 8/30/92
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- ** Topic: Weekly News Update #135, 8/30/92 **
- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF GREATER NEW YORK
- 339 LAFAYETTE ST., NEW YORK, NY 10012 (212) 674-9499
- WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE #135 AUGUST 30, 1992
-
- In This Issue:
-
- 1. Nicaraguan University Students Win 6% of National Budget
- 2. Viva Vivas?
- 3. Police Chief Rene Vivas Gets Bum Rap (Again!)
- 4. Nicaraguan Assembly to Investigate Military Intelligence
- 5. Other Nicaragua News
- 6. The Other Free Trade Agreement
- 7. Huge Demonstrations Demand Brazilian President's
- Impeachment
- 8. Brazilian Protests Target Collor's Economic Policies
- 9. Mexico and Argentina: The Next Neoliberal Basket Cases?
- 10. El Salvador: Disarmament and Continued Disappearances
- 11. Guatemala Finally to Join Non-Aligned Movement
- 12. International Outcry As More Gay Men Murdered in Mexico
- 13. Chile's AIDS Prevention Campaign Banned Again
- 14. Central America Cholera Scoreboard
- 15. In Other News: Venezuela, Quebec, Contragate, Costa Rica
- 16. Upcoming Tours and Delegations
- 17. Upcoming Events in the NYC Area 8/31/92 - 9/7/92
-
- These updates are published weekly. A one-year subscription is
- $25. Back issues and source materials are available on request.
- (Many of our source materials are accessed through Peacenet.)
- Feel free to reproduce these updates or reprint any information
- from them, but please credit us. We welcome your comments and
- ideas: send them via Peacenet to <nicanetny>.
-
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- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- 1. NICARAGUAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WIN 6% OF NATIONAL BUDGET
- In a 53 to 35 secret vote, the Nicaraguan National Assembly
- accepted the FSLN's proposal to interpret the application of the
- university autonomy law in favor of the students' demands. That
- is, the government must allocate 6% of all income, both ordinary
- and "extraordinary" (e.g. foreign aid) to the university budget.
- The question remains as to whether this applies to this or next
- year's university budget. In any case, the government, which
- says there is no money, must find the funds to comply with the
- National Assembly vote. Alfredo Cesar, no great ally of the
- students, is siding with them on this issue, taking advantage of
- yet another chance to irritate the executive branch, which
- opposes the more favorable interpretation of the law. [Central
- America Historical Institute #240 8/6-19/92; Latin America Data
- Base 8/21/92 from AFP, ACAN-EFE]
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- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- 2. VIVA VIVAS?
- Apparently Nicaraguan National Police Chief Rene Vivas, who was
- reported removed on Aug. 5, is still in his post. [See Update
- #134] The official announcement about the changes in the police
- force will be made on September 5, the 13th anniversary of the
- formation of the Sandinista Police (renamed the National Police
- after the UNO victory in 1990). Since the three top commanders of
- the National Police under Vivas are all Sandinistas, many are
- speculating that the change may be more dramatic: Sen. Jesse
- Helms (R-NC), who is leading the US Congressional holdup of $116
- million in aid to Nicaragua, would be unimpressed with the choice
- of another Sandinista to head the police. According to rightwing
- daily La Prensa, unofficial government sources have said that the
- new chief will be a civilian. [CAHI Memo 8/6-19/92]
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- 3. POLICE CHIEF RENE VIVAS GETS BUM RAP (AGAIN!)
- Norwin Meneses and his associates, accused of drug trafficking
- last year after police confiscated over 700 kilograms of cocaine,
- worth US$3.5 milllion, went on trial on August 14. Despite his
- protestations that it was Police Chief Rene Vivas and certain
- army officers who were really the drug traffickers, Meneses was
- found guilty. He was fined 40,000 cordobas ($8,000) and sentenced
- to 25 years in jail. The other four accused were sentenced to
- five to 17 years. [CAHI #0240, 8/6-19/92; El Diario La Prensa NY
- 8/27/92 from EFE] (For twelve years under the Sandinista
- government there was little cocaine trafficking in Nicaragua.)
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- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- 4. NICARAGUAN ASSEMBLY TO INVESTIGATE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
- The National Assembly's Defense and Governance Committee will
- launch an investigation into activities conducted by the Defense
- Information Directorate (DID), a division of the army. DID chief
- Col. Lenin Cerna will be called upon to testify. Based on his
- testimony, there may be a recommendation to eliminate the DID
- during the National Assembly debate on the new Organic Military
- Law. Rightwingers accuse the DID of being a "Sandinista secret
- police" because Cerna was head of state security under the
- Sandinista government. Cerna denied the charges, adding that the
- body was reduced from 2,015 to 400 members and is under the
- authority of President Chamorro and Gen. Humberto Ortega. He
- pointed out that the intelligence bodies of neighboring Costa
- Rica and Honduras are at least twice as large as that of
- Nicaragua. At a joint news conference with Cerna, army
- spokesperson Col. Ricardo Wheelock stated that, with 17,000
- members, Nicaragua's military is the smallest in the Central
- American region. Guatemala has 60,000 and wants to increase that
- number by 25%; the Salvadoran army, as part of the peace process,
- will be reduced to 32,000 members; Honduras has 28,000 members in
- its military; and Costa Rica's combined security forces number
- 26,000. [LADB 8/28/92 from ACAN-EFE, AFP]
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- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- 5. OTHER NICARAGUA NEWS
- The latest statistics by INEC (Nicaraguan Statistics and Census
- Office) on poverty in Nicaragua show that, out of a population of
- 3.7 million people, over 800,000 are unemployed; 2.8 million live
- below the poverty line; 600,000, are living in extreme or
- absolute poverty; at least 100,000 live in structures made of
- cardboard and plastic in urban squatter settlements. At the same
- time, Deputy Finance Minister Leonel Rodriguez said there will be
- another reduction in public spending, but would not give details.
- [LADB 8/21/92 from AFP]... On August 20, in protest against the
- high cost of permits to pass through various municipalities
- throughout the country, transport truck and inter-city bus
- drivers set up roadblocks. Although passenger vehicles may pass
- on the road, for the time being, all land borders have been
- blocked, interrupting trade. [CAHI #0240 8/6-19/92]
-
- CORDOBA CORNER: After more than a year of stability, the black
- market rate has risen to 5.5 cordobas to the US dollar. The
- official exchange rate remains 5 to the dollar. [CAHI Memo 8/6-
- 19/92]
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- 6. THE OTHER FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
- A preliminary free-trade pact was signed in Managua on August 19
- between Nicaragua and the rest of Central America and Mexico.
- There was some protest in Nicaragua from small-scale
- manufacturers who say that domestic small industry will be driven
- under by the competition. [CAHI Memo 8/6-19/92] Some Central
- American governments are seeking to form an economic bloc with
- which Mexico could act as a buyer and go-between to the US and
- Canadian markets. The pact will go into full operation in 1996.
- Some Central American entrepreneurs, however, are skeptical,
- saying that Central American industries are not in a position to
- trade in a free market because of deficient industrial production
- and the high costs of farm products. [Inter Press Service
- 8/21/92]
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- 7. HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS DEMAND BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT'S IMPEACHMENT
- Brazil's President Fernando Collor de Mello is expected to resign
- within days following increased public outcry over reports that
- he and his family received millions of dollars through an
- influence-peddling scheme. According to a report issued Aug. 24
- by a special congressional panel, the scheme was masterminded by
- businessman Paulo Cesar Farias. The report concluded that there
- was sufficient evidence to bring impeachment proceedings against
- Collor. [New York Times 8/25/92, 8/28/92]
-
- Although the precise procedures for impeachment are in dispute,
- it appears that a two-thirds majority of the 502 congressional
- deputies must vote for impeachment. So far 324 have declared that
- they will vote to impeach Collor--twelve short of two-thirds--and
- only 35 say they will support him. [NYT 8/29/92] Many Brazilian
- political parties have called on their deputies to vote for
- impeachment: Paulo Maluf, head of the Social Democratic Party and
- the best man at Collor's 1987 wedding, announced Aug 24 that his
- party's forty deputies would vote to impeach; Workers Democratic
- Party leader and Rio de Janeiro governor Leonel Brizola, who had
- been one of Collor's most vocal supporters, switched to backing
- impeachment Aug. 24 after Brizola and his party were booed at
- recent rallies. [Washington Post 8/24/92, 8/25/92; NYT 8/25/92]
- Even the pro-government Liberal Front Party is discussing a
- negotiated resignation. [NYT 8/29/92]
-
- Many Brazilians aren't willing to wait for impeachment procedures
- and are calling for Collor's immediate resignation, including the
- country's largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo, which declared
- in an editorial Aug. 26, "the only worthy alternative he has left
- is resignation." Meanwhile, 200,000 protestors hit the streets of
- Sao Paulo, the nation's largest city, Aug. 25; 100,000
- demonstrated in Brasilia, tens of thousands in Rio and in dozens
- of smaller cities. [NYT 8/28/92]
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- 8. BRAZILIAN PROTESTS TARGET COLLOR'S ECONOMIC POLICIES
- Largely overlooked in press coverage of the scandal is the misery
- that Collor's US-inspired free market reforms have caused most
- Brazilians. Prices are rising 20% a month, while by official
- figures 1.2 million in Sao Paulo are unemployed [NYT 8/28/92];
- Brazil is now the only country in Latin America with triple-digit
- inflation. [NYT 8/25/92] The New York Times reports that slogans
- criticizing free market economics are "filtering" into pro-
- impeachment rallies. [8/26/92] For many people it was especially
- galling that Farias and Collor's secretary allegedly evaded the
- results of Collor's inauguration day freeze of $50 billion in
- bank deposits [NYT 8/23/92]; the bank freeze briefly stopped
- inflation by bringing most commerce to a sudden halt, the most
- extreme example in Latin America of International Monetary Fund-
- dictated neoliberal economic policies which mandate curbing
- inflation, firing civil servants and privatizing state-owned
- industry. According to a flier distributed to Congress Aug. 25 by
- the Democratic Movement against Impunity, "Collor and his gang
- sold themselves out to international bankers to rip off the
- people and the nation." [NYT 8/26/92]
-
- Collor won the presidency on Dec. 17, 1989, in the nation's first
- direct presidential election. Heavily favored to win as the
- campaign began, Collor campaigned on neoliberal policies; by the
- time of the vote, his lead over Luiz Inacio da Silva ("Lula") of
- the Workers Party (PT), Brazil's largest leftist party, had
- fallen to a little over 5%. [ED-LP 12/19/89] US coverage of the
- impeachment drive has avoided mentioning either Lula or the PT.
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- ** Written 5:26 pm Aug 30, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
- 9. MEXICO AND ARGENTINA: THE NEXT NEOLIBERAL BASKET CASES?
- Mexico City is experiencing a "hot August" of multiple
- demonstrations. Students from the University of Sonoro traveled
- 1500 kilometers to the capital to dramatize their demand for free
- education. Upon arriving in Mexico City, they joined laid-off
- workers from Pemex (the state oil company), who have an
- encampment in front of the National Palace. Some 35,000 textile
- workers are on strike and are sending contingents into the
- streets. On Aug. 19 a confrontation between the police and the
- militant Independent Proletarian Movement (MPI) left 31 people
- wounded. The Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), headed by
- Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, continues to protest the recent state
- elections in Michoacan, claiming that the ruling Revolutionary
- Institutional Party (PRI) won fraudulently. The rising tensions
- coincide with Mexico's signing of the North American Free Trade
- Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and the US. [ED-LP 8/24/92 from
- AFP]
-
- Meanwhile, Argentina's stock market is in what some people are
- calling "free fall." Stock prices have plummeted by 50% since
- June, with a 5.4% fall on Aug. 24. Economy Minister Domingo
- Cavallo attributes the problems to overpricing of $1.8 billion in
- shares for two newly privatized companies, Telefonica and
- Telecom. [NYT 8/26/92] Like Brazil, Argentina has been hailed as
- a model for neoliberal economic policies; President Carlos Menem
- and his in-laws have been the subjects of corruption allegations
- for more than a year.
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- 10. EL SALVADOR UPDATE: DISARMAMENT AND CONTINUED DISAPPEARANCES
- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) combatants will
- resume demobilization after the Aug. 13 to 17 visit of UN special
- envoy Marrack Goulding. Under the terms of the new agreement, the
- government will comply with 43 points of the January peace
- accords that have not yet been complied with, such as the
- creation of a new national police force incorporating civilians
- and ex-combatants from both sides of the 12-year war. The FMLN
- agreed to turn over 20% of their arms to the UN mission by Sep.
- 15 [IPS 8/21/92] and will demobilize 20% of their combatants on
- Sep. 21. [World Perspectives News from Spanish Radio 8/21/92]...
- On Aug. 24 UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali denounced
- the Salvadoran military's continued illegal detentions and
- inhumane treatment of prisoners, and called on the government to
- respect human rights. [Cubanews from Radio Havana Cuba 8/25/92]
- This followed an Aug. 12 FMLN press release reporting a "spiral
- of attacks against life and human rights" including the murders
- of trade unionists and attacks on FMLN members and human rights
- investigators. [Proceso 8/19/92]... Meanwhile, official aid
- missions from Japan and Germany brought aid to help reconstruct
- the country. [Central America Report 8/21/92]
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- 11. TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: GUATEMALA TO JOIN NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT
- President Jorge Serrano announced on August 17 that Guatemala
- will become a member of the Non-Aligned Movement at a summit
- meeting of the 100 member-nation body in early September in
- Indonesia. Although Guatemala has sought entrance into the Non-
- Aligned Movement since its inception, its territorial dispute
- with neighboring Belize remained an obstacle. That obstacle was
- removed with President Serrano's recognition of Belize as a
- soverign state. There have been increasing calls by member-
- nations for tne Non-Aligned Movement to soften its
- confrontational attitude towards the north and lessen its
- "leftist" ideological leanings. According to some, Argentina's
- withdrawal from the movement in 1991 was indicative of this
- trend. [LABD 8/21/92 from IPS]
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- 12. INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY AS MORE GAY MEN MURDERED IN MEXICO
- Mexican police arrested two gay men in connection with a string
- of murders of AIDS workers in Chiapas [see Update # 131]; while
- the men were in custody, another gay activist, Martin Balesca
- Dominguez, was attacked and left for dead Aug. 10. Mexican gay
- groups have asked Amnesty International to take up the case of
- the two men held without evidence, and have demanded that the
- National Commission on Human Rights investigate the "systematic
- and often silent genocide suffered by the gay and lesbian
- population of the country." Thirteen gay men and nine prostitutes
- have been assassinated in Chiapas over the past year; gays and
- transvestites have also been murdered recently in Oaxaca, Mexico
- City and Guadalajara. Enrique Asis, Latin America Coordinator of
- the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission
- (IGLHRC), said, "It's time for the Mexican government to take
- seriously the epidemic of anti-gay violence throughout the
- country and to force the police to fully investigate the murders
- of gay men." For more information call the IGLHRC: 415-244-8680.
- [New York Transfer News posted by Diane Bailey 8/23/92]
-
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- 13. CHILE'S AIDS PREVENTION CAMPAIGN BANNED AGAIN
- Megavision, one of Chile's biggest television channels, will not
- air the third stage of the government's AIDS prevention campaign
- because it does not adhere to the doctrine of the Catholic
- church. The second stage of the campaign earlier this year was
- banned by both Megavision and the Catholic University channel.
- The Catholic University has not yet decided about the new spots,
- but the Archbishop of San Bernardo earlier this week stated that
- "all contraceptives are evil, sinful and against the word of
- God... You cannot attack one immorality with one more immoral
- still...." The new spots are more explicit than the previous
- ones, and actually show a condom. [Chile Information Project News
- 8/22/92, 8/27/922 from La Epoca, La Nacion]
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- 14. CENTRAL AMERICA CHOLERA SCOREBOARD
- Country Confirmed Cases Confirmed Deaths
- Costa Rica 8 0
- El Salvador 7,017 69
- Guatemala 15,910 247
- Honduras 261 12
- Nicaragua 982 7
- [LADB 8/28/92 from Notimex, IPS, AP, ACAN-EFE]
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- 15. IN OTHER NEWS...
- The Venezuelan Workers's Confederation charged the national guard
- and police with attacking oil workers, who ended a strike Aug.
- 20. The 3,000 strikers were demanding better working conditions
- and the reinstatement of two workers fired last June. Authorities
- called in troops to break up the strike and the management fired
- about 100 workers. [Cubanews from Radio Havana Cuba 8/24/92]...
- Quebecois independentists have condemned proposed changes in
- Canada's constitution that would keep Quebec under Queen
- Elizabeth's control but would grant special priviliges to the
- province such as control over immigration and employee training.
- The Parti Quebecois and the youth movement of the governing
- Liberal Party say the proposed changes fall short of what is
- needed; a referendum will be held in Quebec Oct. 26. [NYT
- 8/28/92]... The Contragate trial of a former CIA clandestine
- operations head ended in a mistrial on Aug. 26 when the majority
- of the jurors refused to convict Clair George of lying to
- Congress. In the prosecutor's view, the jury was swayed by its
- foreperson, a self-described "liberal Democrat." [WP 8/28/92]
- Meanwhile, the special prosecutor's office disclosed on Aug. 25
- that it had evidence (from notes on a phone conversation between
- ex-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and ex-Secretary of State
- George Shultz) that George Bush supported the illegal sale of
- arms to Iran in 1985. [NYT 8/26/92]... Salvadoran Defense
- Minister Gen. Emilio Ponce asserted on August 17 that the Costa
- Rican police forces constitute "an army in disguise." He told
- reporters that the Costa Rica public security forces currently
- have 27,000 members, who are armed and uniformed "just like
- soldiers anywhere else." Citing the US and Costa Rica, he
- asserted that there is no contradiction between democracy and the
- existence of a strong military. Costa Rican President Rafael
- Calderon rejected Ponce's charges. [LABD 8/21/92 from AFP,
- Notimex]... About 1,000 banana workers in Costa Rica affected by
- the pesticide DBCP during the 1970's will receive compensation
- from the North American companies for whom they had worked, in
- exchange for promising not to bring any further claims against
- the companies. The first two hundred workers received their
- payments of $7,500 each on Sunday, August 30. [ED-LP 8/27/92 from
- AFP]
-
- These updates are published weekly. A one-year subscription is
- $25. Back issues and source materials are available on request.
- Feel free to reproduce these updates or reprint any information
- from them. We welcome your comments and ideas.
-
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- 16. UPCOMING TOURS AND DELEGATIONS
- Nicaragua:
- 10/5 to 10/18 - Celebrate 500 years of indigenous, black and
- popular resistance with the Nicaragua Network
- Education Fund; tour includes attendance at
- Continental Congress of the 500 Years of
- Resistance Campaign and trip to the Atlantic
- Coast. $950 plus airfare. Call 202-544-9355.
- 11/6 to 11/12 - Attend the Sandinista Youth's 5th Assembly.
- Delegation organized by FSLN representative
- to the US Magda Enriquez; for more info call
- NSN at 212-674-9499.
- Cuba:
- 10/2 to 10/11 - "Dateline Havana" delegation to break the
- information blockade of Cuba. For application
- form or more info write the Cuban Information
- Project, 121 W 27th St Rm. 1202A or call 212-
- 366-6703. $1075 includes airfare from Miami.
- Other delegations 11/11 to 11/20 & 1/4 to
- 1/13.
-
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- 17. UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE NYC AREA
- [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.
-
- 9/2 WED, 7 PM - Matthew Jardine will speak on the human rights
- situation in East Timor. Asia Watch, 485 Fifth Ave betw. 41 & 42.
-
- 9/4 FRI, 8 PM - "Friday with Cuba" video series. "La Crisis de
- Octubre Reunion Tripartita". Casa de las Americas, 104 W 14th St.
- Call 212-675-2584.
-
- 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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