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- Subject: The Crimes of Nicaragua
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- The Crimes of Nicaragua
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- AMONG THE FOUR COUNTIES in the region where Oxfam America works
- [Nicaragua, El Salvador, guatemala, and Honduras], only in
- Nicaragua has a substantial effort been made to address inequities
- in land ownership and to extend health, educational, and
- agricultural services to poor peasant families. But the contra war
- had slowed by pace of social reform and compounded hunger in the
- northern countryside.
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- --Oxfam America report on Central America
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- Oxfam's parent organization in London, in a report entitled _The
- Threat of a Good Example?_ states that "from Oxfams' experience of
- working in 76 developing countries, Nicaragua was to prove
- exceptional in the strength of that government's commitment `to
- improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active
- participation in the development process' [quoting from the World
- Bank]." Oxfam America went on to point out that in contrast with the
- effective land reform in Nicaragua, the one in El Salvador "has not
- been carried out" and "was not intended to benefit the rural poor in
- the first place." In Guatemala there has been no pretense at land
- reform, as the oligarchy has objected strongly even to resettling
- peasants on government-owned land, which would reduce the supply of
- cheap labor on the large farms. In the 85 opinion pieces on
- Nicaragua in the Times and Post referred to earlier, only two make
- even passing reference to the Sandinista social programs, and none
- compares them with those of the U.S. clients in the area.
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- Edward S. Herman [Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania] in
- Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter 1987
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- T h e " N i c a r a g u a L i b r a r y "
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- * Nicaragua
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- WHO-WERE CONTRAS Contras' origins; make-up; practices - documented
- FSLN H-RIGHTS Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
- FSLN MISKITOS Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
- FSLN NICAJEWS Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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- OXFAM84 NICARAG Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
- FSLN ACHIEVE Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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- NICA-84 ELECTION Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
- FAIRNESS NICA-USA Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
- NICRAGUA ELECTION Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election
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