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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (VIII)
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- Who Were the "Contras" ? (VIII)
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- "Our friends are quite aware of what they do. Arturo Cruz, who has
- been dubbed `the leading Nicaragua democrat' by the US media, concedes
- that his contra associates have committed ``damnable atrocities''
- against civilians. Before joining them, he warned that their victory
- might lead ``to a possible mass execution of the flower of our youth''
- while describing some of them as ``civic cadavers'' and noting that
- ``most of those persons in positions of military authority within the
- FDN are ex-members of the National Guard, who unconditionally
- supported Somoza until the end, against the will of the Nicaraguan
- people'' -- not ``most,'' but virtually all, from the top military
- commander on down; Edgar Chamorro, chosen by the CIA to serve as
- spokesman for its proxy army, writes that ``by mid-1984, 46 out of 48
- of the contra commandantes were former National Guardsmen.'' Cruz is
- unhappy about the fact that the contras ``are almost totally
- controlled by right-wingers, many of them followers of'' Somoza,
- Dennis Volman reports. The new unified command (UNO) set up by the CIA
- is ``dominated by Adolfo Calero, according to all sources
- interviewd''; ``Mr. Calero is an ultra-conservative Nicaraguan
- businessman closely allied to those FDN field commanders who were top
- officers in Somoza's army''..."[28]
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- [Cruz is saying something unpleasant to some, so it is ]
- [best to save their fingers the trouble of attacking ]
- [Cruz since the U.S. senate found the same 46 out of 48 ]
- [(Senate report cited later on in the series; or by email) --HB]
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- [28]:New York Times, Nov. 23, 1984; Pamela Constable, Boston Globe,
- April 24, 1985; Cruz, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1983; Cruz, Op-Ed, New
- York Times, Dec. 6, 1984; Edgar Chamorro, In These Times, Sept. 4,
- 1985; Dennis Volman, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 15, 1985
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- [From _Turning the Tide. U.S.. Intervention in Central America and the
- Struggle for Peace_ By Noam Chomsky, 1985, South End Press, Boston.]
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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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