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- Subject: The Crimes of Nicaragua: Using Resources to benefit the Majority
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- The Crimes of Nicaragua: Using Resources to benefit the Majority
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- ...not U.S. corporations and investors as under Somoza's dictatorship,
- as other the U.S.-backed "democracies" which starve their populations
- and slaughter students, cooperative members, human rights workers,
- unionists, church workers, etc, with government sponsored "death
- squads"...
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- "Achievements in health care have also been great. 80,000 volunteers
- were trained in preventative medicine. One result was a 50% drop in
- malaria. The incidence of measles, a prime killer of children in
- Somoza's day, decreased from 3,784 in 1981 to 219 in 1982. Effective
- use of oral rehydration techniques has led to a dramatic decline in
- deaths from diarrhea. The percentage of the national budget spent on
- health has increased 600%"
-
- [...]
-
- The Sandinista's commitment to political empowerment of the poor has
- brought them into conflict with some of the country's large
- landowners and businessmen. As Peter Marchetti, a Jesuit
- sociologist, explained, "The Sandinistas are saying to the economic
- elite, `We'll protect your private property, but you can no longer
- translate wealth into political power. The great majority of our
- people are very poor. This is a government that is going to respect
- their needs.' And some members of the small, wealthy sector don't
- like that."
-
-
- From Oxfam America, _Facts for Action_ [September, 1983];
- "Nicaragua: Development Under Fire"
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- "Fifty years of lies, fifty years of injustice, fifty
- years of frustration. This is a history of people starving
- to death, living in misery. For fifty years the same
- people had all the power, all the money, all the jobs, all
- the education, all the opportunities. Those who did not
- have anything tried to take it away from those who had
- everything. But there were no democratic systems available
- to them, so they have radicalized themselves, have
- resorted to violence. And of course this second group,
- the rich, do not want to give up anything, so they are
- fighting."
-
- --Former president Jose Napoleon Duarte, in a 1980 interview, when
- asked about the origins of the conflict in El Salvador; Raymond
- Bonner, the interviewer, was surprised by Duarte's sympathetic
- explanation for the revolution, and added:
-
- "But what struck me more...was what he [Duarte] had not said. He had
- said nothing about Castro or Cuba. He had not mentioned the
- Sandinistas or Nicaragua. There was no talk of the cold war and the
- Soviet Union. (Duarte was to raise those themes later, when they
- reflected the views of the Reagan administration in Washington) What
- Duarte was saying was that the revolution had been caused and fueled
- by the conditions in El Salvador"
-
- [see New York Times Magazine, Feb. 22, 1981; see also Bonner's book
- _Weakness and Deceit:U.S. Policy and El Salvador_ (New York:Times
- Books, 1984), page 24] [[source and reference from: "What Are We
- Afraid Of?" by John Lamperti; look up in the file "groups"]]
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- [Use GET command with FMLN BACKGRND for a copy of the file from which
- this later quote is excerpted. Use GET with OXFAM84 NICXARAG for the
- Oxfam Report]
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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'
- *
- OXFAM84 NICARAG Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
- FSLN ACHIEVE Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
- *
- 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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