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- Subject: The Crimes of the Sandinista Government (FSLN)
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- The Crimes of the Sandinista Government (FSLN)
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- Central America: Economic and Social Comparisons, 1979-1985
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- Socioeconomic Ranking* Adult Literacy
- (141) countries (142) Rate %
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- 1979 1983 1979 1983
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- Costa Rica 52 65 93 93
- El Salvador 82 89 63 66
- Guatemala 86 90 50 54
- Honduras 92 93 60 62
- Nicaragua 86 75 50 88
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- * Average ranks of Gross National Product, Health and Educations per capita
- (lower number means higher rank)
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- A 40-year-old peasant woman said of the crusade, "Somoza did not
- want us to be able to read. Now we feel as if we are coming out of
- the darkness."
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- [From Oxfam report _Nicaragua: Development Under Fire_]
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- Research assistance by Laura Henze
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- _Sources:_ Ruth Leger Sivard, _World Military and Social Expenditures
- 1982 and 1986_ (Washington, DC: World Priorities); Inter-American
- Development Bank, _Economic and Social Progress in Latin America 1986
- Report_; Michael E. Conroy, "Economic Legacy and Policies," Table
- 10.2, in Walker, ed. _Nicaragua,_ p.224
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- From page 64 in:
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- Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar
- 1988, South End Press, Boston
- [South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
- [For a free catalog: 1-800-533-8478; see AML resource files]
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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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