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Subject: Re: USA foreign policy towards & Revolut - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 04:36:20 EDT
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uicsl!pollack    Sep 16 01:04:00 1983

Last you heard?  I don't know who you are hearing, but they are
deliberately lying to you about Central America.

All "facts" you have presented or implied you could present are not
backed up by history or documentation. They seem to be "black
propaganda" issued from the armpit of our right wing.

Start looking at your references and you will see that they are all
assertions made by columnists or officials of our administration.

You should trust such issuings as one should trust second-hand reports
of Green Berets teaching 14 year old Salvadoran boys how to torture by
slow dismemberment.

I read as much as possible in order to verify "the last thing I hear"
about Central America, and I disagree with just about every "fact" you
do (or imply you can)  present!!!!

Last I heard, elections are still on for 85. And considering
Nicaragua's vast improvement in health & literacy, lack of a terrorist
police force, absence of capital punishment, and development of large
numbers of diverse organizations, the elections should go well.
Unfortunately, the CIA has predicted the fall of Managua (i.e. not
Nicaragua) by the end of 1983. Were this to happen, I predict that a
former friend of Somoza, who, coincidentally, speaks English, will be
installed as "Presidente" for life, and, as in Chile, there will never
be elections.

La Prensa was modernized in 1980 by the CIA-influenced Inter American Press
Association. It had a format change to look like the National Enquirer,
and started printing pictures of Sandinist Leaders next to bold
unrelated headlines about tortures and rapes, and running
stories of heavenly visits from Virgin Mary to condemn the government.
Considering the effectiveness of this form of psychological warfare,
as demonstated in Chile and Jamaica, censorship is an excellent, nonviolent
response.

And the movement of certain border Indian villages, while certainly not
as expensive as My Lai, Love Canal or Times Beach, was internationally
observed and approved.