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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: What Would You Do?
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 00:32:51 EST
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>> Why should the United States government support a regime [Nicaragua]
>> that is engaged in the active extermination of a large portion of its
>> indigenous population?  If we did support it, then the news media would
>> have access to the country, and we'd see exterminated indians on
>> national tv.  No thanks.
>> 				Dave Holt
>> 				{allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!holt

Can I ask you where you get your information?  According to my sources,
the nation in Central America which is actively exterminating its
indigenous population is not Sandinista Nicaragua but right-wing
Guatemala, which we quite enthusiastically support.  Nicaragua has made
its own mistakes in dealing with its indigenous minorities, but they
stop far short of extermination -- Nicaragua's chief sin in this regard
has been to try to relocate Indian villagers against their will in
order to protect them from attack by US-supported counter-revolutionaries
operating out of Honduras.

Furthermore, the news media -- and private U.S. citizens -- have plenty of
access to Nicaragua.  There are dozens of people right here in Austin who
have made the trip in recent months.  There are probably an equal number
near you who have done so.  All it takes is a tourist card, available at
the airport, just the same as for a trip to Mexico.

And if it's exterminated Indians you're interested in, all you've got to
do is go talk with their surviving relatives in the Guatemalan refugee
camps in southern Mexico.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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