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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Sandinistas and Human Rights
Message-ID: <4512@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 14:02:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.4512
Posted: Tue Mar 26 14:02:56 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 01:11:36 EST
References: <680@ihopb.UUCP> <489@harvard.ARPA> <528@whuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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In article <528@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
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>The Sandinistas have been held responsible for 3 disappearances.
>The Sandinistas could also be held responsible for catcalls and attempts
>to drown out opposition speakers in the last election.  Is this any
>different than the Reagan campaigns confiscation of protest signs from
>demonstrators at Reagan rallies while passing out Reagan-Bush signs?

  Of course it's different !!. Clearly, you have no idea what is it like
to live under a military dictatorship, where the government controls all
the media. You think the opposition candidates were able to hold debates
with the sandinistas on TV or criticize the government in TV/Radio/newspaper
ads?. No such thing.
  The information the people get from watching TV or reading the newspapers
is completely distorted since all TV stations are owned by the government
and the one and only opposition newspaper in Nicaragua, "La Prensa", is subject
to censorship everyday; the government won't allow them to print anything
criticizing the sandinistas and everyday they censor about 40% of the
articles in the newspaper.
  You take for granted things like Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech,
yet people die fighting for these freedoms.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell