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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Self-determination (question for Matthews)
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 11:44:30 EST
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> 
> > 	As for elections, I suppose they could be fair but I've yet
> > to hear of Marxist-Leninist success in an election commonly regarded
> > as fair.  
> 
> Obviously you forgot Allende of Chile.
> -- 
> 						Mark Roddy
> 					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)

Well, Allende was certainly a Marxist, but not a Marxist-Leninist in the
traditional sense.  Also, Allende wasn't elected fairly -- the US donated
$8,000,000 between 1963 and 1973 to opposition parties, and the CIA
encouraged a military coup right after Allende was elected
by the people, but before he was elected by the legislature.  However,
General Schneider was killed before the coup really got going.

Check out the Church Committee report on CIA activities in Chile and you'll
soon be inclined to help kick CIA recruiters off YOUR campus.

Also, Arbenz in Guatemala was a reformist-minded, freely elected president who
was deposed by a CIA sponsored invasion.

-- 
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