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From: mjk@ttrdc.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
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Subject: Strangling Nicaragua
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 14:32:57 EDT
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>From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
>In Chile the govt of Salvador
>Allende was deposed thru economic sanctions and support for the military
>coup in 1973 (and for the aborted one in 1970).  In Nicaragua, the
>strategy is economically similar, but since the military in Nicaragua is
>friendly to the revolution, the military pressure must come from outside
>the country.

That's right.  By the way, critics of Nicaraguan censorship should remember
that the La Prensa of Chile (El Mercurio, I believe) was CIA-controlled and
contributed significantly to the general sense of turmoil and destabilization
the CIA successfully cultivated against Allende.  This is not to justify
Sandinista censorship (I think it does them more harm than good), but simply
to put it in the proper context.  The Sandinistas are determined not to
be undermined by internal subversion, which they (rightly or wrongly) see
La Prensa as being.

Mike Kelly