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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Strangling Nicaragua
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 18:52:00 EDT
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WHERE PARALLELS PART WAYS

The methods of US aggression may be similar in the cases of both Chile
and Nicaragua, but the regimes under attack aren't similar.  Democratic
socialist Allende was ELECTED and headed a parliamentary coalition that
was forced to include Chilean Communists out of political expediency.

The junta in Managua that calls itself Sandinist seized power by force,
has purged democratic members or made them fall into line in an authori-
tarian regime, & is a militaristic dictatorship, many of whose key
members have either received training in Communist bloc countries or
were National Guards or flunkies under the previous (Somoza) dictatorship.

Finally, the Pinochet-Kissinger-CIA coup destroyed one of the oldest
continuosly existing parliamentary democracies in the western hemi-
sphere.  Nicaraguan history is riddled with dictatorship & foreign
intervention.

					Ron Rizzo