Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-milrat!brener From: brener@milrat.DEC Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: re:nicaragua Message-ID: <3815@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 09:51:26 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3815 Posted: Tue Oct 2 09:51:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:18:18 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 23 >Samosa was a dictator who was justifiably overthrown but he has been >replaced by a government even more repressive. Be serious, if the Sandanista government were more repressive than the Samosa regime (an impossible event to imagine) by now most of the population would have been executed. To refresh your memory, Samosa ordered the Air Force to run bombing raids on the civilian population.If any sort of event of this nature is occuring in Nicaragua it would be on the front page of every paper in this country every day (why don't they talk about Guatemala, Chile,Zaire, etc., is it because they are"open and friendly"?).Yes, the forced relocations of the Miskito Indains was undesirable,they were isolated from the revolution and felt that the Sandinistas were trying to invade their culture, but the Sandanistas have realized their mistake and are trying to cooperate. It would be a good idea to talk to some people who have traveled there as an educational experience, Nicaraguans welcome Americans to spend time in Nicaragua so they may determine the truth for themselves instead of relying on a maligned press. After fighting so hard and sustaining such casualities (50,000 dead during the course of the struggle) the people are not likely to settle for a government "even more repressive". steve b