Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cepu!ucla-cs!ekrell From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Elections Message-ID: <3243@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 13:19:43 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.3243 Posted: Tue Jan 15 13:19:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 01:22:58 EST References: <2019@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <2968@ucla-cs.ARPA> <413@whuxl.UUCP> <3142@ucla-cs.ARPA> <659@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 41 Summary: In article <659@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) writes: >> The Salvadorian[sic] government offered every opposition group including >> the guerillas to participate in the elections. They didn't because they knew >> they would loose big since the majority of the people support their >> government. >> They were offered equal time media coverage. Did the Sandinistas do >> the same ??? > >As a matter of fact, they did. Also equal quantities of money. Don't >you read the New York Times? The real difference was in organizational >strength prior to and during the elections. The Sandinistas were able >to get more people to rallies because of the size of their party. This >also enabled them to heckle effectively, probably *too* effectively. > >The Contras were not allowed to participate, however. Since they are >engaged in killing civilians (including private sector coffee growers >who support the government), this was a reasonable policy, in my view. >The Honduran based, US supplied Contras are engaged in a scorched earth >mode of warfare waged from outside the country. > >How many opposition leaders in Nicaragua have been killed? How many >in El Salvador? The current President of El Salvador was tortured a >few years ago by a military that has not changed all that much from >that time to the present. > >Someone earlier said that the Mexican TV that they watched ended up >concluding that the Nicaraguan elections were invalid, but didn't >explain why the TV station concluded this. Would this person please >expand on his point? > >-- >Jeff Myers The views above may or may not >University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other >Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. >ARPA: uwmacc!myers@wisc-rsch.arpa >uucp: ..!{ucbvax,allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell