Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Nicaraguan Elections Message-ID: <659@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 10:24:43 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.659 Posted: Sat Jan 12 10:24:43 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:22:54 EST References: <2019@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <2968@ucla-cs.ARPA> <413@whuxl.UUCP> <3142@ucla-cs.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 35 > 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