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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:53:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:53:30 1985
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In article <531@nbires.UUCP> djs@nbires.UUCP (Diana Spalding) writes:
>
>It's true that the newspapers are submitted to a committee, and
>some things are censored, but come on, this country is at war with the
>largest super power on earth.

"some things" are censored??. It's more like 40 to 50% of the newspaper
every day.

>In addition, anything that is censored from La
>Prensa (the right wing paper in Nicaragua) is posted on a bulletin board
>by the road for anyone to come read if they so desire.

La Prensa IS NOT a right wing newspaper. The Chamorro family who owns
the paper were antisomozas and took a leading place in demanding from
Somoza to step down. La Prensa, just like many other nicaraguans, found
that the Sandinistas were betraying their own principled of having free
elections and a democracy. La Prensa is now the only opposition media
in Nicaragua.
Also, posting the newspaper articles on a bulletin board doesn't do much
good to inform the people. Just how many nicaraguans do you think read
that bulletin booard everyday?. The press censorship in Nicaragua, as well
as all other missing civil liberties have little or nothing to do with
them having a war against the contras. This is a must of all totalitarian
governments. They just can not afford their people being freely informed.
It happens in all dictatorships, left and right wing. The government wants
the people to hear what they want them to hear, nothing less, nothing more.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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