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!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!ekrell From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua Message-ID: <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:53:30 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7280 Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:53:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:26:10 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 30 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 ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell