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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:48:24 EST
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> 
> Agreed, the fact that La Prensa is run by a member of the Chamorro family
> proves nothing.  But, while I have no direct evidence (do you?), I doubt
> very much that La Prensa is a right wing newspaper.  It is certainly
> the most right wing of Nicaragua's newspapers, but the entire right
> wing of Nicaraguan politics has been eliminated or forced underground.
> 

Bullshit.  The Coordinadora coalition of parties is still quite active, and
has even met during the state of emergency.  They've hardly been forced
underground.  Some of the right, like Arturo Cruz, is actively supporting
the contras, hoping that US backing will move them to power in Nicaragua
if the contra/US alliance wins the war following a US intervention (my view
on their motives).  Arturo Cruz is currently the leader of one of the `left'
factions of UNO (United Nicaraguan Opposition, the new contra political front
organization).  He would have been the candidate for the Coordinadora
coalition if those parties had registered in the elections.

> 
> Give me a break.  Newspaper censorship in this country took place only
> during declared wars.  The rest of the time, we've had freedom of the
> press.
> 
> Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
> Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108

What the hell do you think is going on in Nicaragua today, a game of
Pin the Tail on the Donkey?  (')"#$'&("#$"(')#$&%!

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