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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: La Prensa in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <7316@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 14:10:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 14:10:02 1985
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References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> <176@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Summary: 

In article <176@cornell.UUCP> gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) writes:
>... there is no denying the fact that La
>Presna is a right wing newspaper.

and just what makes a newspaper to be right wing?. By the same reasoning,
I can call all opposition magazines in Chile to be left wing (like the
government does call them), but I know they are not. When there is a left
wing government on power, that doesn't make all opposition media a right
wing one and viceversa.

>the U.S. government also severely restricted what papers could print
>during World War II.

there is no comparison. The censorship to La Prensa began before the
fighting against the contras started. It has worsen ever since.

>Citing the fact that the Chamorros were
>anti-Somoza before the revolution does not change this fact.  Bear in
>mind that Chamorros run the other two papers in Managua:  The FSLN
>(Sandinista) Barricada and the independent (but pro-government) El
>Nuevo Diario.

I know that. Barricada and La Prensa are run by two Chamorro brothers.
Also, your wording suggest that the Chamorros who run La Prensa were
anti-somozas before the revolution but changed their mind after it.
The fact is they remain anti-somozas and all they want is a free,
democratic Nicaragua.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell