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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: La Prensa in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <176@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:35:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 16:35:54 1985
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Summary: 

In article <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
writes that "La Prensa is now the only opposition media in Nicaragua."
It is true that La Prensa is the only main newspaper in Nicaragua that
opposes the Sandinistas.  However, there is no denying the fact that La
Presna is a right wing newspaper.  Although many articles that have
been censored by the Sandinistas have been censored without apparent
reason, this does not belie the fact that La Prensa does all that it
can do to undermine the government there, and many of the articles it
tries to publish would bring about successful libel suits in the
United States if they were attempted by papers here.  La Prensa
repeatedly tries things like printing fallacious articles about food
shortages in order to precipitate such shortages and otherwise
destabilize the economy.  While one may agree or disagree with the
desireability of its doing so, there no getting around the fact that
the U.S. government also severely restricted what papers could print
during World War II.  It may be the case that the Sandinistas are
reacting more repressively than the current military situation
warrants, there is not getting around the fact that La Prensa is a
rabidly right wing paper.  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.

				Gil Neiger
				Computer Science Department 
    				Cornell University 
    				Ithaca NY  14853 

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