Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: El Salvador, Nicaragua Message-ID: <1653@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:48:24 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1653 Posted: Tue Nov 5 12:48:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:46:58 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> <347@ubvax.UUCP> <766@mmintl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 36 > > 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? (')"#$'&("#$"(')#$&%! -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of any other Madison Academic Computing Center person or group at UW-Madison. ARPA: uwmacc!myers@rsch.wisc.edu UUCP: ..!{harvard,ucbvax,allegra,topaz,akgua,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!myers BitNet: MYERS at WISCMACC