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throw the fledging Sandtoista
fnvTmrncnt in Nicaragua.
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a tiny, impoverished country in
Central America?
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I . FROnSSORa USUSiUNG
Ever so quietly and with subtle
persistence, the United States
government has established &
large-scale military presence in
Central America and the mo
mentum of this U.S. intervention
is now escalating at a danger
ously rapid pace.
Military bases, airfields and
radar outposts are being con
structed in Honduras all under
the cover of successive military
exercises being directed by the
United States.
The American CIA also has
directed and trained Nicaraguan
counter-revolutionaries (the Con
tras) to carry out sabotage oper
ations. Attacks on Puerto Cciinto
and Puerto Sandino in October
1033, destroyed millions of gal
lons of oil and gasoline, as well as
hundreds of tons of food and
medicine, and the destruction
continues. The Undirected min
ing of Nicaragua's harbors (Puerto
Sandino and Puerto Corinto on
the Pacific coast and El Bluff on
the Atlantic coast) damaged for
eign ships from six nations doing
business with Nicaragua. All thi3
is intended by the United States
in order to totally destabilize, ter
rorize, intimidate, isolate and over-
would lilce to have Americans
believe that the Nicaragua gov
ernment represents some type of
"Communist threat" to the Uni
ted States, and U.S. forces are in
Centra! America to promote demo
cracy and to prevent this "Com
munism" from taking control of
the area. Dut when this issue is
examined more closely, one dis
covers that this explanation
couldnt be farther from the truth.
In reality, the major enemy inside
Central America is not 'Commu
nism" but rather poverty, disease,
and state-sponsored repression
(often by Unsupported govern
ments). The revolution that happened
hi Nicaragua in 1979 and the one
that now i3 occurring in El Salva
dor is a people's attempt to attain
more democratic rights and free
doms within their societies. In
essence, America is losing control
of this region, and is trying to
regain it by using military force.
In response to the growing mil
itary escalation against Nicara
gua, Nicaraguan ambassador
Javier Chamorro Mora charts
that Reagan was elevating him.
self to the position of" legislator
Jud-e, and executioner of the
whols international political life
of a sovereign country." While
Nicaragua has repeatedly sought
after a peaceful and negotiated
settlement to this growing crisb
(offers that have always been
rejected by the Reagan Adminis
tration), increasing U.S. -sponsored
terrorism inside Nicaragua is
forcing the people of Nicaragua
to take all the steps they can to
adequately safeguard and defend
their country.
Indeed, the conflict In Central
America is beccrrJr.g another Vict,
nam. At this moment, Reagan's
foreign policy in Central America
is pursuing a strategy of provoca
tion that is leading America to
war. But for all its military might,
the U.S. government will never be
able to achieve an easy victory
against the people cf Nicaragua,
just as it could not against the
Vietnamese people during the war
in Vietnam 15 years ago.
The American public must be
come more aware cf this reality
and not be so easily misled and
fooled by the mindless anti-Communist
rhetoric coming from our
government
Jizi Anderson
Lincoln
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