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have bien sursertir.'! th
anti-Sandinista "contras" in
Nicaragua. Anti-Castro Cuban
exiles in lli&mi have been supply
ing cash and weapons even a
few of their own people to the
guerrilla groups seeking the
Managua regime's overthrow.
But there's a problem. The fan
atically anti-communist Cuban
emigres are embarrassing the
Nicarcguan contras by their wil
lingness to use questionable tac
tics in the fight against the leftist
Sandinista regime.
Part of the trouble concerns
image. The contra leaders, while
staunchly anti-communist, con
eider themselves Nicaraguan pat
riots trying to rescue their home
land from tyranny. Indeed, some
of them, like Eden Pastora ("Com
mander Zero"), are themselves
revolutionaries, and are battling
the Sandinistas for the betrayal
of the revolution that overthrew
a hated dictator, Anastasio
Somoza.
In varying degrees, some of the
contra leaders are probably wil
ling to work out a compromise
solution with the Sandinistas. Ob
viousty, any negotiated settlement
would entail a process of reconci
liation, and there is evidence sug
gesting that both sides have tried
to prevent the kind of all-out con
flict that would prevent an even
tual negotiated settlement.
But the Cubans operate under
no such restraints.
The are only fighting the San
dinistas because their real target,
Fidel Castro, is beyond reach-But
Castro supports the Managua
regime; and in the Cubans' view,
this makes the Sandinistas fair
game.
Once this rationale of guilt by
association is accepted, the num
ber of potential targets takes a
quantum jump. Thus last month
Cuban-directed thugs gunned
down a Costa Hican businessman
apparently because he was
thought to be a Sandinista sup
porter. Incidents like that are more
than a moral embarrassment to
the contra forces who have been
using Costa Rica as a base for
guerrilla raids into Nicaragua.
Abuses of Costa Rica's unofficial
hospitality could lead the govern
ment to crack down on the con
tras as well as the Cuban perpe
trators, Costa Rica, which no
army, is already risking military
retaliation from the Sandinistas
for winking at the contras' pres
ence in the border area.
So the contra leadership has
put some distance literally
between its forces and the Cubans,
by moving its camps into precari
ous locations practically on
the Nicaraguan border. At one
such forward camp, within sight
of Lake Nicaragua across the
border our associate Jon Lee
Andersen asked contra leader
Fernado "El Negro" Chamorro
about the Cuban connection.
We can't permit them to get
involved as free-lancers,"
Ch&morro said. "They have to
incorporate with us. He i
have began, on a merger that'
would put the-Cuban-led troops
under his comir,ir.d.
But there's some doubt .that
such a merger can take place.
Some of the Cubans' recruits at
their jungle camp in northwest
ern Costa Rica are contra deser
ters. "They recruited the worst
elements" s aid one source, "the
cattle thieves and the killers. -
Fuddle factors'. If you cant
make much sense out of the eso
teric pronouncements of the
economists who profess to know
where the country is headed, take
heart: Seme of our top officials '
share your bewilderment
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