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Monday, February 2, 1987 Daily Nebraskan Page 3 Central Americans still struggling, local expert says o r By Shawn Schuldies Staff Reporter (q) fo) Central American countries are struggling to be inde pendent and are not puppets of the United States, said the executive director of Lincoln's Hispanic Community Center during a Nebraska Wesleyan forum Friday morning. Joel Gajardo, a citizen of Chile, who visited Nicaragua in November, said Central Americans want food, health, shelter, education and political participation. "They don't need a long-distance phone call from the Kremlin to tell them they're hungry," Gajardo said. Americans lack historical perspective on the Central American crisis and are given a distorted view of current events, Gajardo said. The crisis has been developing for a long time, he said. Americans tend to make decisions about something and then apply their decisions to a situation from their own perspective, Gajardo said. . For example, he said, El Salvador is now seen as a good government, so the use of Agent Orange and other dangerous chemicals in jungle areas is not reported. America doesn't hear that the literacy rate has gone from 52 percent to 12 percent or that the government opened 300 new health clinics, Gajardo said. Someone without all the information can't grasp the whole situation, he said, so when a country is forced to view reality from one perspective, it is bound to see things all wrong, he said. If America keeps supporting the Contras, it will only increase the destruction, he said. In a question-and-answer session after the forum, Gajardo said he doubts Marxism will survive long in Central America. But he said that he believes supporting groups like the Contras could help give it roots. : ' , ) I - " : '. X Ward WilliamsDaily Nebraskan Gajardo The United States has never intervened because of a concern for the masses, he said. 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