NICARAGUA/COSTA RICA/CUBA

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MEMORANDUM TO DISTRIBUTION LIST A
FROM: OTTO J. REICH
Executive Registry
84. 9561
SUBJECT: Nicaragua/Costa Rica/Cuba
Enclosed is a package of materials focusing on the
above-mentioned countries. Due to the upcoming elections in
Nicaragua (Nov. 4), most of the information deals with that
country.
1. A September 1984 New York Times article on alleged
kidnappings by Nicaragua's anti-San inistas, with accompanying
letter-to-the-editor by Professor Bernard Nietschmann of the
University of California at Berkeley. Professor Nietschmann,
an expert on the Indians of Nicaragua, points out the biases
and inaccuracies of the NY Times article.
2. Extracts of two secret Sandinista speeches, published
in August and September 1984 by Foreign Report. The two
speeches, by junta member Bayardo Arce, were first published in
the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia. Publication of the
speeches proved to be embarrassing for the Sandinistas because
of the candidness of some of the statements. For example, Arce
characterizes the upcoming Nicaraguan election as a 'hindrance'
and says further that 'We are discussing . . . first, the idea
of putting an end to all this artifice of pluralism . . .' In
the second speech, Arce calls for . . . unity of the
Marxist-Lenists of Nicaragua . . .' And in some very telling
statements, Arce further unmasks Sandinista views when he says,
'But democracy, as they call it, bourgeois democracy, contains
an element which we can manage and obtain positive elements for
the construction of socialism in Nicaragua. Be goes on to say,
'The Socialist party is a Marxist-Leninist party . . .', and
'This is going to be the first experience in the construction
of socialism with the dollars of capitalism.'
3. 'Other Voices From Nicaragua,' is an article by Sister
Camilla Mullay, taken from the August 31, 1984, edition of The
Pilot. In this article, the Sister points out the fact that
many religious leaders who strongly opposed Somoza are also
strongly opposed to the Sandinistas today and, 'They find it
disheartening that their new Sandinista oppressors have been
winning the propaganda war for North America and Western
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Washington, D.C. 20520
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Europe.' Sister Camilla relayed a message from a Nicaraguan
Sister which sums up the situation pretty well: 'North
Americans should not take for granted that the news they get
from Nicaragua is true. There's no voice for the religious not
Sandinistas.'
4. Talking points called 'Nicaragua's Sandinistas: A
Betrayed Revolution.' These talking points include the
subjects of security, human rights, elections, and
U.S./Nicaraguan relations.
5. 'A Precedent for 1984?' briefly explains the way Somoza
manipulated the 1974 Nicaraguan election and received 95% of
the votes, setting the stage for later upheaval by making it
apparent that a democratic end to the Somoza dynasty had become
impossible.
6. 'Freed Cuban: What Price Peace and Freedom?' is an
article by Andres Vargas Gomez, one of the 25 political
prisoners released by Castro this summer. Appearing in The
Wall Street Journal on July 13, 1984, the article clearly
illustrates the sad plight of the many political prisoners of
Cuba, regularly subjected to physical torture and commonly
executed.
7. Copy of two recent cables, the first contains Costa Rican
President Monge's declarations regarding his country's friendly
relations with the U.S., and the second contains speech
excerpts from the opening ceremony of the recent San Jose
conference of Foreign Ministers.
8. Two press clippings of recent trips to Seattle and
Cleveland, giving examples of the kinds of questions
Administration officials are commonly asked as they speak on
Central America in various regions of the country.
I hope these materials will be useful. If you do not have
a great interest in or need for materials on Central America,
please do not hesitate to request that your name be deleted
from our mailing list. The person to contact for that is Joy
Cothran, 632-6751.
Enclosures:
As stated.
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VNIWRSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
LARTH SCIENCES EUU.DING
JEREELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720
September 12, 1984
Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
When I read the New York Times I want to read The New York Times, not Barricada,
the official newspaper of the Sandinistas. Stephen Kinzer's article "Anti-
Sandinistas Said to Kidnap 2" (September 10) does little more than to pass on a
highly politicized government statement. Kinzer is a seasoned reporter and normally
does a good job covering Latin American news. He has interviewed many leaders of
the various anti-Sandinista groups so he should know who is who and where their
forces operate in Nicaragua.
Kinzer reports the Managua report that two Sandinista officials were kidnapped
north of Bluefields September S by "United States-backed insurgents" who are
"right-wing rebels." Nonsense. This sort of hyphenated intermediary journalism only
echos Sandinista symbols when the need is to clear up who is who and why these
things are happening.
The Indian force MISURASATA took the two Sandinista officials and they are
reported safe. MISURASATA insurgents are Indians and are not "right-wing rebels,"
nor are they left wing; they are Indians, Indian wing if one must wing it.
Nicaraguan Indians have experienced and have rejected both ends of the Western
political spectrum. MISURASATA is not a "United States-backed" group. U.S.
assistance was very small scale and short term and even that has ceased since May.
In fact, the three other insurgent groups--FDN, MISURA.and Pastora's FRS (Frente
Revolucionario Sandino)--have not received U.S. aid for 41 months. Without the
capacity of resupply, the nature of the insurgent groups' strategy is changing
inside Nicaragua; they are by necessity much more-se-If-sufficient, more in the
style of classic guerrilla warfare where border area sanctuaries and dependence
upon outside supplies are not requisites.
The reported recent kidnappings were done near the lower Rio Grande area, in
the heart of MISURASATA-controlled Indian territory. Since May local Indian insur-
gent forces have fought many small-scale battles and ambushes against Sandinista
army and militia units which escalated into the government's bombing and forced
relocation of Indian communities. In turn, MISURASATA forces attacked non-Indian
communities of La Cruz (two times) and Tortuguero. So the two Sandinista officials
in Kinzer's article were not just on the campaign trail, they entered a war zone of
intense conflict. And one of the officials is a member of Sandinista State Security.
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Why is it that news reporting focuses on alleged "contra" kidnappings, while
ignoring the several hundred civilian Indians and campesinos who have been taken
from their homes by government military and security forces and are listed as
"disappeared"? About 70 or 80 Indians have "disappeared" and the government has yet
to account for their whereabouts. This is about the same number of kidnapped people
as the Sandinistas claim have been kidnapped by the "contras." Where is Franklin
Blandford, age 27, "kidnapped" by Sandinista Security last October from the same
area where the two Sandinistas were reported to have been kidnapped last week? And
why haven't any Sandinista military officials been charged with the killings of
seven innocent Indian civilians at Walpasiksa, September 13, 1982? (Eloterio
Martinez, Sampson Martinez, Gonzalito Martinez, Arnulfo Matama, Alejandro Gonzalez,
Cardenas Leban, Farley Taylor.) Thirty-seven Indians arrested at the same time of
these witnessed killings were later released by a government judge for lack of
evidence to support the charge that they were "counterrevolutionaries."
If Kinzer and other reporters want to understand what's going on inside
Nicaragua they will have to do better than only to search for outside reasons
and Managua-supplied explanations. Government attacks against Indian communities
and the killing and kidnapping of Indian civilians have increased the size of Indian
insurgent forces and provoked responses in kind. Kinzer's story has the Managua
refrain that only the "contras" kill civilians. But in this story there are three
"wings" and three sides.
Sincerely,
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THE NEW YORK TIMBS, MONDAY, SEP7
ANTI-SANDINISTAS
SAID 1'0 KIDNAP 2
Managua Says Rightist Rebels
Have Abducted 80 Others
Since Beginning of July
Zly3TEPHEN l NZER
lpedW to t Now Tat T
BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Sept. 9-
Two local Sandinista leaders were ap-
parently kidnapped by Nicaraguan
rebels last week and Government offi-
cials here said today that they feared
both had been killed.
The reported abductions brought to
82 the number of people eved car-
ried off by United States-backed imur-
Bents since the begiorriog of July. the
officials said. They asserted that peo-
pie involved in Sandinista organiza-
tions were being targeted in an effort to
discourage residents from cooperating
with the Government.
One of the two Sandinista leaders re-
ported kidnapped, Ray Hooker, is a for-
mer university dean educated in the
United States. He had been chosen as a
Sandinista candidate for the new Na-
tional Assembly that is to be elected in
November, and was traveling from this
Atlantic coast city to the Indian village
of Karawala, about 70 miles north of
here, to his candidacy.
The other victim, Patrkda Delgado,
is a member of the regional Sandinixta
governing committee and was travel-
ing with Mr. Hooker to the village.
The captain of the small launch in
which they were traveling, Santiago
Mayorga. was also missing In the inci-
dent, whtcb occurred Wednesday. The
Nicaraguan Defense Ministry was
quoted as saying Friday that the three
had been abducted by 80 inurgents.
4 Nadia Have Sees FFmi
Of the 82 Nicaraguans reported kid-
napped by r4 iebeis since July,
the es of 4 were formd is the Escon-
dido River last mouth, but the fate of
the other 78 victims is unknown. Some
are believed to have been taken to rebel
camps in Costa Rica or Honduras.
Sandinista officers believe that
nearly 1,000 rebels, known as contras,
are scattered throughout southeastern
Nicaragua, a sparsely populated ex-
panse of swamps, jungles and tropical
rain forests. Over the last 10 days, they
have mounted a series of attacks.
On Aug. 30, a raiding party captured
and burned a barge used to haul food
and other goods to Bluefields from the
western part of the camtry. Three
crewmen aboard the barge were car-
tied off, and there has been no word of
their fate.
There is no road to connect Blue-
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killed In an ambush along with two
members of the atwo mw bead
of the cooperative Jadnto Vargas
~~ urged his neighbors to work oindals.
4.7be contras We to do two
said Harry Chaves, local
'They want to
terrorize people so they wW not was
with the revolutiansrT Government,
and at fotime they we r an affor seize
some territory. Taking Bhietields
would be their greatest triumph
in recent months, insurgents have
mounted several attacks in winch they
have made efforts to single out
and 1 s ers of pi andinista or-
gganizaattiow. Coordinators of Sandinista
block committees, youth gr OuP6.
have
bealth Centers and cooperatives been among the victims.
Mr. Bam, who maintained rela-
tions with Indians opposed to the Gov-
ernment, is among the most widely re-
spected citizens of Blue&-lds. He
graduated from Ohio University with a
degree in history, became assistant
Bean of humanities at the National Uni-
versity
named director of the Institute for the
Atlantic Coast, a Government agency.
.
administer ing' social services for in-
digenoss groups in the coast MOW-
The official Sandinista wsPaPe
Barricade charged ln which
Hooker's drushd~ tj Agency. the Central
has provided millions of dollars in cov-
ert aid to rebel grwps.
Report d Cuban Deaths Denied
spew r 7b Nw Ywk IMM
WASHINGTON, Sept. ! - The Nic&-
raguan
dismissed to a the Reagion Adnisstra
Nahas tions assertion that four seder Cuban
military advisers were killed in a rebel
air raid last Saturday in which two
Americans were killed.
g by the Van Saturday
MOM night t by
bete, accused Administration officials
of -lying," and reiterated earlier Nica-
raguanassertio0s that the only people
killed in the attack age a~
were
school in Santa Clara
and a cook.
The statement said the Administra-
tiou's portrayal of the situation in Cen-
tral America was based an an "insidi-
ous and systematic use of deceit."
"No amount of lying will help the
Reagan Administration to prevent the
Stst and the in,
people
d~ community from clearly
seeing the reality of the aggression of a
big power against a small nation," it
said.
The Administration has denied any Air smack or the
It's a I m
Fifth Avenue. White Plains, Manhasset, N lI
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Foreign Report
Published by The Economist
25 St James's Street, London SW I A I HG
1837 August 23, 1984
Contents
Soviet eyes on Pakistan
Inside Afghanistan
The orb'
Asecret Sandinist s ech
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America's non-firing missiles
Pointers
Sn Lanka 4M Israe
B-I against Stealth
A secret Sandinist speech
The Sandinist government in Nicaragua has been seriously embarrassed b% the
publication in the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia of a secret speech by one
of Nicaragua's nine comandantes, Bayardo Arce, to the central committee of the
small Nicaraguan Socialist party (PSN}-a a pro-Soviet Communist group-itt
Managua at the end of June. The co-ordinator of the Sattdinist Junta, Daniel
Ortega, has admitted the authenticity of the speech. which was discreetly t:tlx?-
recorded:
Arce's speech is reminiscent of some aspects of the secret speech of Maurice
Bishop about the goals of the revolution in Grenada (FOREIGN REPORT May
17th). Arce told the PSN representatives that the objective of Nicaragua's
revolution was to establish a one-party state on orthodox Marxist-Leninist lilies;
he stressed the need for unity between the Sandinists and the PSN; and he
suggested that the result of the presidential election on November 4th was
entirely predictable. Arce said:
We believe that the election must be used to secure a tour fur Sandinism. which is Ix?ing
questioned and stigmatised by imperialism. in ti-der to demonstrate that the
Nicaraguan people ... are for Marxism-Leninism. They will not overturn this vote by
force, as they did in Chile.
If it were not for the state of war forced on us ... the clettoral problem would be
something completely out of step in terms of uscfuhtess. What the revolution 11 -111\
needs is the power to take action. And this power to talc action is what ctmstitturs the
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essence of the dictatorship of the proletariat ... So the election is, from this point of
view, a hindrance, like a tttttuber of other things. .. But, from a realistic point of view,
these things are wealxm+ of the revolution in forwarding the building of socialism. So it
is useful for us, for example. to point to an entrepreneurial class and private
production in a mixed ccuttomy, while we get on with the strategic aspects ... The
important areas (of the economy) are under state control.
We are discussing ... first, the idea of putting an end to all this artifice of pluralism,
that there is a Socialist and Communist party, a Christian Socialist and a Social
Democrat party etc. which has been useful to us up to now. Now that has come to an
end.
Let the people vote for all the things the revolution has done. Let them vote for
literacy, adult education. confiscation, nationalisation of the banks and foreign trade,
free education; let them vote for Soviet-Cuban advisers, for revolutionary internation-
alism. Let them vote for all that.
The important thing for its about the election is the working out of the new
constitution .. which will enable us to form the judicial and political principles for the
construction of socialism. We are using an instrument, demanded by the bourgeoisie,
which disarms the ittteritatiuttal bourgeoisie, in order to form our own strategic
objectives.
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Foreign Report
Published by The Economist
25 St James's Street, London SW I A 1 HG
1838 September 6, 1984
Contents
Communism in the Seychelles
A secret Sandinist speech (2)'
An Afghan overview
Inside Estonia
Dead wood at the UN
Pointers
A secret Sandinist speech (2)
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In our last issue (FOREIGN REPORT, August 23rd), we published extracts of a
secret speech by a uu iii yr of the Sandinist junta, Bayardo Arce, explaining the
S.utdinist strategy futr Nit.u aqua. Arce is coordinator of the political conuui'sion
of the Sandinist From. Etc asked the allied Soxialist party, a Marxist-Leninist
group, to unite with the Sandinists after the election in November. Here are
some more tape-recorded extracts of Arce's speech:
Imperialism asks us three things: that we abandon interventionism; that we abandon
our strategic ties with the Soviet Union and the socialist community; and that we should
be democratic. We cannot stop being internationalists without stopping being
revolutionary. We cannot stop our strategic relations. This does not enter into any
consideration ...
But democracy, as they call it, bourgeois democracy, contains an element which we
can manage and obtain positive elements "for the construction of socialism in
Nicaragua ... The most important ... is the elaboration of a new constitution
because ... (it) will allow us to shape juridical and political principles for the
construction of socialism ... This new juridical framework will let us adopt a new
rhythm, more dynamic. That is the project which we will obtain from the electoral
process.
So in this context, in which the elections will let us be more clear in a series of things,
we ask what role will our allied forces play? The Socialist party is a Marxist-Leninist
party ... We have not declared ourselves-in a public and official way as Marxist-
Leninists ... We say: Do we have strategic differences with the Socialist party, or does
the Socialist party have differences with us? Isn't it time to make a single party? Why
are we communists putting on different shirts?
We ourselves have started to discuss this, but we invite you to discuss it too. Because,
if we wish, well, after the elections, we are going to drop the fiction that there is a
Socialist party which is Marxist-Leninist and there are those of the Sandinist Front,
who still have not taken off their shirt. This problem of identity in the electoral process
is absolutely secondary ... We are trying to avoid changing faces too much, avoiding
confusions: we don't talk about the aspect in depth ...
This is going to be the first experience in the construction of socialism with the
dollars of capitalism.
We still have not started to move the crowds (lurbas)-because the moment has not
yet arrived. We are concentrating our efforts on military matters ...
We must take advantage of this change, which the electoral press represents, to draw
positive profits: the unity of the Marxist-Leninists of Nicaragua. Thank you.
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tither Voices From Ni ca r
., t agua
WHOM TO DEUEVE7 Whom to
Intel? Whom to learn from? these guns,
tiara about Nicaragua nagged at me.
How could I know? The Reagan Admits-
istralisn presented one picture. Speak-
en under church auspices and most of
The literature that came across my desk
gave a totally diffe rent view.
Members of the Congress were
divided as were policy ana.'yW. Media
coverage was uneven at best. Mean?
while. a steady dream of witness star.-
menus - personal accounts by North
American visitors, mainly church pow
pie - formed a torrent of pro.
Sandinista, anti?Administratloa
sentiment.
The hint personal account I had heard
of a guided visit to Nicaragua was from
the major superior of a religious cotgre.
gallon I know. She returned, enuresis
tic about the course of the revolution
and convinced that the only problem Y
the U.S. policy of assuring those fighting
against the Sandinista regime. The lour
sounded highly programmed and prop
agandized to me. It had been arranged
under the auspices of the Sandinista
International Department.
But for my Mend, the trip had been a
deep personal experience of the living
Christianity of the revolution; and she
felt so strongly about it that she held
?Mee press conferences the day she
her return. By the time I had beard or
read a half dozen other such expert.
antes, however,I knew the "play" and
could anticipate the Bras.
I WAS INTRIGUED. What was
really happening In Nicaragua? I began
searching out information from other
points of view. One source was Nkars-
guan exiles who Ned their country when
the revolutionary process either loop
ardlsed their personal safety or
demanded what then sun 41 ,.as could
not assent to - or both. These people
did Jot seem to be talking about the
same place as the North American
visitors.
how she could leg him before he told
her what places his group would visit
next on their tour.
ThWSl ter understood well, howeve
the purpose of the lours - to present
the achievements of the government in
the most favorable Ugh and the United
States government In the word possible
light by exposing the visitors to persons
primed ahead of time in pieces that con-
vey the desired knage.
A couple of yews ago as opposition to
the Sall kta government intensified
and the cones r gained more support.
missionary Suers from Nicaragua came
up to the United Slates to peak for the
?alias, urging economic sssheuwe hit
the government and an end to United
Slats funding for covert activities
there. Their bask theme was that the
revolutionary govermmenM Is commit-
led to s trisch al justice. the option for
the poor, and genuine sell.
determination and has provided a cit.
mate for Christianity in tigrish.
Sopping short of saying that the gnv.
eminent Is Christina, one Sider admit-
ted. "1 don't have that deep an
anderdansing of MarzMm." Then she
added, "1 think that because of the
Church's participation in revolution, the
Marxists must reconsider the whole role
of Christianity In the revoktion abe."
indeed, we know that the role of the
Church. If not of Christianity. has been
and still Is a serious political consider-
ation for the government. At the heart
of the struggle going on between the
FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation
Frent) Party/government and the Nice-
regents bishops is a dash of views on
what the role of the Church should be.
The bishops - uncoopted and willing
to speak out the truthas they an it -
repreaen the .sty independent orpa0.
nation left with enough We and strength
lobe a serious challaige to the 11211.
Tfg DOTEAT OB IOMORA M 1978
brought the ovdrwhehmlng task to
rebuild the country - In Ind the lm-.
goy. shelter the homeless, bind up
wounds, teach the IOlteale, inoculate
agarld the deaths of children ... A ahdck, my companion admitted that the
Sister I had known before she went to description accurately ill her inpres,
When I was Invited to he a p vats. Nicaragua wrote that she and her co m- don of the bishops there. Eager to know
citizen observer of the Mai 6 election. mostly made the deeWoa to work to... Ad well4ntentioned, this Sister had
In El Salvador, l took the opportunity to ?. support the revolutionary ggvevpment, nevq heard that Archbishop Obando
go to Nicaragua. My purpose wastopes fMasysltratloo steletd alms Wes. Otheit' ' eomN' from-ti pods famft Is actually
core recent publications on the Church dedeated telIg1 t mode thlrsame putt ifith'tD~ jaodh. ? host'oppd/eel'
and the revolution and try to tall with side, and many saw goo NOW to make a Somosa and served as a rallying point
women religious who are not part of the dheinc ion between the one and the for winning over moderate elements to
tours and who do not write press
releases or speak to a North Americas
public. These are sisters in Nicaragua
who are willing to talk freely and are
grateful to be able to express their cow
cerns to someone they trust, someone
who will Olen without making link
lives more difficult.
other. The government- leaders the revolution, understands democracy
expelled and sill expect that Chrbtlata and admires it, has been a target of Sat.
be "rewhtdonrp." Those Suers who dinista abuse and rudeness on the part
try to be "non polItial," are considered of some of the North American visitors
"counterrevolutionary," as are those he was gracious enough to receive to
who support their bishops' can for openness,
national recondlation.
None of the persons 1 talked with who Somose's meimoM express co temp
The first missionary doer I met In Ni,. were Critical of the govarmme it of Nica? for thti bishops because he could not
aragua noted that I was not on a Sew ragua wish a stun to aonsoelrtmo - a manipulate them. He was especially bit-
dinlsta tour. With a seine of humor, she Somoza t pe m e. Nor do they seem to . tar toward Obando, whom he accused
recited the places I would have been be looking for special privileges for of Betsy one of the "terrorists" blow
seeing It on a tour. Yes, the Not was themaelm The truth is they do not rdfasj, darling him El Commands t. Sts,
familiar by now. A pied she know want to be "used" by anyone, neither . ter Mary was grateful to hear this new
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This is the last In a eerie of back.
greaed articlee eomssiselened by
The Pilot which .xasnfrnd the crisis
In Nicaragua and Its effect on the
Church In that Central American
natl.n. -Ed.
powers. and certhinly not the Sandini .
tas. They want a Nicaraguan solution to
their problems, and they want to we the
promises of the revolution kept. They
find N disheartening that their new San?
dinista oppressors have been winning
the propaganda war for North America
and Western Europe.
One soft-spoken Nicaraguan Sister
pave me this message to being back:
"North Americans should not take for
granted that the news they get from
Nicaragua Is true. There's no voice for
the religious not SandinHW." There
was a sadness In her voice as she
emphasized. "North American religious
come down here and we lint one side."
Elsewhere. a longtime missionary in
Nicaragua told me the poor people with
whom she works ask her how it is that
the North American religious are so
fooled!
ONE REASON is that we receive a he
of misinformation or inadequate Infor-
mation. A recent experience of mine
Illustrates this point. During an Inter.
community retreat on Long bland, the
subject of Nicaragua came up one day at
hutch. When I mentioned that I had
been there last May, a religious, whom I
will call Sister Mary, began saying what
she presumed I thought above the situ.-
tion. The Sister was quoting what she
had heard from the peaceand-patice
office of her, congregation, which, in
turn. had received it from a larger inter.
community office. it was a real surprise
to her to learn that I had a different
viewpoint.
pursuing the topk, I outlined the der.
s sty-st of the Nicaraguan bishops, asp.-
daily Archbishop Obanda bourgeois,
reactionary, "Old Church," allied with
the wealthy, cozy with Soorosa. uncar-
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Now that the Nicaraguan Wshops' Ear
w pastoral an reconciliation is avada-
ble. I hope Shaer Mary and alias will
road the text. (It?s barely three ages.)
So many. as them. have busthyly
raged on the hdormation dispatched by
c rtai reigk e or quasMelyMwt ce,?
ors that deal with Nicaragua and other
/obal rancerns Involving United States
loft puNcy.
TThis Eater putural. to which Ike San.
diista leaden reacted violently. was
prhted in (h July 2L 19S4 - throe
months after it was read at the Easter
Masses in Nicaragua. A wfdelyread
Catholic paper printed un May 11 a sentence news item That this psatur )
had be.. Issued, then a month later, an
fttatrord article an the critkpe of it by
the ddepW of the Jesuits in Nicaragua
with his emwNun. For those who read
the Congressional Record Senator
Edward Kennedy had the fait lest of the
pastoral placed M the May 22 I saw. At
that time. the Senator stated
forthrightly:
When it comes to dealing with
their cities In the Catholic Church Mr
Nicaragua. the Sandinistas are flunk-
leg the tat ... the bishops ... called
he national healing, reconciliation,
and dialogue among the people of
Nicaragua. The Sandinistas' response
..Lifted the bishops' pastoral mes?
sage criminal and accused the bisl-
ep of being Instruments of the
eomnterrevolutionarls. This Y not
the language of tolerance or mAttioos
freedom.
Does the organisation that supplies
you with materials on Nicaragua pro
via you with the information you
rquaetl Or does it respond as did the
Ltd... oft a Central American HWur-
l a11aNNMa at Georgdtown toll request
by Archbishop Obando s famous EJster
hemly d 1503. which was critical of the
Swm1nb s.?Aaying she did mot'eauafy
daal with Church matters. the director
hntba remarked that it wasmt worth a
Tdat to the Central American Hoar-
c t InMNu a in Manger to request the
homily. (Scott Walter, "Nicaragua's
CbMarleadara.'? C. hoNdsm in Cr"
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AS WELTRY TO FIND OUT the truth
.A4tte4xlbr48..le1 as remember how
d ocok a le for the Nicaraguan bishops
N hors t air word heard by m who
asad to her N. Perhaps we should Moist
an hawing what they have said and not
'ihnpty udy on the widely reported reac?
Ue,s to tbdr words.
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Nicaragua's Sandinistas: A Betrayed Revolution
Background
-- The vast majority of Nicaraguans, including labor,
students, academics, business, and farmers, collaborated in
the overthrow of Somoza; support for the Sandinista
National Liberation Front (FSLN) was indeed high in July
1979.
-- In 1979 and 1980, the U.S. attempted to build constructive
relations with the Sandinista government by providing
economic assistance and diplomatic support to the
Nicaraguan government.
-- The U.S. supplied Nicaragua with approximately $118 million
of economic assistance between July 1979 and April 1981.
-- Peace Corps assistance for Nicaragua was offered; however,
the Government of National Reconstruction (GRN) refused it.
-- In the 18 months after it came to power, the Sandinista
leadership expanded ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union,
to support foreign guerrilla groups in neighboring
countries, and to build up their military to levels
unprecedented in the Central American region.
-- Even as recently as June of 1982, the U.S. government
offered a $5.1 million economic assistance grant to
Nicaragua's private sector. In August 1982, however, the
the Sandinista regime refused to allow further
disbursements of the grant, thus preventing much needed
foreign exchange from reaching the private sector.
Security
-- Nicaragua maintains the largest contingent of foreign
military advisers in the area: between 2,500 and 3,500
Cuban military and security aavisecs; at least 100 Soviet
and other east bloc military advisers; and about 50
advisers from Libya and the PLO.
-- There are also 4,500 to 6,500 Cuban civilian advisers, an
increasing number of whom are young males who have
completed military training.
-- Nicaragua continues to increase its army and its stores of
weapons. It now has over 100,000 persons under arms,
including the regular army, reserves, and militia.
-- Nicaragua continues to receive weapons from the Soviet
bloc, augmenting its already tormiaaole arsenal of tanks,
heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers, and multiple
rocket launchers.
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Significantly, Nicaragua maintains several battalions of
medium battle tanks which give it an offensive capability.
The Sandinistas continue to assist guerrillas in other
countries, primarily the FMLN/FDR in El Salvador, through
shipments of arms and supplies, training, and provision of
command-and-control centers in Nicaragua.
On May 8, an unarmed Honduran helicopter was shot down over
Nicaraguan territory by Sandinista forces. The Government
of National Reconstruction then decorated the Sandinista
unit commander who shot down the helicopter.
Human Rights
The Sandinistas' drive to dominate Nicaraguan political
life has led to a pattern of repeated violations of human
rights. These include their brutal treatment of the
Miskito Indians, attacks on religious groups, prior
censorship of the press, and widely criticized 'special
tribunals.'
A State of Emergency continues, allowing the government to
maintain prior censorship and to suspend the rights to free
assembly and habeas corpus. .
'People's Tribunals' have been established. Some people
have been sentenced by the tribunals to as long as 30 years
in prison.
In late 1981 and early 1982, the Sandinistas forcibly
relocated approximately 10,000 Miskito Indians from their
homelands to distant resettlement camps.
In late December 1983, more than 1,000 Miskito Indians fled
Nicaragua for Honduras; they were accompanied by two U.S.
bishops, one of whom the Sandinistas had already announced
had been killed by Miskito guerrillas. The two bishops
escorted the Indians under their own free will.
Interviewed later, some of those who fieu said tnat
Sandinista troops had tortured Miskitos, reduced their food
rations, and had jailed persons arbitrarily.- -
Heavy Government of National Reconstruction censorship led
La Prensa, the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, not
to publish-on at least 11 occasions so far in 1984.
Some censored articles in 1984 concerned Government of
National Reconstruction attempts to challenge the right of
the Catholic Church hierarchy to select teachers for
Catholic schools. On April 23, the Government of National
Reconstruction censored the Catholic Church's pastoral
letter issued on Easter Sunday (April 22).
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-- The Government of National Reconstruction nas made* much of
its amnesty for Miskitos, but the truth is that since it
was offered, more than a thousand Miskitos have left
Nicaragua, and only a handful have returned. At least
16,000 Miskitos have fled Nicaragua since 1981.
-- The exodus continues. In April 1984 some 600 Miskitos fled
to refuge in Honduras.
-- The existence of political prisoners, arbitrary arrest and
disappearances have been documented by Nicaragua's
independent Permanent Commission for Human Rights.
-- On July 10 the Sandinista regime expelled 10 foreign
Catholic priests following a demonstration led by Managua
Archbishop Obando y Bravo in support of Rev. Luis Amado
Pena. Pena is presently being confined in a seminary by
Nicaraguan authorities. There are press reports that the
Sandinistas may try Pena before 'special tribunals' for
alleged 'counterrevolutionary activities.'
Elections
-- The Sandinistas promised the Nicaraguan people ana the OAS
to hold free elections and to support pluralismn
nonalignment, and a mixed economy.
-- Once in power, the Sandinistas postponed elections and only
recently have taken measures to hold elections in November
1984.
-- Sandinista spokesmen have said that Nicaragua will not have
'bourgeois elections,' and that elections will only
'confirm the Sandinista Revolution,' raising doubts about
the Sandinistas commitment to genuinely free elections.
-- The Government of National Reconstruction has lowered the
minimum voting age for the upcoming-November elections to
16 years, thus incorporating youths enfranchising by the
Sandinista youth organizations.
-- The Sandinistas still nave outstanding issues for elections:
(1) The State of Emergency, which has given the
Government of National Reconstruction arbitrary power
over key facets of society.
(2) Equal access to media by the political parties during
the electoral campaign and the abolition of prior
censorship.
(3) Ability to participate and to organize political
activities freely.
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(4) Extent that opponents will be able to criticize
government policies and not face harrassment.
(5) The kind of international observers there may be, and
their scope of activities.
(6) The exclusion of armed opposition leaders from any
participation in political life, including elections.
It is important that elections allow full, equal and
unhindered participation and not be just a facade for
continued control by one group.
When the ruling political party controls the army, the
police, the media, the courts, and various aspects of daily
life through neighborhood organizations, fair elections can
hardly be assured.
U.S. - Nicaraguan Relations
The Q.S. has four objectives in its policy toward Nicaragua:
(1) An end to Nicaraguan support for guerrilla groups in
neighboring countries;
(2) Severance of Nicaraguan military and security ties to Cuba
and the Soviet bloc;
(3) Reduction of Nicaragua's military strength to levels teat
would restore military equilibrium in the area; and
(4) Fulfillment of original Sandinista promises to support
democratic pluralism and respect human and civil rights.
-- These concerns could be met without any change of
government in Managua. The Sandinistas are aware of U.S.
concerns and those of their neighbors.
-- These objectives are also reflected-?in the 21 principles
adopted last September by the participants, including
Nicaragua, in the Contadora process.
The U.S. has made its position clear, in its frequent
direct contacts with the Nicaraguan government, the most
recent of which were Secretary Sultz's June 1 visit to
Managua and Ambassador Shlaudeman's June 25-27 talks with
Nicaraguan Vice-Foreign Minister Tinoco. The Sandinistas
know that the U.S. would be responsive to positive steps
the Sandinista regime might take.
July 1984
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A PRECEDENT FOR 1984?
In 1972-74, Anastasio Somoza stepped aside from the
presidency of Nicaragua, continuing as commander of the
National Guard and, after the 1972 earthquake, as President of
the National Emergency Committee.
In 1974, disregarding the advice of friends who thought the
time had come for the family to withdraw from active politics,
Somoza decided to become President again. To do so, he had the
Constitution amended and barred nine out of ten opposition
parties from the presidential election. Nicaragua's Roman
Catholic Bishops warned in a pastoral letter that these
electoral manipulations amounted to "legal war".
Under those conditions, Somoza received a smashing 95 per
cent of the votes: 218,156 votes to 11,997 for Edmundo Paguega
Irias of the Conservative Party. But the victory was pyrrhic.
Many Nicaraguans, including former close associates of Somoza,
became convinced a democratic end to the Somoza dynasty had
become impossible.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1984
Freed Cuban: What Price Peace and Freedom?
When Fidel Castro released me and 24
other political prisoners-using the Rev.
Jesse Jackson as a front to take credit for
this "humanitarian gesture"-some people
may have gotten the impression that this
was the act of a regime with a sincere
concern for peace and human rights. Al-
though we understand Mr. Jackson's hap-
piness at having brought to the U.S. a
group of political prisoners, those political
prisoners were a silent testimony to the
brutalities of a system that must not be
legitimized. Perhaps it is possible to under-
The Americas
by Andres Vargas Gomez
At La Cabana we could not see the execu-
tions, though we could bear the orders to
fire and the screams of the victims every
night. At the Isle of Pine, where 300 men
permanently lived in one compound with
two toilets and one shower, prisoners were
killed in front of our eyes.
Recently Castro has switched from fo-
cusing on physical torture to psychologi-
cal torture. Most prisoners agree the psy-
chological torture is worse. For more than
six years, political prisoners have been
held completely incommunicado. They are
not allowed to receive letters or visits from
their parents, wives or children. They are
locked up the whole day in their tiny
cells-less than 5 feet by 10 feet for two
men. They can walk through the balls of
their area only during the brief moments
time Castro wishes to use political pris.
oners as a form of merchandise to buy
respectability. "Black-market operations"
that might further Castro's aim of making
political prisoners a line of business for his
government only sacrifice the dignity and
principles of the men who are released. To
see Castro as operating from a moral per-
spective, even if we do it with a humani-
tarian motivation, is not only a political
mistake but a great moral offense, as I
said when we arrived at the Washington
airport.
Castr o's immoral maneuvers certainly
do not have the sincere purpose of solving
human rights problems in Cuba or looking
for peace in Central America. We have to
be very clear about that. We all want
peace. But we don't want a peace that has
the implication of letting all the tyrants of
the world flourish. We don't want a peace
that would allow the people of other coun-
tries to suffer horribly. Fidel Castro is not
looking for peace. He is looking to estab-
lish tyranny and oppression around the
world because be is a Communist, and a
Communist will never truly desire peace
from free nations, even though he may talk
about peace.
If we are sincere about our desire to
liberate political prisoners under Castro's
heavy hand, it will not be carried out by
Castro's invitation to participate in a
moral offensive. Through a serious mobi-
lization of the world's public
against Castro's government, combined
with hard economic and financial sanc-
tions, it may be possible to paralyze the
inhumane actions of this Communist re-
gime. Only then could there be a possi-
bility of liberating the rest of the political
prisoners in Cuba.
In which dinner and breakfast are served.
stand the spirit of Castro's government by
analyzing the conditions in which we Cu-
ban political prisoners live within the jails
and prisons of Communist Cuba.
All of those released-without excep-
tion-had served their sentences several
years before. Instead of being released at
the completion of their sentences, accord-
ing to the most basic principles of penal
law, they were arbitrarily retained in
prison without any legal procedure or pos-
sibility of going before a tribunal to ex-
press their views.
Despite the 25 years that have elapsed
since Castro took power, more than a thou-
sand of the political prisoners sentenced to
long jail terms remain confined in a cruel
penal system. These are people who might
have said something once against Castro's
regime, In those far away days when he
was just crystallizing his betrayal of demo-
cratic ideals.
In the 1960s and 1970s, we political pris-
oners were subject to physical torture. At
the La Cabana prison and also one on the
Isle of Pine. I and my fellow prisoners
were usually beaten twice daily during in-
spections. Executions were quite common.
They never have the opportunity of enjoy-
ing a little bit of sun in the open air of the
prison yard. They have no access to books,
magazines, radio or television.
Even inside the prisons, the rule of non-
communication is applied with extreme
rigor. Nobody is permitted to talk to the
political prisoners unless authorized by pe-
nal authorities. If a common prisoner-one
who serves us meals or lives in nearby
cells-dares to talk to a political prisoner,
he will suffer severe punishment for 21
days and, additionally, will lose his right
to receive visitors for many weeks.
Medical care for political prisoners is
pathetic. Despite the fact that most po-
litical prisoners suffer from various ill-
nesses that require steady treatment the
medicines these prisoners need in fre-
quently suspended without reason. General
medical care (dental, etc.) Is very limited,
and specialized medical care is non-exis-
tent. For example, many times prisoners
got sick from eating the only meat weTe-
ceived-outdated, Russian tanned meat.
But medical care or treatment is usually
not provided for such ailments.
We must think about these outrages,
which never cease but only increase, each
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Mr. Vargas Gomez was in Cuban
prisons/or t ) years and seven months, and
was under home arrest for one year and
six months until his release two weeks
ago.
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'IN CONVECTION W1n !Nis DESIRES GREATER SULIDARIC
PRESENCE OF TIE C1 ACIES OF WESTERN EUROPE, IT IS
FITTING TO OFFER CLARIFICATION. WE CANT TDEM To HELP
US To FIND PEACE. To SILO AND STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY
IN CENTRAL AIERICN. IT IS NOT THE INTENT OF COSTA RICA
MAT Sp0 GREATER PRESENCE REPLACE TIE Sa I DM I TY THAT
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NATIONS. AND 110 iESS SO MAD WE PANE ME 'SERIOUS
NIS1ANE OF CAUSING .S.7 FRICTION BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN
DEMOCRACIES 40 OTUEC COUNTRIES THAT RAVE ALREADY
5110101 TIEII SaIOiJITY IN 01111 STRUGGLE To PRESERVE
THE PEACE ANN TIE -ZEDON VE COSTA RICANS ENJOT.'
(TRANSLATION Is IV 5001
- EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR THE '70TAILE EFFORTS OF THE
CONTA00NA GROUP If 'THE SEARS FOR A NEGOTIATED
SOLUTION... TRYING To PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE EAST/
WEST CONFLICT TO CEITNAL AMERICA...'
- NOTES (RAT THE LISION CONFERENCE ENTITLED 'DEMOCRATIC
CHALLENGE IN LATIN JIIERICA' LAST JUNE VAS INDICATION OF
PORTUGAL'S SUPPORT FOR INITIATIVES a11E0 AT :BEATING
AS 'ATMOSPHERE OF COIF10ENCE, DIALOGUE 4110 NO SONFRONTA-
TIOR...'
-- EMPNASILES NEE3 F01 "VEV INTERNATIONAL !COICMIC ORDER'
THAT JILL 111I10 :; . ENO THE '10HOPOL1 OF POLITICAL AND
ECONOIIIC P011ER .CNIE':ED 4T 711E EXPENSE OF SOUMTRIES
SUFFERING 'ROM :M=IC :1DEITEDNESS...'
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IITER0PENOENCE OF CENTRAL 41NERICMS.
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VALUABLE OOCINEIT' %SIGS 'HAS SEEN PRESENTED FOR Tilt
CONSIDERATION OF 3RR SOVERNNENTS.-
FOLLOVING ME MAJOR POINTS OF INTEREST:
PRESIDENT 'LARGE COSTA RICAI:
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111191E OEI!OCTATIC ULYEL?l'MEHT AND :1 IIASIZED TO WNE
EUROPEAIIS MAT TITS PROVES (NAT OEMOCPACY .=IS IN
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NEUTRAL STATUS 10 MINED COIM'LICTS INS 'ADVOCATED TOE
DEPARTURE FRO SEOTRAL AMERICA OF ALL FOREIGN 11L 1 TART
AN SECURITY FACTORS, REGARDLESS OF TIltIR NATIONALITY
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IN THE EC, INCLUOING INTER ALA INCREAMED CREDIT :01
EXPANSES TRACE 11TI1 EUROPE, FINANCING FO :EETRAL
NIERFCM DAN OF ECR:A.11C INTEGRATION. i.NC GREATER
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MADIETS.
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ANO RECONCILIATION. :IN OFECIFICALLY REFERS '0 TIE
TEN'S 'FILL SUPPORT :OR '11E INITIATIVE OF INC :ONTAOORA
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a TIME BASIS OP A ORAFT...PRESENSEO Ti TIME CENTRAL
ARNICAN STATES.
- CINTASONA PROCESS REPIKKNTS TIE REST MOPE FON A
LASTING SOLVTIa TO THE IIOBLEMS OP CENTRAL AMERICA...
AM 'IT IS OUP CANNIEST YISN ;NAT TI4S1 CONCERNED VILL
NAVE TIE CONIIAGI ANN 'ISTU THE SPIRIT OF :NSTICE AM
RECONCILIATION NECESSARY TO MIN T11S GREAT EFFORT TO
FINK FRDITIU T/NOOGN TIRE SIGNAT/RE MIS FAITNFIIL
IMPLEMENTATION OF A C01/NENENSIVE AGREEMENT BASED
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PRESENCE IN tic aKik WII511 RECa*3 TO AORD FORCE
NOR ELIMINATE LE61n1ATE FOREIGN iahINRRENCE IN TIE
INTIRNK ARRIVES OF ANTRAL AMERICAN STATES.
-- S[PILVEOA KC UEN/S SIX 7ECIFIC STEPS IV THE EC
TO STNENGTNEN REGIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND TRADE.
TMEY VERY CLOSELY PAB:LLEL THOSE SUGGESTED ST FOREIGN
MINISTER ANDRADE OF 71ATEHALA.
- EC MENDERS 'ARE REAOT.NITNIN TKIR CAPABILITIES. TO
S/PPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE COONTNIES OF THE REGION TO
ACHIEVE AN CONSOLIDATE PEACE.-
- POLITICAL TENSIONS NEIQTENID BY ECONOMIC SITUATIONS...
CAUSE SOCIAL INSTABILITT...IS AEA OF ECONOMIC OEYELOP-
IENT, EC CAN PLAY 'PARTICULARLY ACTIVE NILE IN HELPING
TO SUPPORT AN UNDERPIN BOTH TIME PROCESS OF PACIFICATION
AND PEACE ITSELF HIES ACRIEVED'
- 'COMIRINITY FIRMLY SUPPORTS EFFORTS TOWARD INTEGRATION
IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND TANS TO GIVE THEN EVERY POSSIBLE
ASSISTANCE.'
- COMMUNITY IS AVARE OF DETERIORATION IN ECONOMIC
AM ;OCIK SITUATION IN CENTRAL AMEIICA...ANO IS READY
TO CONTINUE AND DEVELOP FORTNER ALREADY EXISTING FORMS
OF COOPERATION ANO TO :101 SUFFICIENT IMAGINATION TO
ESTALLISI RELATIONS IN IEU FIELDS.
-- READY TO CONTRIBUTE TO 'OUR EFFORTS TO INCREASE
EXPORTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA TO EUROPE.
- CLOSER COOPERATION /ETVEEN NISINESS UNOERT2NINGS AM
STRERCTRENING OF EUROPEAN INVESTMENT COULD FLAT A
SIGNIFICANT PART 13 TIME OEVELOPI1IIT OF THE 4E;ION.
-- FROM THE BEGINNING, THE CONTACORA EFFORT RAS SEEN
ONIOED BY a RECOGNITION TRAT FINDING A :7LUTION TO
TIE ECONOMIC/SOCIAL PROSLEMS OF TIME REGION IS TIE KEY
TO CREATING A FRAMEIIORN OF REGIONAL SECURITY AM TTUAL
RESPECT AND CONFIOENCE.
- 11011 THERE IS A COHERENT AND COPLETE COLLECTION OF
SPECIFIC AGREEMO1TS TO 'E[T TIE SECURITY PROEMS.
STRVIGTNEN THE POLITICAL I NST I MI OIS AN PROMOTE
COOPERATIIO FOR EC7IOMIC 00 SOCIAL OEVELOPTENT.
- TIE ACTH IS A DRAFT PSOVECTOI FOI A ?01PIEHENSIVE
SOLUTION ARREGLO GLOIAIi MICA TAKES INTO ACCOUNT
TIME POLITICAL JNDERSTA1INGS AND ;UR101CAL :WITNENTS
PREVIOUSLY IEGOTIATED UT TIME CENTRAL AMERICAN
GOVERNMENTS THEMSELVES.
- MAT CONGRATULATE OURSELVES FOR TILE ACCEPTANCE 'JNIA
THE ACTH NAS RECEIVED FROM RIGN AUTHORITIES IN CENTRAL
AMERICA.
TIME ACTH ALSO CONTAINS PROVISION FAVORING CENTRAL
AMERICAN INTEGRATION.
- IT PROSC11IES COERCION IN ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND
OISCIIHINATORY PRACTICES.
- THE USE RE FORCE IS A FAL_E AND COSTLY ALTERNATIVE
TO OIPLOMAT:C !NEGOTIATION.
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Diplomat says press is naive
By Don Tewkesbury
P-I Repotler
A State Department expert on
Latin American affairs yesterday
criticized "some elements of the
American press" for naively accept-
Ing fraudulent Cuban propaganda
reports about events in Central
America.
"Cuba Is behind a massive disin?
formation campaign aimed at the
Western press - much of it floated
through Mexico City," Otto J. Reich
said at a meeting with members of
the Post-Intelligencer editorial
board.
Cuba has had more success
Influencing the American media than
the State Department has because
"many reporters seem more willing
to believe those opposed to the U.S.
than those supporting the U.S.."
Reich said. He is a State Department
special adviser for diplomacy In
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Reich said he recently testified
before a congressional committee to
respond to a New York Times article
"that contained 22 factual errors"
about the alleged failure of land
reform M Ell Salvador.
which controls the government in
Nicaragua, is "establishing the basis
for a totalitarian dictatorship. They
haven't done It yet, because they
lack the resatrres," he said. "Their
tactics are fascist whether they are
Marxist-Leninist or whatever they
are called.
"If nothing else. Nicaragua is
exporting violence In the region,
including providing arms to guerril-
las M E Salvador. "
Reich said Americans tradition-
ally "have been slow to recognize
aggression." He said World War 11
atrocities occurred "because people
here are basically decent and didn't
believe such things could happen.
And we still don't want to believe it.
We supported the revolution in Cuba
and we didn't believe It could turn
sour so quickly."
'Regloniql negotiations'
However. Reich believes United
States military Intervention in Nica-
ragua Is unnecessary.
He expressed hope that this
country will succeed In promoting
''regional, rather than bilateral, ne-
gotiations" and that Congress will
budget the funds necessary to pro.
mote United States Interests In all
Central American countries.
taken In the Western Hemisphere He Is not optimistic about the*
and - despite serious obstacles Nov. 4 Nicaraguan election. If it
- posed by Its opponents - It has been a
I
i
Lack resources
'"The Ell Salvador program Is the
most radical land reform ever under.
t s set up now.
t Will
ROBERT OsGIU.1OIP-i PHOTO working and It is going ahead." "petal"s as
Otto J. Reich yesterday criticized the Western press for Reich said, be e than an election each
In E Fast t Germany or Cuba," Reich
ac?eptinq Cuban propegande on events in Central America. He said the Sandinista Party, said.
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