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From: Harel Barzilai <harelb@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:30 PDT
Subject: Nicaragua: "A Faustian Bargain"
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1473800282:000:2947
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!harelb    Aug 18 15:30:00 1992


/* Written  4:02 pm  Aug 17, 1992 by rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu in cdp:misc.activism. */
/* ---------- "Nicaragua: "A Faustian Bargain"" ---------- */
/** reg.nicaragua: 111.0 **/
** Topic: More on "A Faustian Bargain" **
** Written 10:30 am  Aug 17, 1992 by anndc in cdp:reg.nicaragua **
Westview Press has published a new book on Nicaragua's 1990
elections, "A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the
Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold
War Era," by William I. Robinson.
 
Roger Morris, former National Security Council staff member
during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, writes: "Once in a
great while, Americans get a glimpse of American foreign policy
as the rest of the world views it. 'A Faustian Bargain' provides
one of those rare moments. William Robinson reveals the hidden
history of subtle and not-so-subtle U.S. intervention in the
ostensibly 'free' Nicaraguan elections and in the process holds
up a shattering mirror on Washington's fraud, deceit, and
hypocrisy. The result is far more than a well-documented, finely
written case study of U.S. manipulation and oppression in the
Western Hemisphere. In the era of worldwide cable news,
international commissions, and election 'observers,' the old
methods of control have given way to less obvious techniques that
are more presentable but no less savage in result. This book is
not only a stunning portrait of the all-too-recent past but also
a warning of a possible tragic future in inter-American
relations." 
 
From the book: "A penetrating analysis of the controversial U.S.
role in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections--the most closely monitored
in history--this book exposes the intervention in the electoral
process of a sovereign nation by the Central Intelligence Agency,
the Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy,
and private U.S.-based organizations.
     Robinson begins by tracing the evolution of U.S. foreign
policy in recent decades and reviewing U.S.-Nicaraguan relations
since the Carter administration. He then describes specific
aspects of the 'electoral intervention project,' bringing to
light the clandestine activities of U.S. officials. Finally, he
examines the implications of such an undertaking for U.S. foreign
policy and for social change in the Third World in the post-cold
war era, arguing that it is a dangerous harbinger of a new
interventionism conducted under the pretext of promoting
democracy.
     Drawing on an extensive array of confidential documents and
on interviews with representatives from U.S. and foreign
government agencies, private organizations, and anti-Sandinista
groups in Nicaragua, the author offers a chilling account of a
foreign policy venture that was at the very least duplicitous and
quite possible illegal as well."  
 
For order information, write to: Westview Press, 5500 Central
Ave., Boulder, Colorado, 80301-2847.
 

** End of text from cdp:reg.nicaragua **
From: rone@girtab.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Latin Americans for Clinton?
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:17:40 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <1992Aug18.161727.13162@afit.af.mil> dsonnier@afit.af.mil (David L Sonnier) writes:
>You left one out.
>5.  Increase government spending so that by 1996 the federal debt is
>$25,000,000,000,000.00 instead of just $4,000,000,000,000.00.  
>Congress (Check bouncers, middle-of-the-night-pay-raises, etc.) spends
>money, not the president.  Congress opposed President Bush's balanced
>budget amendment, as well as every other attempt to reduce federal 
>spending.  And congress is controlled by Democrats.  They can't wait
>to get their hands on a president who will go along with their tax-and-
>spend philosophy of solving problems with "programs" instead of through
>encouraging free enterprise.

Well, maybe if Bush had submitted a balanced budget, the congress wouldn't have
to play it all by ear, hm?  

What the hell is tax-and-spend philosophy that Republicans keep crowing 
(together with "liberal")?  If you tax, you spend.  I thought that was a
normal thing.  It's what you spend on that matters.  Like the ENVIRONMENT 
and EDUCATION, rather than 'invisible' bombers that don't work.  Maybe if
the environment/education president cared more about the environment and
the education of future citizens rather than the current state of the
rest of the world, he'd actually get reelected.  Plus the country would 
be a LOT better off.

And keep this out of s.c.l-a.  Followups set accordingly.

5150
From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Electronic Matchmaker
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 01:39:12 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Latin American women, having a problem finding a Latin American man?  
I am about to launch a free electronic matching service on Usenet.  
Thanks to the imbalance of men to women on Usenet, more guys than 
gals have expressed an interest so far.  If you would like to see the 
fifth draft of my questionnaire so we can alter it to also fit 
women's needs as well as men's, either send me mail or look at the 
copy I posted in alt.personals.  
 
This service is serious and I already have 280 men and 155 women 
signed up so far.  The site of the service has already been selected 
and programming has begun.
 
I should point out that this questionnaire really, really, really, 
needs some more input on CULTURES.  I need some questions to make sure
that matches are compatible culturally.
 
                                                            Eric Klien
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 15 Aug 92 09:19 PDT
Subject: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLE
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1473800270:000:2651
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Aug 15 09:19:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLE

/* Written 12:10 am  Aug 15, 1992 by newsdesk in
cdp:ips.englibrary */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all
rights reserved.  Permission to re- print within 7 days of
original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: EL SALVADOR: ''TRUE JUSTICE'' CALLED FOR IN JESUIT
KILLINGS

san salvador, aug 12 (ips) -- a top jesuit official has called for
the release of two soldiers condemned for the 1989 murder of six
jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, saying the
true intellectual authors of the crime remain free.

''we do not want to be accomplices to an injustice that lays all
the blame on just two of the accused,'' the central american
director of the jesuit order, jose maria tojeira, said on
wednesday, while asking for amnesty for the two officers.

the killings occurred on the grounds of the ''jose simeon canas''
central american university on nov. 15, 1989 in the midst of a
massive anti-government offensive launched by the farabundo marti
liberation front (fmln).

the convicted officers are colonel guillermo banavides, former
director of el salvador's military academy, and lieutenant yussy
rene mendoza, accused of burning documents relating to the
military's participation in the assassinations.

both were sentenced to 30 years in prison, following an october
1991 trial, in which six other soldiers were acquitted.

in his statement, tojeira said a thorough and honest investigation
was needed to discover and punish the authors of the crime.

according to peace accords signed between the government and fmln
in january, the jesuit killings, along with other notorious human
rights violations, will be investigated by a ''commission of
truth.''

the commission is made up of former colombian president belisario
betancur, former venezualan foreign minister reinaldo figueredo
and u.s. judge thomas buergenthal.

the commission will spend six months investigating human rights
abuses perpetrated in the course of the country's 12 year civil
war.

in addition, since may, another ad hoc commission made up of three
salvadorans, has been investigating the conduct of some 2,188
military officials as part of the plan to ''clean up'' the armed
forces.

tojeira considers both commissions important, but complained that
they have not been given enough time or support to truly
investigate the role of the military in human rights violations.

''they have done a good job, but they still need more time to
investigate, as the military is implicated in so many cases,'' the
priest said. (end/ips/trd/so/bf-sfi/eli/kb/92)
----
From: jy2y1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Ton~o Scherer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Friendship Club (shortcut to heaven)
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:05:46 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Aug19.153637.58265@cc.usu.edu>,
slbxk@cc.usu.edu writes: 
> 
> 
>                    FRIENDSHIP CLUB
> 
>                    From the Editor
>            -------------------------------
> 
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
>      We are all far away from home, home town, home city, home
> motherland. We each have the same dreams, dreaming about pursuing
> a higher degree in education, accomplishing a wonderful task in
> our own life, getting a satisfying job, climbing to a higher
> class in life... But we feel lonely, terribly lonely, we need
 ^^^^^^				^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

		Lonely, I'm Mr. lonely ... trala, la, la
                Higher class in life? Where do I sign up?
		Are there any smoking rooms in heaven?

> friends, and love. Loneliness is like a killer, threatening us
> every friday evening, saturday, sunday, holidays, even in daily
> life. Why not let us gather together to get rid of loneliness, to
> find ourselves companionship, to enjoy love or friendship! Let's
> provide ourselves to the society and meet many people and choose
> the one we want to be with, the one we love, but we have not met
> yet
	
        	Choose the one you're with? Mama mia, mama mia ...
		I'd like-a an Italian girl with big-a bazzon-a, do
		you have them in Utah-a?

.
> 
>      Good luck to all of you, dear friends!
> 
> 
> 
>                                        Editor

		Aleluyah, aleluyah ... 
		Masloke !!! As long as they don't charge for the pamphlets.

> 
> 
>      P.S.
> 
>      For APPLICATION FORM please write to:

		Chico !!! Para salvarse hay que llenar una forma !!!
		'Chacho que esta e'to peo' que el welfare ...

> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>           --------------------------------------------
>           |       FRIENDSHIP CLUB MEMBERSHIP         |
>           |                                          |
>           |               USU Box 1621               |
>           |       Logan, UT   84322-0199  U.S.A.     |
>           --------------------------------------------
> 
>      Or send inquiring by E-mail.
-- 

_______________________________________________________________________________
             
                                 - "Por la esquina del viejo barrio lo vi
 jy2y1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu      -  pasa', con el tumbao que tienen lo' guapo'
				 -  al camina'"
					
_______________________________________________________________________________
From: lmm@wam.umd.edu (Leopoldo Mercado)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:20:40 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <16228@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes:

>years in the now defunct Soviet Union.  Communism, as Marx defined it, is a 
>classless society in which the producers of wealth (the working class) are in 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Interesting.
In a classless society, a social class are in control.
Kind of a contradiction, isn't it?
>
>Edelmiro
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: torres@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca ( mario  torres )
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University EE Lab, Montreal
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 04:59:06 GMT

To my dear friend Edelmiro:
                           I want to make this short and
factual because it's something your arguments lack!!. 
It bothers you to have someone from Canada meddle with
the internal goings-ons of US politics?. Well, imagine
how the million of progressive Latin-Americans(you are
obviously excluded because you are a "yanki"[Irony intended])
feel after having their destinies decided in washington?.
I, like Marcus, am also a Canadian and I assure you that 
paranoia regarding Cuba and Castro that has permeated every
level of society in the US is unknown to us(Canadians). If
you, by any strecth of your imagination, believe that ra-
tification of the Free Trade Agreement is something that
is making us lose some sleep; believe no more because 
Free Trade Agreement is extremely unpopular among Cana-
dians. The fact that the Prime Minister refused to call
for a referendum on that issue demonstrates that the
present Canadian gov't did not think it would get the
approval of canadians to go ahead. We are happily 
and voluntarily enjoying our relationship with Cuba
and they are definitely going to become more intensive
due to the embargo imposed by the US. Moreover, I confess
that I sat down and gave thought to an insinuation by
another fellow netter about us Canadians being jealous of the
US. I concluded that it was the other around!!. Who in the
world would want to have the reputation the US have??. Not
us Canadians for sure!!. We still want to be civilized and
live in a more egalitarian society. Correct me if I am wrong
but the way you talk about Canada as being just an extension
of the US(the northern provinces...???????) demonstrates your
own parochialism. Canada is sovereign country (in case you 
didn't know!!) and NO!! we do not want to be US citizens,
we are proud enough to have our own country.
To counter your predictable accusation!!, No! I am not a
communist!! I am just a person who believes that the
world would be a better place if we respect each other
instead of dictating upon the weak. 

                                  Truly yours
                                   M.T.
PS: This summer I am going to visit Havana, do you wish me
to bring you some souvenirs?????????
:wq

ooA
From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Date: 23 Aug 92 08:27:51 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

En<1992Aug23.055050.21007@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Mario Torres escribe:

[garbage deleted]

>in order to asist in deciding whether the
>definition applies to me I will provide you the following information:
>I am the son of athird generation Spanish-Canadian father and a
>fifteenth generation French-Canadian(Quebecois to quote you...yes!
>I am one of those Quebecois you talked about!!). Luckily my parents
>have been smart enough to pass on to me the Spanish language so that
>I would fare better in this world and to introduce me to the richness
>of my father's culture.

I'm so happy you have three cultures Mario: Canadian, French and Spanish.  
I'ld just home some narrow minded Puerto Ricans would just let me have two and 
still call myself a Puerto Rican just as you consider yourself Canadian.

>Regarding your allusion to our helath care sys-
>tem, it may have its faults but it's far better than anything you may
>get downthere. I do not explicitly reply to such comments beecause
>of thiir ambiguity(as always!!) and because I opted for an end to
>a discussion on the subject with someone who clearly is ignorant on the
>matter. Have you heard of the "tourists" who come to Canada with false
>medicaid cards to receive hospital treatment??..they come from places like
>NY, Detroit, Boston, New Hampshire...etc.. I just thought I'd enlighten
>you!!.

Please tell me more 'cause I guess these "tourists" didn't go over there to 
get brain surgery or cancer treatment, which are almost unavailable, or 
available after a 4 month waiting period in  which your body may just as well 
be full of tumors (as Bush said: a health system with the "kindness of the 
KGB").  Well, in any event, why are we discussing the Canadian health system on 
soc.culture.latin-america? Or whether your tricultural identities are those of 
an asimilado?  I thougth you were goint to answer the rebutall to the 
Ottawa/Havanna honeymoon.  After all, not all Canadians agree with your 
position and seem to be willing to reverse their policy objectives...

Edelmiro.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: jy2y1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Ton~o Scherer)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:54:36 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

In article <2A928901.24659@orion.oac.uci.edu>,
rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo) writes: 
> In article <1473800285@igc.apc.org> David Sangurima <sangu@igc.apc.org> writes:
>>
>>
>>The only "winds of freedom blowing all over the world" is the flatulence of
>>the "New World Disorder" which some netters uncritically suck in.
> 
>   Oh, sour grapes forever!!! I just feel a BIG flatulence coming on right now
>   for all the communist bullshit you believe in!!
> 
>>Millions of persons dying unnecessarily due to the same 500 year-old wine
>>in new bottles.
> 
>  My 500 year old "wine" is not as old as your 9th-15th century feudalism
>  were the "lord" of the land is the communist party chairman and the vassals
>  are the rest of the population,- as in Cuba where Castro owns everything
>  and the rest of the Cuban people own nothing, not even a piece of land!
>  Communism is nothing more than feudalism with a different name and even
>  fewer liberties for the people!
> 
>>Get a life. And do try to keep your replies a bit more factual and SHORTER.
> 
>  But I HAVE a life, a wonderful life. What about you? It looks like you're
>  still fighting on the side of the losers. Get a life and joint the "program"
>  boy!
							    ^^^^       ^^^^^^^

		Yes, get a joint and a program !!! And a life too, while
	you're at it. :)	
                Oye Rave, sigues en las mismas, eh?
		
> 
>  As far as the length of my replies, look at the amount of bullshit you keep
>  sending defending your maoist "landlords".........
> 
>  Give them HELL Fujimori!! Viva un Peru libre de asesinos maoistas!
>
		Que Viva !!!  :)
 
> 
> --
> Ray I. Ravelo                 "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
> Office of Academic Computing.  Cubans who look around us in terror"
> UC, Irvine.                   from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela
> 
-- 

_______________________________________________________________________________
             
                                 - "Por la esquina del viejo barrio lo vi
 jy2y1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu      -  pasa', con el tumbao que tienen lo' guapo'
				 -  al camina'"
					
_______________________________________________________________________________
From: deras@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Angel R. Deras)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: informacion sobre Francis Cabrel (cantante)
Keywords: Francis Cabrel
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:17:06 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.latin-america
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Necesito informacion sobre un cantante llamado Francis Cabrel(?).
Podria alguien en la net mandarme datos sobre su natalicio, discografia,
genero musical, etc. a la siguiente direccion?

	deras@andromeda.rutgers.edu

					Muchas Gracias,
					   Ricardo Deras
Xref: sparky soc.culture.latin-america:3144 soc.culture.mexican:4919 soc.culture.brazil:2070
From: drusso@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america,soc.culture.mexican,soc.culture.brazil
Subject: Weekly Newspapers from Latin America
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:27:12 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

Info-South, Latin American Informatin System, is looking for the names of 
weekly editions of major newspapers in Latin America.  Info-South would
appreciate recieving any subscription information you could provide.

Info-South presently presently includes over 50,000 citations and abstracts
on line.  The data-base covers a wide range of subjects of interest to
government, business, education, etc.  Presently Info-South subscribes to
more than 1500 weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications including all
major journals of opinion and commentary and all standard academic journals
in the field of social sciences.

If you have information about weekly newspapers, would like more information
about Info-South, please post a message to the addresses below or call 
Info-South at 800-752-9567 or 305-284-4414.

Internet: msgctr@sabio.ir.miami.edu
Bitnet: msgctr@umiami.bitnet
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: v044397@otis1.stortek.com (Deanna Castorena )
Subject: Encontra de Amigos!
Reply-To: v044397@otis1.UUCP (Deanna Castorena )
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:53:11 GMT

Hola,
  Me llamo Deanna, tengo 23 anos, y vivo en los Estados Unidos.  Me gustaria 
conocer personas de otras lugares.  No se el Espanol muy bien, pero quiero 
practicar.  Tambien, pueden practicar su Ingles conmigo, si gustarian!  
Escibame, por favor ... v044397@stortek.com
From: rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo)
Subject: Re: Humanitarian, Cuba, Et Al.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:46:41 GMT

In article <1473800285@igc.apc.org> David Sangurima <sangu@igc.apc.org> writes:
>
>
>The only "winds of freedom blowing all over the world" is the flatulence of
>the "New World Disorder" which some netters uncritically suck in.

  Oh, sour grapes forever!!! I just feel a BIG flatulence coming on right now
  for all the communist bullshit you believe in!!

>Millions of persons dying unnecessarily due to the same 500 year-old wine
>in new bottles.

 My 500 year old "wine" is not as old as your 9th-15th century feudalism
 were the "lord" of the land is the communist party chairman and the vassals
 are the rest of the population,- as in Cuba where Castro owns everything
 and the rest of the Cuban people own nothing, not even a piece of land!
 Communism is nothing more than feudalism with a different name and even
 fewer liberties for the people!

>Get a life. And do try to keep your replies a bit more factual and SHORTER.

 But I HAVE a life, a wonderful life. What about you? It looks like you're
 still fighting on the side of the losers. Get a life and joint the "program"
 boy!

 As far as the length of my replies, look at the amount of bullshit you keep
 sending defending your maoist "landlords".........

 Give them HELL Fujimori!! Viva un Peru libre de asesinos maoistas!


--
Ray I. Ravelo                 "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
Office of Academic Computing.  Cubans who look around us in terror"
UC, Irvine.                   from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela