From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Who Were the "Contras" ? (VIII)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:18:32 GMT


Who Were the "Contras" ? (VIII)

"Our friends are quite aware of what they do. Arturo Cruz, who has
been dubbed `the leading Nicaragua democrat' by the US media, concedes
that his contra associates have committed ``damnable atrocities''
against civilians. Before joining them, he warned that their victory
might lead ``to a possible mass execution of the flower of our youth''
while describing some of them as ``civic cadavers'' and noting that
``most of those persons in positions of military authority within the
FDN are ex-members of the National Guard, who unconditionally
supported Somoza until the end, against the will of the Nicaraguan
people'' -- not ``most,'' but virtually all, from the top military
commander on down; Edgar Chamorro, chosen by the CIA to serve as
spokesman for its proxy army, writes that ``by mid-1984, 46 out of 48
of the contra commandantes were former National Guardsmen.'' Cruz is
unhappy about the fact that the contras ``are almost totally
controlled by right-wingers, many of them followers of'' Somoza,
Dennis Volman reports. The new unified command (UNO) set up by the CIA
is ``dominated by Adolfo Calero, according to all sources
interviewd''; ``Mr. Calero is an ultra-conservative Nicaraguan
businessman closely allied to those FDN field commanders who were top
officers in Somoza's army''..."[28]

	[Cruz is saying something unpleasant to some, so it is  ]
	[best to save their fingers the trouble of attacking    ]
	[Cruz since the U.S. senate found the same 46 out of 48 ]
	[(Senate report cited later on in the series; or by email) --HB]

[28]:New York Times, Nov. 23, 1984; Pamela Constable, Boston Globe,
April 24, 1985; Cruz, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1983; Cruz, Op-Ed, New
York Times, Dec. 6, 1984; Edgar Chamorro, In These Times, Sept. 4,
1985; Dennis Volman, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 15, 1985

[From _Turning the Tide. U.S.. Intervention in Central America and the
Struggle for Peace_ By Noam Chomsky, 1985, South End Press, Boston.]
[South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
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            T h e   " N i c a r a g u a   L i b r a r y "
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* Nicaragua
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  WHO-WERE CONTRAS    Contras' origins; make-up; practices - documented
  FSLN     H-RIGHTS  Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
  FSLN     MISKITOS  Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
  FSLN     NICAJEWS  Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
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  OXFAM84  NICARAG   Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
  FSLN     ACHIEVE   Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
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  NICA-84  ELECTION  Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
  FAIRNESS NICA-USA  Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
  NICRAGUA ELECTION  Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election

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