From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Crimes of Nicaragua
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 01:38:34 GMT


The Crimes of Nicaragua


    AMONG THE FOUR COUNTIES in the region where Oxfam America works
    [Nicaragua, El Salvador, guatemala, and Honduras], only in
    Nicaragua has a substantial effort been made to address inequities
    in land ownership and to extend health, educational, and
    agricultural services to poor peasant families. But the contra war
    had slowed by pace of social reform and compounded hunger in the
    northern countryside.

        --Oxfam America report on Central America

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  Oxfam's parent organization in London, in a report entitled _The
  Threat of a Good Example?_ states that "from Oxfams' experience of
  working in 76 developing countries, Nicaragua was to prove
  exceptional in the strength of that government's commitment `to
  improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active
  participation in the development process' [quoting from the World
  Bank]." Oxfam America went on to point out that in contrast with the
  effective land reform in Nicaragua, the one in El Salvador "has not
  been carried out" and "was not intended to benefit the rural poor in
  the first place." In Guatemala there has been no pretense at land
  reform, as the oligarchy has objected strongly even to resettling
  peasants on government-owned land, which would reduce the supply of
  cheap labor on the large farms. In the 85 opinion pieces on
  Nicaragua in the Times and Post referred to earlier, only two make
  even passing reference to the Sandinista social programs, and none
  compares them with those of the U.S. clients in the area.

  Edward S. Herman [Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania] in
  Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter 1987
  

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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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*
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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'
*
  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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