From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: Central America Natives: Appendix: Reagan Revisionism
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:43:24 GMT

Central America Natives: Appendix: Reagan Revisionism

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                Reagan Revisionism and Guatemala:
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Edward S Herman writes:

"In a visit to Guatemala in December 1982, President Reagan
declared that the then head-of-state, General Ri'os Montt, was
a devoted democrat getting a "bum rap." This was only two months
after Amnesty International released a report detailing the
massacre of over 2,600 Indians and peasant farmers in at least
112 separate incidents earlier in the year. In one of its most
illuminating reports ever, _Guatemala Revisited: How the Reagan
Administration Finds ``Improvements'' in Human Rights in
Guatemala_, Americas Watch pointed out that the administration
had first found General Lucas Garci'a to be a caring leader, very
concerned to avoid civilian casualties, but that after his
overthrow by Ri'os Montt the administration suddenly found that
Garci'a had been a butcher, but _now_ Guatemala was in the hands
of real reformers! After Ri'os Montt was overthrown by General
Meji'a Victores, the State Department once again expressed deep
anguish at the murders under Ri'os Montt, now replaced by a
_true_ democrat. This report, which tells us so much about the
Reagan administration's devotion to democracy and human rights,
was ignored by the mass media."

[From: _Nicaragua: The Threat Of A Good Example_ [title based on
a report by Oxfam America by the same name; use GET command (see
bottom) with the file FSLN ACHIEVE], CovertAction Information
Bulletin, number 29, Winter 1987, by Edward S. Herman, prof.,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania]


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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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