From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:53:51 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

In <9209040733.AA14150@tba.msi.cornell.edu> Harel reposts:

>Who Were the "Contras" ? (IV)

>"There can be no doubt, on the basis of what we head and saw, that a
>PLANNED STRATEGY OF TERRORISM is being carried out by the contras
>along the Honduras border"

>[Capitalization added]

Here we witness the same tune Bush uses in his campaign against Clinton: Who 
were the Democrats (i.e., Carter)?  In such propaganda, rulers look back, tell 
you things were worse with the who were fellows, and then hit you harder than 
the guys they mention.  You see Harel, the problem with your jingle "Who were 
the contras" is that the contras are no more, they have been disbanded and 
their leaders have been murdered with their same methods.  In contrast, the 
Sandinistas have not disbanded, and their leaders have not been assasinated by 
others employing their same methods.  In fact, they still have an army, the 
only army in Nicaragua.  So if we follow you same line of looking for skeletons 
in dead peoples closets, perhaps we should look at others.  Don't worry, I 
won't make people barf with what the Sandinistas did.  In fact perhaps we 
should begin a series of articles titled "Who were x?"  Where x is a variable 
for any Latin American Guerrila movement.  

WHO WERE THE M-26ers?

Well at least one of them, Mr. Ernesto Guevarra was faced with a guerrila in 
his own army who had been somking and disobeying the curfew they had imposed in 
order to be hidden from Batistas troops.  Mr. Guevarra asked the peasant if he 
had been smoking, which he answered affirmatively.  Immediately "Che" took his 
45 and blew the guys brain all over the floor.  He later stated it was all a 
necesary part of military discipline.  Interestingly, Mr. Guevarra was the 
primary theoretician of latin american TERRORISM (capitalization added) when he 
developed his strategy of the guerrilla "focus" which began with narrow scope 
of a few highly trained terrorists exerting military force in their effort of 
military control of the countryside, and ended with wide scope and an ultimate 
conquest of power in the city.  The "enemy" was quick to lear over the errors 
of the terrorist and developed exactly the same strategy in order to erradicate 
these foui: counterinsurgency campaigns with search and destroy missions.  
Terror was wiped out with terror, and the cycle continued.  So Mr. Guevarra can 
certainly win the prize of supreme terrorist in Latin America.. 

WHO WERE DE ERP?

In El Salvador they robbed plenty of Banks,and killed plenty of soldiers in 
their terrorist army of 100, when, all of a sudden, they decided to purge some 
of their own.  Their target: poet Roque Dalton.  His crime: simpathizing with 
the Cuban revisionist pette bourgeouise line and attempting to making it the 
party line of this group which now belongs to the FMLN (ask terrorist Joaquin 
Villalobos about the incident).  They soon "arrested" and "court martialed" Mr. 
Dalton. In one hour he was found guilty of "treason" and immediately shot 
before their own revoultuionary firing squad.  Leaving one of the greatest (and 
youngest) poets in El Salvador with a Bullet in his brain.

WHO WERE THE FRIENDS OF MAURICE BISHOP?

Once apon a time the "left" won elections in Greneda under the popular Maurice 
Bishop.  Maurice asked Cuba for aid, which obviously came in the form of a 
military airport and Cuban troops to build and advise the revoultionary army.  
But Maurice wasn't a stalinist, rather an open minded social democrat who still 
believed in elections and non-alignment. And that didn't please Havanna, so 
through one of their new Grenadine Generals (I don't remember the name of this 
goon), they too decided to arrest Mr. Bishop and execute him for his 
"revisionist" crimes,  The assasination soon gave Mr. Reagan a chance to easily 
destroy the lackluster Cuban troops and restore a "friendly" governemnt down 
there.

WHO WERE THE MACHETEROS?

A group of 15 or so Puerto Rican terrorists (under the official name of 
"Popular Army of Borinquen" who "ambushed" a shcoolbus full of unamred U.S. 
communications personell traveling on a road of old San Juan on their way to 
work.  They approached the bus with in a van and proceed to empty their AK-47's 
on non combat personell.  Two were killed and all were seriously injured.  
Later, they placed numerous explosive devices in post offices, sending 
civilians to the hospital for picking up their yanqui delivered mail.  Further 
on, they decided to rob an armor car and steal 6 million to live the life of 
the rich and famous.  Finally, they decided to fire a bazooka on the FBI 
offices in San Juan, hitting instead some social security office.  Needless to 
say, they were the only "army" conducting a "war" in Puerto Rico's streets.

I would like to continue, but the list of atrocities commited by terrorists 
who were friendly to the Sandinistas, or who believed in causes which the 
Sandinistas later espoused are many.  In fact, the Sanindistas are very good at 
terrorism.  Don't you remember the job they did on Somoza in Parguay?  

Maybe others should continue with the Who were x? series.  Here are some 
possible topics for other episodes:

Who were the Montoneros?
Who were the Tupamaros?
Who were the Miristas?
Who were/are the Guatemalan terrorists?
Who were/are the FMLN terrorists?
Who were the Venezuelan terrorists?
Who was comandante Salvador Cayetano Carpio?
Who were/are the M-19 terrorists?
Who were the leaders of Unidad Popular?

Edelmiro Salas
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