From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Crimes of the Sandinista Government (FSLN)
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:27:03 GMT

The Crimes of the Sandinista Government (FSLN)


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     Central America: Economic and Social Comparisons, 1979-1985
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                Socioeconomic Ranking*        Adult Literacy
                (141) countries (142)             Rate %

                  1979        1983           1979        1983

Costa Rica         52          65             93          93
El Salvador        82          89             63          66
Guatemala          86          90             50          54
Honduras           92          93             60          62
Nicaragua          86          75             50          88

* Average ranks of Gross National Product, Health and Educations per capita
(lower number means higher rank)

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    A 40-year-old peasant woman said of the crusade, "Somoza did not
    want us to be able to read. Now we feel as if we are coming out of
    the darkness."
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[From Oxfam report _Nicaragua: Development Under Fire_]
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Research assistance by Laura Henze

_Sources:_ Ruth Leger Sivard, _World Military and Social Expenditures
1982 and 1986_ (Washington, DC: World Priorities); Inter-American
Development Bank, _Economic and Social Progress in Latin America 1986
Report_; Michael E. Conroy, "Economic Legacy and Policies," Table
10.2, in Walker, ed.  _Nicaragua,_ p.224

From page 64 in:

Washington's War on Nicaragua, by Holly Sklar
1988, South End Press, Boston
[South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818]
[For a free catalog: 1-800-533-8478; see AML resource files]


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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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