From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,soc.culture.latin-america,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Nicaragua MYTHS: "Sandinista Mismanagement" (II)
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:59:39 GMT
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB


"The Pan American Health Organization estimates that of 850,000
children born every year in Central America, 100,000 will die
before the age of five and two-thirds of those who survive will
suffer from malnutrition, with attendant physical or mental
development problems.  The Inter-American Development Bank
reports that per capita income has fallen to the level of 1971 in
Guatemala, 1961 in El Salvador, 1973 in Honduras, 1960 in
Nicaragua, 1974 in Costa Rica, and 1982 in Panama. {note: Cesar
Chelala, "Central America's Health Plight," _Christian Science
Monitor_, March 22; _CAR_, March 2, 1990.}

"Nicaragua was an exception to this trend of increasing misery,
but the U.S. terrorist attack and economic warfare succeeded in
reversing earlier gains.  Nevertheless, infant mortality halved
over the decade, from 128 to 62 deaths per thousand births; "Such
a reduction is exceptional on the international level," a UNICEF
official said in 1989, "especially when the country's war-ravaged
economy is taken into account." {note: _Latinamerica press_
(_LP_) (Peru), Nov. 16, 1989.}

>From _The Victors_ part one -- Use GET command with CHOMSKY VICTORS1

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Augmenting the Infant Mortality chart in Sklar's
book with data from the 1990 World Almanac and
Book of Facts:

              Infant Mortality Rate   From 1990
              Deaths under one year   World Almanac
              per 1,000 live births   

                  1979    1983        1990 (*)

Costa Rica         22      20         15.2
El Salvador        53      71         71
Guatemala          69      64         66
Honduras          103      81         73
Nicaragua         122      75         37

(*)Or most recent available data.

[Cuba's infant mortality: 13.3 per 1,000 (1987)
and 96% literacy, according to the Almanac]

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