In short, Reagan was asking for $100 million to fund terrorists, which meant many more civilians would be killed before this ugly “secret” war ended. I was quite disturbed to hear these impoverished campesinos describe their CIA recruiters enticing them to become Contras to stop Sandinistas from “eating their babies”.Ībrams and the Reagan administration were asking Congress for an additional $100 million to fund the Contra “freedom fighters” to counter the “threat” the Sandinistas posed to neighboring “democratic” countries. While studying in Estelí I arranged an interview with a group of Contra prisoners at the nearby penitentiary. subverting neighboring democratic countries.” Elliott Abrams, President Reagan’s assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs, began this new propaganda campaign with a nationally distributed op-ed piece in which he declared that there was “no question the Sandinista regime is repressive and undemocratic. National Security Council (NSC) launched an all-out campaign to convince Congress and the American people that the Sandinistas were a growing threat to all of Central America. On January 13, just over a week after I landed in Nicaragua, the U.S. The goal of US policy, he said, was “peaceful but the manner in which we pursue it is not.” In effect, the US policy was dominated by military terrorism, supported primarily by Republicans in the Congress, while starvation was supported primarily by Democrats. He informed me that the two factors determining the future of Nicaragua were: (1) the people’s reaction to internal economic shortages due to the economic embargo, including “food shortages”, and (2) the military “fortunes” of the contras. Soon after, I visited the US Embassy and spoke with official Garrett Sweeny. ![]() I watched six of those victims lying in open caskets being carried on horse drawn wagons moving slowly to the Estelí cemetery. During the first week, the Contras attacked three farming cooperatives near Estelí, killing eleven campesinos. My first trip to Nicaragua occurred in January 1986 when I attempted to learn Spanish at a school in Estelí. ![]() This week we include Brian’s personal account of the period from January 1986 to the February 1990 electoral defeat. ![]() Previously we serialized my Introduction to the book and are currently working through Brian Willson and Nils McCune’s thumbnail history of US intervention in Nicaragua. You can download the book in pdf or two different e-book formats here. With our support, brand owners and retailers can focus on what they do best: build their brands.With our specialist team of passionate professionals, we offer 24/7 services for clients like Hema, Heineken, Albert Heijn, Remia, Action and many others from our offices in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Managua and Chennai.We are passionate to talk packaging.This week we continue our irregular serialization of Live From Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup?, the electronic coup reader Alliance for Global Justice posted in April with a lot of help from our friends including over 20 authors and several editors. By creating 3D packshots straight after the artwork approval, we enable you to shorten your time-to-market and have your packaging- and marketing communication available long before the actual packs are printed.FroQ operates behind the frontline of creativity and we protect your designs by high quality artwork and full understanding of the various printing processes. A vast team of 175 + fte worldwide is at your service.We offer (onsite) packaging project management, design implementation, artwork and lithography services for brands and private labels, as well for marketing departments and design agencies.With our workflow management tool we streamline your artwork process, which saves you time and budget. Welcome at FroQ Brandservices, the packaging design execution specialist.
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