Sandinistas face invasion

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the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N&, and printed by East Find Oriset (TO). Registered as a newspaper at the PO. Signed articles do not necessarily rohic the viiws of the FOLLOWING last week's news that some 2,000 Honduran troops had entered El Salvador to join the military regime's fight against left wing guerrillas, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has announced that "a big, well-organised military force" from Honduras has started war in Nicaragua.

The forces from Honduras have, say the Sandinistas, "the organisation and armaments of a regular army"

Sandinista minister Luis Carrion said, 'Their plan is to create the impression of an internal war when in reality it is an invasion from Honduras. We cannot now call them simply guerrilla bands. They: are counter-revolutionary military units"

Cross-border harassment is now new. Some 5,000 members of the notorious National Guard of the former dictator Anastasio Somoza took refuge in Honduras after the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, and have since carried out raids and sallies into Nicara qua.

But _ since the anti-Somoza revolution Honduras has also been the US's strategic bastion in Central America. Less affected by internal rebellion than El Salvador and Guatemala, it has been pumped full of military, aid.

Opposition to war by the American: people still hinders Reagan from using direct US military force to crush the revolutionary movements in Central America and to overturn the radical regimes in Nicaragua and Grenada. Instead the US government has used threats, harassment, and the intermediary of local armed forces sustained and trained by the US.

Suspicions of a US hand in the latest attack must be raised by the fact that Honduran president Roberto Suazo Cordova visited the White House only last Wednesday.

The US has conceded that there is what they call 'limited military action" along the . Honduras Nicaragua border.

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