[A VOTE in the US Senate has made…]
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A VOTE in the US Senate has made Reagan's war by proxy against Nicaragua more difficult.
The Senate voted to refuse tne CIA $21 million extra for undercover operations.
But the war continues.
What the Senate found too much to swallow was the mining ot Nicaragua's ports - which, apart from anything else, is bad lor business for the many capitalist countries which trade with Nicaragua. France had talked of assembling a fleet with Latin American countries to clear the mines.
The Sunday Times on April 8 reported: "According to one informant, the mines were placed by small teams comprising a half dozen CIA agents and a few antiSandinista guerillas. He said the top-secret, high-technology ventre was organised and financed by the CIA from bases in El Salvador and Honduras..."
But that is only one part of the war.
Counter - revolutionary Nicaraguan groups are financed and equipped by the CIA to carry out border raids and sabotage operations. The army of Honduras, based on US military aid, joins together with US forces to do 'exercises' in the border area.
And the US continues to finarc and guide the armed forces conJucting a bloody civil war on behalf of El Salvador's ruling class.
The people are worried and uneasy about Reagan's strategy. The answer is that the US should clear out of Central America and leave its people to determine their own future free of big-power bullying.
ANDREW MOORE