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Instead, it became clear that COCA was, frankly, engaged in spreading specious and patently false propaganda. Don't be misled by its use of words like "self-determination"--COCA members are interested in no such thing...
...fact, it seems the sole purpose of this organization is to protest U.S. military involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua. At the same time, COCA completely ignores encroachment by the Soviet Union and its Cuban allies on the domestic affairs of these countries, or claims that such interference is some how morally justifiable...
NEVER have I heard COCA unconditionally denounce the Sandinista government for its human rights abuses or for its reliance on the military assistance of the Cubans and the Soviets, which began, one may recall, during the Carter years--that is, before the U.S. decided to fund the contra rebels. Never have I heard COCA question the legitimacy of a Nicaraguan government that prohibits independent polling of its citizens and has done everything it could to squash the free speech of the opposition, as the editors of La Prensa would attest...
...COCA members certainly did not respond with public outrage and denounce Ortega's recent decision to halt the year-long ceasefire in Nicaragua, an act which drew widespread condemnation from the democratic leaders of this hemisphere. And I doubt that COCA members will make any noise if Ortega, as he has done in the past, intimidates the currently united democratic opposition and subverts the electoral process in order to keep himself in power...
...course, the fact that COCA seems not to have weighed such moral ambiguities and complexities in their superficial analysis of the ongoing crises in Central America should come as a surprise to no one. After all, its existence, like that of most other activist organizations on this campus, relies less on reasoned discourse between its members than on lock-step conformity to a single viewpoint and the drowning out of opposing beliefs...