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...been intensely interested in Latin American political and economic affairs for several years, I had considered joining COCA before coming to Harvard. I read with interest COCA's description of itself as an organization devoted to proclaiming and preserving the sovereignty of the legitimate governments of Central America. Yet after attending its introductory meeting during my first week here and reading some of its literature, I gradually came to the realization that COCA was no such thing...
...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...
...Granted, COCA's underlying intention of calling our attention to the atrocities of the past week is, by itself, noble. No one with sympathy for the people of El Salvador can justify what happened. Why, then, was I so quick to throw out the memo? And why do I feel so compelled to denounce COCA's strategy...
...obvious that COCA's action breached a central university rule that no student organization may distribute printed material without that material including its own name, and may have violated federal law by forging the signature of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass...
More significantly, however, COCA's distribution of the memo was an irresponsible attempt to generate hysteria among undergraduates when, given the current inequities in our system of military service, there was clearly no need to do so. It also represented another example of COCA's highly selective and skewed portrayal of current events in Central America and of the United States' role in them...