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...touts the virtues of foreign intervention and the necessity of aiding the illegal war in Nicaragua. Twenty years ago, he was content to allow his family to keep him out of Vietnam. As a senator, he has voted against funding polio immunization programs. He has voted against school lunch programs. When asked how he could justify that vote to poor families, he responded: "They didn't ask me those questions." His civil rights rating is among the lowest in the Senate. In the area of foreign policy, he has said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is merely a modern...
Dukakis opposes aid to the rebels in Nicaragua, and has denounced the Reagan Administration's Central American policy as a "fiasco." Dukakis advocates a multilateral approach, joining Central American leaders, to resolve the region's conflicts. He has also been critical of the Reagan Administration's relationship with Panama Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Peruvian friends are pleased with my choice. Dukakis talks peace in Central America, speaks Spanish and studied at Lima's University de San Marcos. Vice President George Bush is a former CIA head, part of an Administration that broke U.S. law to continue Nicaragua's civil war and a supporter of the Republican tradition in foreign policy. Every Republican since World War II has aided the bloody overthrow of a Latin American government...
...inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt that one American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention in his country and whose name was appropriated by Nicaragua's currently reigning Sandinistas. "Yet nine out of ten Latins know who George Washington...
Solentiname was a traditional peasant community on an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua. Poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, who became Minister of Culture after the Sandinistas came to power, went to Solentiname to teach the peasants to read. A friend of Cardenal also began a poetry workshop, teaching the previously illiterate peasants to write their own poetry, Gullette said...