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Continued U.S. non-recognition would be highly ironic. Just as the late Shah of Iran and Somoza of Nicaragua were U.S.-created dictators, so is the Bolivian military largely a product of U.S. foreign policy in the 50s and 60s. The 1952 revolution in Bolivia shook the U.S. government because major mines were nationalized, a peoples' militia were created, and workers obtained an important role in the new government. Over the next 18 years U.S. economic aid was contingent on the rebuilding of the military, and direct military aid during that period came to $56.6 million. Even more important, between...
Though he said anti-American sentiment is strong in Nicaragua, he assured the audience that American poets from Walt Whitman to Robert Frost were well-loved in the country...
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua's Minister of Culture, told a K-School audience Saturday night that the Reagan administration's foreign policy makers have forgotten the lessons of Vietnam and view "complex problems of today's world in terms of East-West conflict...
Criticizing the United States for cutting off loans to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and for aiding the Salvadoran junta. Cardenal warned that his countryment would take up arms again to protect their two-year-old revolution against any aggression...
...attack on us all. I hope that you understand me literally. If Dr. Ngo cannot return to Harvard to express his views on Vietnam without fearing for his life, then the faculty, guests, employees, and students who write and speak here on such subjects as Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, and ElSalvador have to expect that they too may soon run deathly risks...