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...Nations and the U.S. and as chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. He has been particularly visible as president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States. In 1978 he headed a special team that investigated human rights violations in Nicaragua and issued a blistering attack on the Somoza regime. Another report is due soon on human rights violations in Argentina...
...determines "guilt" of an international development adviser by the regime with which he "associates." In my career in the Agency for International Development (AID), I have worked with such motley regimes as those of Torrijos in Panama, Velasco in Peru, Banzer in Bolivia, Burnham in Guyana and Somoza in Nicaragua. Like most Third World countries, none of them were models of participative democracy. However, they were all serious about development; and in each of them there were people with whom I and our AID mission could work with a clear conscience in ways which might strengthen the prospects for democratic...
Literate Nicaraguans, "populares," will teach in cities and towns where they live, while a People's Literacy Army, composed of volunteers, will go to rural areas. Now in Nicaragua there is a ration of one teacher to every ten learners...
History and geography have made us your neighbors The U S would gain a very important lesson from [bilaterall relations with Cuba, and in a way I think it is already drawing that lesson. For instance, in Nicaragua, the U.S. does not look for a confrontation but for understanding...
...Afghanistan, unlike Iran and Nicaragua, was never really "ours" to lose. The British raj stopped at the Afghan border, and so did the post-World War II Pax Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO...