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Relief also came from more than 20 nations-including Nicaragua, where only three years ago another earthquake devastated Managua, the capital, killing 10,000. The U.S. organized an airlift, carrying everything from water tanks and tents to a fully staffed 100-bed field hospital. Private agencies and church groups also volunteered...
...summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced; Manzanillo, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, promises to become the world's next deep-sea fishing capital. Nicaragua and Colombia are also enjoying a vogue. For the gregarious, the biggest bargains in the sun are probably the French-accented Club Mediterranee resorts, from Guadeloupe to Tahiti...
...large, however, the Front remains hidden--even from its firmest supporters, the students. The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), located in the northern city of Leon, is a center of resistance to the government. A Latin American tradition, not yet violated in Nicaragua, protects the autonomy of the university, and the corridors and walls of UNAN are papered with posters and literature supporting the Sandinistas. The students tell a North American visitor that perhaps 80 per cent of them are socialists and anit-imperialists. The students are primarily from middle and supper-income backgrounds, although slightly less so than...
...students are perhaps the most directly affected by another aspect of imperialism--the growing domination of Nicaragua by North American culture. English is becoming a kind of second language, necessary for medical students whose textbooks are in English, for the purchaser of a home appliance for which the operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity...
...clear. If they would free their country from North American domination, if they would plan their economy with the needs of their people and not the profits of the wealthy in mind, if they would broaden the bases of political participation and accord each man and woman in all Nicaragua the respect and dignity that each merits--the Sandinistas must fight. If they would feed the hungry and create meaningful work for the poor, if they would repatriate the parachutists, who are outcasts in their own land, if they would draw upon their own resources and replace...