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TIME AFTER time, Rushdie asks his Sandinista hosts a valid political question, to which, time after time, the Nicaraguan leaders respond predictably. And, time after time after time, Rushdie accepts their response with no follow-up and no evaluation. The book is a jungle of dangling assertions...
Although in general The Jaguar Smile ignores the plight of the Nicaraguan middle class, Rushdie does make one anomalous attempt to critically evaluate the closing of La Prensa, Nicaragua's main opposition newspaper. While he does not support this move, Rushdie asserts that the government should not be condemned for it. If we look at the broader picture of the country's civil liberties, he argues, the Sandinistas come off looking not nearly so bad as it is portrayed by the Reagan Administration...
...Sandinistas are in charge to stay, and our officials are unhappy, fearing that the Nicaraguan government will repress its people and subvert its neighbors. Only two options remain: either invade or let the Sandinistas do what they will. Everything else we can do we already have done...
...fact that our government subsidizes suffering and oppression in the Third World. 200,000 Americans are going to Washington with a sense of responsibility, to demand that same sense of responsibility from our government. No longer should we spend our tax dollars to bomb Salvadoran villages, to machine gun Nicaraguan peasants, or to split south African miners from their families...
Investigators say they have traced much of the contra money trail. According to sources, "every penny" of the contributions North helped raise from private donors reached the Nicaraguan rebels. Contrary to reports last December, none of the solicited money was funneled to campaigns against anti- contra members of Congress. While leaders of the Nicaraguan rebel forces claim they never received any of the proceeds from the Iranian arms sales, investigators think a substantial amount of the earnings did indeed drop into contra coffers...