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Dick Nichols, in a 40-page report available on the Links web site (http://tinyurl.com/yapj5z4a), conducts an exhaustive investigation into the claims by the Ortega-Murillo regime that it was the target of a planned coup attempt in April. He concludes: "In the absence of evidence corroborating the Nicaraguan government's view of the events of April as an attempted coup it will become increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the events of April were a peaceful protest that state repression transformed into a citizen rebellion against the repression itself and for the democratic replacement of the government implementing it. "If this shortfall of corroborating evidence continues, the initial decision of the Nicaraguan government to repress the protests, finalised by the "clean-up" (limpieza) carried out in June and July, would make its view of the protests as a coup instigated by the Nicaraguan right and the United States indispensable for it - not as any description of reality but as justification of its own choice to crush dissent with lethal force." Valuable reading for anyone seeking the truth about what really happened in Nicaragua. Dick confines his analysis to the April protests and subsequent explanations by the regime attempting to justify its repression. For background reading on the nature of the Nicaraguan government, I recommend Dan La Botz's "What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution" (Haymarket), especially his detailed account of Nicaraguan politics and the political corruption of the Ortega leadership since the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990. Richard _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
