Boston Globe: Nicaragua's "Infectious Virus" Had to be Stopped

Horhey · Aug 30, 2012

C-SPAN: Former CIA Chief of Station, John Stockwell on the US Terrorist War in Nicaragua

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The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order

By John Stockwell

Terror has been a part of this [contra] program, terror as raw as anything that happens in the Middle East or elsewhere. The contras habitually went into villages and hauled families out of their homes. They forced children to watch while they castrated and killed their fathers, while they raped their mothers and slashed off their breasts, or they forced parents to watch while they mutilated the children. It is not a bloodbath. It is like you are going in a village and you kill a few people to make your point.
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That is a standard [CIA] technique in attempting to destabilize and overthrow a government, is to demonstrate to the citizens that it's government cannot provide security for them. This is the way to break resistance. This is what they do. The famous CIA manual layed this out very clearly for them. I hate to say it in this cold blooded way but it is a standard technique.

--David MacMichael, former CIA analyst on Nicaragua
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Adopting the terminology of Henry Kissinger and other planners, Boston Globe Editor Randolph Ryan who was perhaps the harshest critic writes that:

The Boston Globe: USING NICARAGUA AS A PRACTICE GROUND FOR A 'LOW-INTENSITY' WAR

It is clear that this little country is no threat. There is a temptation to write this stubbornness off as an obsession, but it has a rationale. Nicaragua is being punished, and its peace offers rejected, not for what it does but for what it is. No longer a subversive "virus," Nicaragua has become a target of opportunity, a chance to get even for Vietnam. There was an impression that the revolutionary left was on a roll in Central America. The administration correctly saw that infectious spirit as a "virus" that had to be stopped.
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As Noam Chomsky put it:

That is, successful social and economic development in one area may have a demonstration effect elsewhere, and the rot may spread. Incidentally, it is for this reason that the United States typically demonstrates what looks like such fanatic opposition to constructive developments in marginal countries. In fact, the smaller and less significant the country, the more danagerous it is. If a tiny, nothing-country with no natural resources can begin to extricate itself from the system of misery and oppression that we've helped to impose, then others who have even more resources may be tempted to do likewise.
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So now that the "infectious virus" has been stopped, it is no longer necessary to continue "ripping apart the social and economic fabric of the country...[Meaning,] making the people suffer as much as you can untill the country plunges into chaos, untill at some point you can step in and impose your choice of government on that country, a strategy that was ultimately successful in the 1990 Nicaraguan elections when the people of that country "cried uncle" and voted for the CIA collaborator, Violeta Chamorro." (John Stockwell ,former CIA Chief of Station)

The US terrorist war in Nicaragua is a total horror story. The "infectious virus" Randolph Ryan warned about was the "threat of a good example" which was Nicaragua's successful independant development. Ryan was invoking the domino theory/mafia doctrine. Oxfam, the British charitable relief and development organization observes:

Oxfam: Nicaragua: The threat of a good example?

From Oxfam's experience of working in seventy-six developing countries, Nicaragua was..to prove exceptional in the strength of that Government commitment to improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active participation in the development process.
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US National Library of Medicine: Developments in health care in Nicaragua

In just 3 years more has been done in most areas of social welfare than in the 50 years of Somoza dictatorship and these efforts indicate a profound change in Nicaraguan society.
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But it was not to last. BBC News put the Contra War "in context:"

BBC News: US guilty of backing Contras

In Context

America's illegal paramilitary campaign of the 1980s was aimed at overthrowing Nicaragua's left-wing government.

The Sandinistas had begun redistributing property and made notable progress in the sphere of education.

But the US regarded them with suspicion, fearing their policies were hostile to American interests.

Former Secretary of State George Schultz is reported to have warned, in March 1986, that if the Sandinistas "succeed in consolidating their power," then "all the countries in Latin America, who all face serious internal economic problems, will see radical forces emboldened to exploit these problems"..Shultz said democracy is on the rise in Central America, and he cited El Salvador, Honduras and Guatelama. ''Nicaragua is the odd man out. Nicaragua is the cancer, and we must cut it out,'' he said. (AP)
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The technical meaning of the term "democracy" can be understood here.

Horhey · Aug 30, 2012

Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive

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