agent of the CIA received subsidies for the social democratic govern ment of Michael Manley, This on March 1972 The parallel between La Prensa and the other two papers is very obvious.
- Another theme of the destabilisation campaign is in relation to the Miskito Indians the Atlantic Coast. After the fall of the Somoza dictatorship on 16 July 1979, the Sandinistas made several serious mistakes which they themselves recognise.
1 ney tried incorporate the Miskitos into tne revolunonary process too quickly, and as a consequence anatel of them and their leaders. That region of the country has never really been fully integrated into the mainstream the economic and political life or tne country Steadman Fagoth, agent Somoza before the Sandinista victory, has set up a radio station in Honduras which broadcasts to the Miskitos their OWI lallcuare.
The aim of these broadcasts is to create trying get them believe that they will lose their lands and cultural identity by being tegrated into the revoluThe result is that 5,000 Miskitos out of a total of 130,000 -have crossed …HON -duras and established camps on that side of the border.
When was in Sergio Rodriquez, Revolucionario ternational Viewpoint. In Mexico, what is your estimate of the situation In EI Salvador following the March 7 The situation facing, the Salvadoran people and the other peoples in the region in many ways more dangerous after the elec. tion. However, we do not think that direct U.S. intervention is as immediate a threat as it was before. The and OCCODHCH following them have shown that the U.S. still has cards in the zone that it can play.
A direct intervention is its last card, and it would be an extremely costly one to play, not only because of the impact Latin America but in the U.S itself.
The vote in the elections was higher than exNicaragua I learned that the camps organised by Steadman ar used for military training and that any Miskitos who want to go back to Nicaragua are transferred to concentrakept virtual prisoners Since November, these raids have claimed a hundred victims the army and popular militias.
The Nicaraguans have •a leader of the Partido de los Trabajadores (PRT The text has been translated and edited by In.
pected, in particular in th regions along the borde Honduras. Tha seems to reflect a certair beginning of demoralisa tion among sections of th population in the face o the violence of the con flict.
Of course, there was high level of intimidation In the cities, for example workers had to show proo that they had voted or lost their jobs.
At the same time, th elections showed both disillusion the government among sector: that still do not suppor sharper class polarisation The Christian Democrats were in fact defeated, and. this meant the failure whole project Testablis bourgeois rule EI proposed that they constitute con 1101 DalI Ol. alulle frontier to prevent the incursions and to preve - if they exist - the ent of arms in El Salvador.
Steadman Fagot doesn't himself have tr means to finance the rad station and the camps i Honduras. Decemb 1981 he was injured in a accident in an Hondura military vehicle which w
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Revolutionary Workers Party, Mexican section of the Fourth International), gave the following interview to Gerry Foley in Paris in mid-May.
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