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RONNIE! visit to the United States before he was denied re-entry into Nicaragua.
Aside from calling for dialogue and appeasement with the contras, La Prensa has often published false reports. Its fabricated stories were not only designed to inflame the population, but to actually begin to organize them into specific destabilization actions.
For example, it once completely invented a story that there was a sugar shortage. This led to a flurry of hoarding which, indeed, did create a shortage and a minor panic inside the country.
Join fall antiwar protests Despite all this, the contras have failed to gain a popular base inside Nicaragua. Instead, the politically weak, exiled former rulers have had to function through the official church under Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, La Prensa, opposition bourgeois political parties, and small AFLCIO-sponsored unions such as the 2000member Confederation of Trade Union Unification (CUS).
None of these internal instruments of the contras have been sufficient to counter the mobilized power of the workers and peasants of Nicaragua, who remain com -mitted to carrying out the social revolution.
The determination of the people of Nicaragua to resist U.S. aggression must be matched by the mobilization of the American people. Polls indicate opposition to contra aid is running at two to one.
But the politicians in this country neither represent the interests nor the sentiments of the American people. None of the Democratic or Republican party politicians can be relied upon to stop the escalating "Cold War" scenario so reminiscent of the Vietnam era.
Just as we did to end the Vietnam war, we must appeal directly to the American people to help us build a massive movement capable of thwarting the plans of the warmakers in Washington. We urge our readers to join in demonstrations, rallies, and picketlines organized this fall to protest contra aid and U.S. inter -vention.—The Editors