Nicaragua
Sir,—The , United States Secretary of State, Mr Haig, may well call the “situation” in Nicaragua “very, very disturbing.” After two centuries of U.S. backing for the corrupt, brutal, minority regimes of Central America the worm has finally turned. The Sandinista Liberation Front, representing the vast majority of Nicaraguans from the politically Left and Right, has carried out many reforms ranging from land redistribution to the famous literacy crusade, which saw the illiteracy rate drop from 54 per cent to 12 per cent in just six months. Mr Haig sees the spread of liberty, justice and self-determination as a threat to United States domination of the area, and desperately needed loans from United States banks and the World Bank to Nicaragua have been stopped. The United States fought her War of Independence on far more tenuous grounds than those of Nicaragua and more latterly those of El Salvador but it seems time gives revolution an aura of respectability.—Yours, etc., GRAEME YARDLEY. November 14, 1981.
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