Trade with Chile
Sir,—Passionate advocacy of trade with Chile has led Peter Johnson into the realm of fantasy (June 15). Usually, the Guinness Book of Records demands documented proof of all claims, and none has ever been put forward authenticating the C.1.A.-concocted lie that “Chinese Communists are the greatest mass-murderers in human history.” Significant!v.
since. America discovered a vast, new market in China, we are no longer fed such crude propaganda. Amnesty International says Cuba's human rights record is good, and. by comparison . with the vicious Batista regime it displaced, exemplary. However, for the third successive year Amnesty has condemned ’EI Salvador and Chile as the world’s worst violators of human rights. W.H.O. and Oxfam say Cuba's economic and social progress in the last two decades is the best in Central America — full employment, cheap and universal health care, the area’s lowest infant mortality, and the highest number of schools and literates per capita.— Yours, etc., M. T. MOORE. June 16, 1982.
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