Nicaraguans
Sir,—ln these days of heightened consciousness about racial stereotyping, Reporter’s Diary today slipped up badly in its item on the showing of the film “Missing.” To describe all Latins as hot blooded must be the oldest cliche of all time. It was certainly not the result of an overactive “hotblooded” Latin imagination that made the Nicaraguans think their ports were being mined by the C.I.A. — the C.I.A. has just admitted it. The use of the words communist or Marxist to describe all Nicaraguans has also become a
cliche. If anyone, like the Nicaraguans, who cares about freedom, justice and decent standards of living for the poor, is by definition a communist, then there must be a lot of New Zealanders who have never belonged to a communist party, or read Marxist theory, who must be so defined as well.—Yours, etc..
LYN JACKSON. April 13, 1984.
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