Why drone on about Nicaragua's President being a "former Marxist guerrilla"? What on earth does that have to do with the canal?
This really gets so damned old.
Sane people can see right through this obsessive attempt to control public perception.
Why didn't Reuters also remind us that the U.S. CIA illegally mined Nicaragua's harbors? Trained, outfitted, financed the Contras to try to overthrow the government after a sustained pattern of torture, murder, terrorism?
Here's the little reminder of that time. It's a wonder the CIA mines didn't blast a canal through for Nicaragua already!
The Miami Herald
July 27, 2001
Honduran: I mined Nicaragua harbors for CIA
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
A former Honduran military officer recently arrested in the United States for alleged human rights atrocities denies that he killed or tortured people. But he admits he
helped to mine the harbors of Nicaragua during the 1980s Contra war as part of a covert operation with the CIA and then-White House national security aide Oliver North.
In the first interview with a human rights abuse suspect since the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service began detaining alleged persecutors last year, Nelson de Jesús Vallejo says his arrest June 26 amounts to a betrayal on the part of the U.S. government.
``It's a sad turn of events,'' said the former Honduran air force officer from jail in Fort Lauderdale. ``I helped the CIA and Oliver North in a very sensitive operation and this is how this country pays me back. I am being abandoned and betrayed because of a change in policy.''
FOREIGN OPERATIVES
Vallejo's case may prove to be a textbook example of how the United States recruited foreign operatives during Cold War-era covert actions in Central America and how these agents later used U.S.-supplied visas to enter this country and stay illegally.
Vallejo said the Honduran air force's personnel office procured his U.S. tourist visa in the 1980s and placed it on his passport, a document he used in 1991 to flee
Honduras and illegally immigrate to the United States.
His alleged involvement in the harbor mining project has nothing to do with his troubles with the INS. During his initial claim for amnesty in the United States, Vallejo told federal authorities he had been involved in death squads.
More:
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/honduras/contra-mining.htm
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