United Brands: the National Guard Has Razed Entire Neighborhoods
Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 6, Number 26, July 3, 1979 On Saturday, the Mexican proposal with minor What happened to Bill Stewart also occurred in modifications was passed by the body. Vance's propos Chinandega, Masaya, Leon, Rivas, and the barrios of als were quietly withdrawn without a vote. Managua during the past few days and weeks. Wherever Undeterred, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown the National Guard of Anastasio Somoza has passed, appeared on NBC's Issues and Answers the next day in cities and hundreds of smaller villages, there are repeating that an interamerican peace-keeping force in almost no males between the ages of 16 and 25. Those Nicaragua "is still conceivable." that did not join the FSLN have been executed as rebel On Monday, Carter "volunteered" U.S. aid. "suspects." "We do not take prisoners," one National On Tuesday morning, Brown, CIA Director Stans Guard officer told reporters earlier this month. fieJd Turner, National Security Council Advisor Zbig In some areas, civilians remaining in towns recap niew Brzezinski, Vice President Walter Mondale and tured by the Guard were simply rounded up at gunpoint ' Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher met to and shot, under the rationale that they must be Sandi decide a course of action on Nicaragua following the nista "sympathizers." In other villages, Somoza's troops OAS defeat. The decision: Somoza must go. entered chanting anti-Somoza slogans-anyone who That afternoon, Undersecretary of State for Latin came out to greet them was gunned down. In yet America Viron Vaky testified before a House committee another case, a town's professionals-lawyers, doctors, that "no possible negotiation, mediation, or solution" business-were lined up for inspection.
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