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 Vance's propos­ Chinandega, Masaya, Leon, Rivas, and the barrios of als were quietly withdrawn without a vote.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. Those with dirt exists while "he [Somoza] remains in power." under their fingernails were charged with having col­ . By Wednesday, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Cald­ laborated with the Sandinistas, and shot. eron Fournier announced Somoza could possibly resign Entire villages have been wiped off the map with within "hours," and a new be government named. Two napalm. Thousands of women and children have been Iik�ly candidates to replace Somoza are reported in the slaughtered· during National Guard saturation bomb­ Mexican press, both from Somoza's Liberal Party and ings and artillery barrages using nerve gas, 500-pound the N�aguan "Congress." bombs, and antipersonnel shrapnel shells known as -Gretchen Small "pac-pac" bombs. In the capital of Managua, most of which the FSLN controls, three-quarters of the popu­ lation has been deliberately left without water, food, electricity, and over 60,000 have been left homeless as , United Brands: the National Guard has razed entire neighborhoods. The Sandinista-held eastern portion of Managua has drug runners been under incessant shelling for almost a week. Epi­ .demics of gastroenteritis and polio are now spreading through the city. behind Somoza As Mexican Foreign Minister, Jorge Castaneda, asserted at last week's OAS meeting, Somoza reminds In a gruesome scene brought vividly into millions of the world of the worst days of the "Nazi fury." American homes by television cameras last week, a All told, since the F�LN began its latest campaign Nicaraguan Nation.al almost one month ago to rid their country of the Guardsman calmly walked up to ABC reporter Bill Stewart,. casually lifted his semi­ Somoza dictatorship, at least 25,000 civilians have died, automatic rifle, and opened fire at point-blank range. and 150,000 have been left homeless. Sickening as this spectacle was, it was merely another Yet this devastation is only the most recent in "incident" among countless others like it that have' decades of similar Somoza actions against Nicaragua. occurred daily in Nicaragua during recent months. The Since it· was installed in power 46 years ago with the sight of an unarmed man having his skull blasted open help of a U.S. Marine occupation force, the oligarchic by National Guard executioners has been witnessed by Somoza family has brutally enforced the most backward untold thousands of Nicaraguans. What happened to social and economic underdevelopment imaginable on Bill Stewart has also happened to thousands of Nicar­ this country of little more than two million inhabitants. aguans .. In 1933, Gen. Anastasio Somoza, the late father of the In the city of Esteli two months ago, when the current dictator, minced no words in describing the National Guard recaptured it from the Sandinista Na­ lengths his regime would go to in order. to maintain its tional Liberation Front (FSLN)" wounded Sandinistas feudal order; "I will pacify this country," he said, "even as well as civilians were dragged from their beds in the if I have to kill every other Nicaraguan to do it." His . local hospital and shot in the street. Those unable to son is now attempting to fulfill that promise. walk were shot in their beds or on the operating table. These atrocities' are committed with the full com­ Then the hospital's doctors were herded into the plicity of the Carter administration. They have nothing street and machine-gunned. to do with making Central America "safe for democ- July 3-July 9, 1979 EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE REVIEW Latin America 43 © 1979 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. racy" or saving Nicaragua from "communism." The And like their predecessors, they run dope. According Somoza regime, "friend" of America, is merely impos­ to U.S. drug enforcement authorities, an estimated 25 ing regressive International Monetary Fund "condi­ percent of the cocaine that enters the United States tionalities" on Nicaragua, and is protecting 80 years of annually is smuggled on United Brands' ships. drug trafficking into the United States. The Somoza The seemy history of United Brands/United Fruit family and its personal military machine is and has leads straight into the board rooms of Zionist banking been nothing other than the enforcer for the Central houses in London and New York, which for generations American branch of what is known internationally as have served as the hand-pic\<ed "court Jews" for the Dope, Incorporated. murkier operations of the British nobility. From there, The key vehicle for Dope, Inc.'s activities, in Nica­ it leads into the back-rooms of American organized ragua and throughout Central America and the Car­ crime, whose leading figures include Max Fisher, acting ibbean, has been that notorious multinational enter­ chairman and chief executive officer of United Brands prise, the United Fruit Company. from 1975 to 1978 and Detroit Zionist Lobby kingpin cited by authorities as the leading conduit for narcotics into the U.S. midwest. The story of United Fruit also "Yanqui imperialism?" overlaps with such entities as the Sonneborn Institute, which was instrumental in the founding of the Israeli It is common knowledge among Latin American polit­ intelligence agency, Mossad, during the I 940s. Delving ical leaders and historians that the Somoza family was yet deeper, one finds the likes of U.'Davids'on, a known installed by the United Fruit Company (UFCo), as was international arms smuggler and recruiting agent for every other "banana republic" dictatorship in Central mercenaries. Intimately connected at every level of the America and the Caribbean since the turn of the cen­ development of United Fruits are the top-names of the tury. There is no lack of documentary evidence on how Meyer Lansky Zionist mob, and the original Core of United Fruit brought to bear its private navy, known the New Orleans-based Sicilian mafia, on down to the as the "Great White Fleet" -the largest private flotiIIa "button men" who carried out the assassination of in the world-its intelligence apparatus-more exten­ John F. Kennedy and made countless other "hits" and sive that that of most governments-and its huge attempts on Central American leaders. financial resources, in such countries as Nicaragua, To its "credit," United Fruit so far this century has Guatemala, EI Salvador, and Honduras. engineered two Marine invasions of Nicaragua, a war However, it has long been assumed in Latin America between Honduras and EI Salvador, an attempted Ni­ that United Fruit-rechartered as United Brands in caraguan invasion of Costa Ri'ca thirty years ago, and 1970-was a creation of "yanqui imperialism." Nothing more than a dozen coups d'etat. In the bloodbath that could be further from the truth. followed the Company's 1954 coup against the repub­ United Fruit, known as "The Octopus" by Central lican Arbenz forces in Guatemala, 35,000 people were Americans, was consciously established during the first murdered by death squads. Another 40,000 to 50,000 decade of this century as a "clone" of the colonialist have been killed by repressive rampages in EI Salvador British East India Company, which plundered the.Asian and Honduras. When added to the deaths suffered­ reaches, China and the Indian subcontinent for 300 under Somoza in Nicaragua, it is safe to estimate that years and set up the international opium trade networks United Fruit's commitment to preserve "banana repub- _ that survive down to the present day. lics" and obliterate all potential for the development of This was not a "company" in a capitalist sense. It sovereign nations modeled on America's own founding was a crown-franchise, acting only on the basis of principles has taken hundreds of thousands of lives British crown policy. 'Just so, the United Fruit Com­ during the last 25 years alone. pany. The British oligarchy, grouped around their King This is the story of United Fruit: it is the anathema or Queen, extended their East India Co. to the Western of everything the American republic ever stood for.