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Socialist Challenge No. 235, 4 March 1982 · p. 7 of the scan · 357 words

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Miles seeking to overthrow those governments was opened public celebration in Florida on 27 December.

Some sections of the Honduran army have been operating counter-revolutionaries. On 29 December a Honduran army plane crashed Puerto Lempira, just outside on Honduras Atlantic coast Among those on the plane was Steadman Fagoth, a This 'coast' comprises the entire eastern bo per cent of the country but has cent of the On HE-DEE It is a totally separate reality culturally, linguistically, and historically.

The Atlantic coast was affected by the Spanish Conquest which took olace in the rest of the region in the 16th cen tury. The first visitors of any number or frequency were English buccaneers by the pro-US President of Nicaracua Zelava The indigenous people have never since really the territorial boundaries created by the Europeans and 'The Mosquitia extended Honduras. People Rio Coco and families lived and farmed on both sides.

All during the Somocista years the Atlantic coast was more or Victory Immediately after the victory, the few American companies stil operating on the coast either pulled out or were nationalised The new government was faced factories and disrepair unavailability of spare parts, and a lack of trained management and technical personnel. HITO the population's low MISURASATA (Miskito, Rama, Sumo which has been formed with the of the FSLN after the victory. Throuch this action the Sandinistas helped to make Fagoth a hero to the Miskito people February 1981 agoth and other leader f MISURASATA were a rested. Fagoth was accus ed of fostering counterravo monary plans broadcasts received all along the coast and there is no effec tive combat to this pro paganda Communica tions media is almost nonexistent. Bluefields only place on ine Amanne coast with telephone and ed principally from Costa Rical.

There are "and, in newspapers Many receiving electricity for the first time The revolution is strug gling to meet the needs o the indigenous people but the need for a military presence 803ASI the counter-revolutionary acuvity neigntens real dangers for the people have called for interna tional observers to go into the area and tell the world the real situation

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