By Andy de la Tour THERE are widespread fears in Nicaragua of an imminent invasion. Events have been coming to a head in recent weeks to give speculation that there may be a major military offensive before revolutionary smen trained and armed by the Honduran army under the direct control of Washington.
The scope of the USA's complicity In tne counter-revolutionary Dima-up was snown to Enc world in a Newsweek artiCATACTC War', published November. article Nicaragua itself has been documented for a long time that the several thousand strong counterrevolutionary army that engages in a permanent war of attrition along the Honduran border is directly organisca ov Ine USA.
fuel to Christmas by the counterSomocista ex-National GuardUS Ambassador to Honduras, John Negroponte, is, in effect. the military commander of the Somocistas although Honduran army personnel act as intermediaries. Since December 1981 Reagan has authorised the CIA to contact dissident Nicaraguans exile, mostly ex-soldiers of the defeated Nicaraguan dictator, Somoza, and to conduct political and military operations.
These operations have now reached the stage where a fully equipped and Nicaraguan militia in training trained counterrevolutionary army primed for an invasion. In the words SO OCT - We have a lot of old scores to settle an e Sandinistas; there'll be a trail of blood to Managua The Nicaraguan people have some scores to settle too. They have not forgotten the monstrous crimes of the dictatorship and the terror perpetrated by the National Guard before 19 July 1979. The people are fully mobilised through Sandinista Popular Militia to fight alongside the full-time Sandinista People's Army.
grealest danger, though, to the Nicaraguan people the somocistas. It comes tron the very real threat than an invasion would give Washington the pretext to send in the marines on the grounds of "peacekeeping' This is the US Administration's plan and the Tact that a large contingent of US marines have been recently sent to Lebanon without any widespread protest inside the United States has no doubt boosted fidence.
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