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Sinlaterra, Aurelio
We encourage our readers to send letters of commentary on past Reports to initiate a dialogue on the issues we cover-or fail to cover. Most of the mail we get is of the "keep up the good work"...
...But now that I'm acJohn Carroll tively involved in Latin America soliDuluth, MN darity work, I not only enjoy the Re"port, I need it...
...Department of State spokesman explained that Congress had been asked to authorize the expenditure of $21 million for the improvement of airfield facilities in the Caribbean...
...The sentences were long, complex, filled with clause upon clause...
...I found the "Target Nicaragua" issue [Jan-Feb 1982] almost impenetrable...
...Colombia received no other kind of foreign aid from the U.S...
...government during these years...
...However, the [March 1982] issue of the magazine, Vainas de Macondo, states: "The U.S...
...The M-19 is the largest and most active guerrilla group in Colombia without debate...
...A spokesman at the Defense Department told NACLA at presstime that the allocation was pared to $13 million by Congress, all of which is being spent in Honduras.-Ed...
...In the MarchApril issue, [the] article, "Colombia -One More Death Squad" [contained] some unimportant and some important inaccuracies about the political reality in Colombia...
...While it's heartening and much appreciated, we do invite you to offer criticism of our viewpoints, additions to our analyses, comments on how you use our Reports and the like...
...First of all, when journalist Duzan was taken to the General Headquarters of the M-1 9 Southern Front, she did report on the death squad, but more important was the position the M-19 took with regard to the elections held in March and May of this year [M-19 commander Bateman promised to "sabotage" them...
...Most of the mail we get is of the "keep up the good work" variety...
...The election was not stopped, but the Left's abstention was higher than ever...
...H Readability On Trial I first found an issu when I was working workers' local in Your and later in Pittsburgh, PA...
...These pages belong to you...
...According to the New York Times on March 4, the aid request was disclosed by the Defense Department, not the State Department...
...U.S.] military aid to Colombia is the second highest in Latin America after El Salvador...
...NACLA has always been readable, and I am so thankful when I find well-written, concise, well-documented journalism...
...We will n getting our issues a litt are all as good as this An "Information Fix I find NACLA invalu American history in n high school...
...The "Steelyard Blues" issue [Jan-Feb 1979] was tremendous and I have been a subscriber ever since...
...The irony of that picture is that all the fighters showed have been killed at different places and at different times...
...Unfortunately, I couldn't find the evidence to support this at present...
...I would like to mention that in Colombia there are other guerrilla organizations that are operating in cities and rural areas: the National Liberation Army (ELN) with which Father Camilo Torres fought, the People's Liberation Army (EPL), with Maoist tendencies, the Workers' Self Defense (ADO), which works very closely with the M-19, FUPAG and ORP...
...The guerrillas had not been decimated [in the rural areas as the article stated] but rather hit...
...It le late if they used to be that I really enjoyed readone...
...It's a vital resource I use constantly, and since I'm sure able teaching that U.S...
...Their network had been broken several times, but the capacity of reproduction in cities has left even the repressive military apparatus of the government astonished...
...Benjamin Marcus Cordova, AK UV IU, Wa,- Need For The Report that country Your plea to "Send us a mesportantly, for sage" on the subscription envelope ot at all mind prompted me to include a note...
...Now] more than $30 million, the projection for 1983 with the new role given to Colombia by U.S...
...U.S...
...Honest But Tardy As always, your March-April issue on El Salvador is notable for its f UI k 1i +k kf I L ysis of the situation in and, perhaps most im its honesty...
...More than 50 actions of sabotage were carried out by the M-19 in the main cities of Colombia...
...foreign policy toward Latin ny suburban America will necessitate such work nts used my -and since I now have a job and vrote essays can afford it-I'm putting in for three ing concern years of the NACLA Report, the tin American athe tin American strongest vote of confidence for kids whose your work I could make...
...Charlottesville, VA . I [need it [or eather Cofttin Freeport, NY e of NACLA with a steelngstown, OH M-19 Hit But Not Decimated I have been reading NACLA for a long time, and its information is almost 100% accurate...
...Je been the Chris Campanile at the mall...
...ing the Report...
...The facts are that the FARC is the oldest guerrilla organization, but not the largest at present...
...Moreover, there was not a shift from urban areas to rural areas...
...All I know about the last two organizations is that they are non-aligned...
...imperialism in the CaribNACLARepod 44update update update update bean and Central America will be $125 million.* This amount has been widely published in Colombia and abroad...
...Not bad for major concerns hav prom or shopping Again, glad for NACL/ my "information fix...
...military appropriations for Colombia were $12.5 million and the 1983 request is for $12.9 million...
...Today their guerrilla movil, as they call it, operates in more than 70 places that include the major cities and towns of Colombia...
...He [Dean Fisher] was referring to Colombia and Honduras.** The map [with the article] showed only two areas (Choco and Caqueta) but very far from that, the M-19 is fighting in 13 provinces of Colombia...
...The picture [with the article] was taken by journalist Renato Menendez in 1967 when he interviewed the ELN in Santander del Sur...
...My stude copies as texts and v and reports evidenc and support for the La struggle...
...What is unacceptable is [the caption:] "CP-linked FARC has been most successful in recruiting peasants...
...But a little criticism never hurts...
...While the Pentagon declined to name the countries involved, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer offered, "We are talking specifically in this instance about Colombia and Honduras...
...It was part of the political military strategy that came during the discussion of the Sixth National Conference held in August of 1976...
...It is obvious that a clandestine organization is more exposed to be hit in the waves of repression in cities...
Vol. 16 • November 1982 • No. 6
