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Berkeley Demonstrators Maltreated Thanks for the reminder to renew. I wouldn't want to be without NACLA. Also thanks for "being there" for my daughter and her friend when their awareness was...
...Latin American Drug Connection Just an idea...
...Maybe you could devote an issue to analyzing the flow of drugs into the United States-with a particular emphasis on the various Latin American connections...
...NACLA and Nairn--what a combination...
...You can count on me to encourage all my sister and brother "hacks" down here in Washington, D.C., to read it, devour it and memorize it...
...Since Report on the Americas rarely covers events in the Caribbean, I thought you might be interested in an update of events there...
...Since then, security threats have been met by a special police Security Squad, mandated since the Grenada crisis to keep both internal and exter2 nal order...
...In our meetings with Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista leadership as well as with Roger Gamble (deputy chief of mission, U.S...
...It created a wave of nationalistic pride similar to that Margaret Thatcher ignited with the short Malvinas/Falklands war...
...Wary of Major Media Your journal has been invaluable...
...thrust in the region appears more and more baldly as military...
...Embassy) and leaders of opposition parties, it was very helpful to be well informed...
...The bills sailed through the House of Assembly and took effect on February 20...
...Secretary of State Shultz has affirmed interest in an expansive "regional police force" of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados, envisioned to begin with about 1,800 troops and to cost $100 million...
...It is the kind of reporting we simply cannot get from the major media...
...Charles' Freedom Party introduced two bills in February...
...Many objected to the proposed legislation, and even the pro-Charles New Chronicle, the only newspaper published in Dominica, voiced reservations...
...how maintaining the drug trade might be put to domestic political use...
...Cindy M. Buhl Human Rights Coordinator, Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Washington, D.C...
...Charles has seized this opening to implant a string of measures which militarize or otherwise extend more authoritarian control over her country...
...The Dominican Army was disbanded in 1981 after a coup attempt on the civilian government...
...Joan C. Gilmore Venice, CA Praise for Nairn "Endgame" must be one of the best pieces of analysis I've read on Central America...
...after the Grenada invasion six military advisers were sent to train Dominican police, and several jeeps and a patrol boat were delivered...
...military aid before Reagan...
...Seventeen of the 21 House members belong to Charles' Freedom Party...
...Dominica did not receive U.S...
...Perhaps you could shed some light on how this drug capital is laundered...
...ties of the various Latin exile communities to the drug trade...
...Also thanks for "being there" for my daughter and her friend when their awareness was sparked into a flame by the maltreatment of demonstrators in Berkeley protesting in the streets this past year...
...John Fish Chicago, IL...
...any patterns of investment in Latin America (or the United States...
...I have recently returned from a week in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace...
...If there is one thing I learned in a visit as brief as one week, it is that we should be wary of major media interpretations of what is going on in Central America...
...An aid package from the United States, Canada and Great Britain is finally allowing the government to rebuild the badly dilapidated roads of the 300-square-mile island...
...New Role for Dominica I recently visited Dominica...
...No government action could be more universally popular...
...The main U.S...
...The State Security Act institutes citizens' arrest for espionage...
...She received an invitation to the White House in those heady weeks of the military action, and the aid faucet has been open since...
...In Dominica the invasion of Grenada was a striking success for the government of Prime Minister Eugenia Charles...
...Your Report, "Target Nicaragua" and your recent Report, "Endgame," provided me with background information I could not find elsewhere...
...the Treason Act allows death by hanging for those found plotting against the state...
...Many Dominicans are star-struck by the sudden notoriety their little country-usually confused with the Dominican Republic-received when Charles was spotlighted for her coordinating role in the Grenada invasion...
...There are six ex-soldiers appealing treason convictions...
...Randy Nyrkkanen Dearborn, MI See Pennyv Lernoux, "Golden Gateways Jfr Drugs: The Miami Connection," The Nation, February 18, for an excellent look at this subject-The Editors...
...The United States has become a major player in Dominican politics...
...Given the devastating social impact of this drug trade here, such an issue may prove invaluable to your readers...
...Jon Stein New York, NY The November-December 1984 issue of Report on the Americas will be devoted to developments in the Eastern Caribbean-The Editors...
...They are now "friends of NACLA," and I am proud of all three of you...
Vol. 18 • September 1984 • No. 5
