Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 18:00:50 -0800
From: CEP  <iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Understanding Nicaragua



    This is a message to Louis Proyect:

    1. I will answer the questions you raised in the posting            
    Understanding Nicaragua and I will directly answer the
    theoretical questions you raised, particularly those
    related to what we would have proposed to  do instead of
    what was done by the FSLN.  I will, however, your indulgence
    because I have no enough time right now.

    2. I would like to share with you two things that happened
    today and that, in my opinion will close one of the discussions
    we are having:

    a.  I went today, as a guest and an allied, to a press conference
    organized by the CONIPOE (Coordinated Committee of the Nicaraguans
    in Exile), maybe the most important Nicaraguan organization in the
    US.  I went there representing the Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI)
    to launch together a campaign to stop the deportation of 40,000
    Nicaraguans living in the US -- they war permits will end in June   
    and the INS announced that will start deportations on July 1,

    The news media (both Spanish and English were there-- many of them)
    and it was good to find myself, once again, working together with
    Sandinistas, former Sandinistas, supporters of Chamorro and 
    independent Nicaraguans (many of them) who were there.  After the
    press conference we engaged each other in a very productive         
    dialogue and a friend of mine, a former Sandinista, handled me 
    a press clip that I almost have forgotten: 

        "The Simon Bolivar Brigade fought heroically during the
        Civil War in Nicaragua.  The compas who died gave their
        lives for the cause of Internationalism and of the people
        of Nicaragua.  We honor them and we always remember them
        with affection and gratitude.

        "After the civil war we have differences with the compas...
        we no always dealt with those differences appropriately,
        we were not experts ...we made mistakes."

        Commander Henry Ruiz, National Leadership of the FSLN, Clarin,
        1984

    b. The decision to expell the Brigade came directly from Commander
       Eden Pastora.  You know what happened with him, do you?


    Let's discuss other matters.

    Cheers!

    Carlos


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