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Here Reagan's strategy clear. Disrupt agriculture to reduce furforeign exchange alienate sections of the peasantry and increase shortages of basic foodstuffs; undermine the manufacture goods (60 per cent of which is owned by private capital) in order to alienate middle-class consumers in the make increasingly workable the Sandinista's prepare resistance to a military invasion by knocking out the country's oil, energy and communications systems.
More than ever these measures show that Reagan's objective has nothing to do with "restraining' the Sandinista's march towards Leninist totalitarianism' and 'international subversion'. It has everything to do with militarily destroying the second free territory of the Americas. this perspective the Nicaraguan private sector becomes wholly dispensable. So do even pragmatic hawks in the US administration like Langhorne quietly left his job Undersecretary of State for American Affairs for 'wholly private 'military' reasons' just before the blockade was announced, to be replaced by yuppy super-hawk Elliot Abrams, who become made no secret of his eagerness to have earnings, a go at the Sandinistas.
has two parts. Firstly, not whilst the Sandinistas maintain their response of combining mobilisation of their mass support devastating skill at winning friends and un- influencing people in the most unlikely 'mixed quarters abroad. Secondly, and this is the crucial point for us, not whilst the Danalyst international solidarity movement can make it clear to Nicaragua's wavering "friends' amongst economic establishments that their own people will not stand for Reagan's only other option: annihilation of the Nicaraguan "Ivarxist- people and their revolution.
The Spanish given us a magnificant example in this direction. Now it is down to all of us.
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