Just day before the blockade was announced, the Interracional put Nicaraguan Barricada published the following analysis of Reagan's options for rolling back the Nicaraguan revolution.
According to a classified report Congress and pub lished in The New York Times, the administration has not dismissed the possibility cf armed intervention in The document states that although the White House publicly claims that negotiations are of the 'very firs order, it really believes that only direct pressure, by expanding the counterrevolutionary forces Nicaragua's northern and southern borders, can force Managua to to demands. The principal task, in Reagan's vision is the 'removal' of the San dinistortom power us.
According to politica at this moment the government could very well be stuthe following options as steps prior to an intervention • continued financing of the con tras through third countries; • breaking off diplomatic relations with the Nicaraguan govern ment and imposing an economic blockade, as recently advocated by Secretary of State George an interview with The New York Post; • recognition of a 'government in exile' made up by counterrevolu. tionary leaders and 'civic opposition figures; • intensification of the activities aimed at destabilising Nicaragua's domestic situation • increase of directed against