'THE INVASION is on,' Senor Francisco d'Escoto, THE SAMDIN PEOPLES Andy de la Tour, representing the Solidarity Campaign, spoke to the meeting: Nicaragua's GNF is now Forty cent * spent on defence. In order to do this, has to take resources other areas ecnomy. It has had to take, in une last year, some sev. erely drastic measures.
sidies — the cornerstone their aericultural policy. It has effectively stopped health centres, schools. and many other 'Such measures bear some resemblance to the austerity policies that the IMF ensures its client states in Latin carry out. In the Dominican Republic, for such measures riots against the government, but in Nicaragus there is increasing support for the government.
Because these decisions something more fundemental has happened because in the final not about the specific social reforms. he major conquest of the revolution is the conquest from fear.
"The people know their government won't negotiate that, they have undertaken historic change and they know it, they have seized destiny into their own hands'.
*Nicaragua can make no more concessions there's only sovereignty left that's negotiable. The US has also run out of options the trade embargo won't work, the won't collapse, the contras are base - there is no doubt invasion is on the agenda.'