Invasion | Socialist Action 1983

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Campaign Whether or not this is the beginning of a larger scale invasion is not clear. What is clear is that it is part of a longer term campaign to bring down the Sandinista government masterminded Washington and organised by the CIA Honduras.

It is the most serious incursion yet by the counter-revolutionary 'Somocista' forces, mainsmen who fled the counthe Somoza was overthrown.

The Nicaraguan revolution July 1979 gave a massive impulse to the struggle against the rulPhoto: CARLOS AUGUSTO GUERITA (Photon) camps from which to launch incursions.

The US administration Sandinistas over three vears ago.

Reagan's first national security advisor Richard Allen was put in charge of the operation, and worked committee with Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his assistant Thomas O. Enders.

Train This committee was responsible for the plan to organise coull® revolutionary invasion force, and the assistance of Argentina was sought to train the force in HonTens of thousands train in the Nicaraguan people's militias. operation in Honduras is John Negroponte.

Preparations for an invasion were stepped earlier this year when 1600 US troops collaborated in a got exercise will Honduran army just seven miles from the Nicaraguan border — operation Pine'.

Vast military equipment from the Big Pine exercise were left by the forces for the use by the Somocista forces.

The ideological backup to the US's escalating war Central America and the dangers of revolution throughout America which describes as 'a threat to the entire hemisphere'.

Whether

prescue mcursion turns out to be a full scale invasion, a dress rehearsal or merely a testing raid, the intention couldn't clearer the *Big the dinista government.

Reports Managua say 'the companeros are leavine their desks and re-joining their US defence units' If the fighting escalates major mobilisation movement defence of Nicaragua will has Central The Western not the GUATEMALA be military SanEL SALVADOR of incursion into Nicaragua.

HONDURAS CENTRAL AMERICA 150 people were mobilised last Sunday by supporters of Socialist Action and the Socialist Teachers Alliance to protest outside the American embassy against the

OPERATION

'BIG PINE' 'FIGHTING OF ZONE ESTELI MANAGUA COSTA RICA

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Socialist Action 25 March 1983 By John Bloxam and Alan Freeman. Press