Chavez Victory: Defeat for Bush Policy

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>> cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/20/04 10:26 AM >>>
CB: In 1979, when Carter was President, he winked at the Sandinista
insurrection in Nicaragua, allowing them to take power. There had been
an
assassination of an American camera man by the Somozistas military
caught on
camera and shown on U.S. television that contributed to Carter's
hesitation
to act to stop the Sandinistas. In broadcasting the murder of the
American
camera man, the U.S. news media was still hanging out in Viet
Nam/Watergate,
relative free-style.
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person who was murdered was abc news producer bill stewart...

charles, surely you jest in saying that carter let sandinistas take
power...michael hoover

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CB: Oh I think you are asking me do I mean Carter did it on purpose, as
affirmatively trying to help the Sandinistas. No. I just mean he hesitated.
He didn't send in troops as in Guatemala in 1954 or the Dominican Republic
in 1965,or even Nicaragua in the 1920's when Sandino was resisting and
rising.    His hesitation , whether accidental or not, was a qualitatively
different response than in the past and probably was a but for cause of the
Sandinistas taking power.

Similarly, here whether he is doing it on purpose or not. By coming out and
saying the election was fair, it is an inch that the Venezuelan movement
might take a mile.