El Salvador & Nicaragua INTRODUCTION This research compares the

The political environment in El Salvador, is relatively quite by Salvadoran standards. In recent weeks, the only major rebel activity has been the blowingup of one power station, which may be viewed as a raising of the flag to let the government know that the rebels remain a force capable of independent and significant action ("Rebels CutOff the Power in San Salvador," 1990). In Nicaragua, the political atmosphere is tense, without violence. The Contras are still dragging their feet on earlier commitments to turnin their arms; however, the new Chormoro government introduced policies designed to undercut the significant land reform actions of the former Sandinista government, which will return the country to Samoza eratype privilege, and provide land to the Contras ("Chormoro Reintroduces Samoza Policies," 1990). Together, these actions by the

2Chormoro government appear to be exerting some mollifying effect on the Contra bands.

There are two ties that bind the political events in Nicaragua and

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ed. Most Americans would have no difficulty in answering this underlying question with respect to Czechoslovakia in 1968 and France in the early1940s, and all too few Americans would give a second thought to the question before answering in the affirmative with respect to Panama in 1990. Whether or not American military intervention in a sovereign country is beneficial to that country, and, even if such intervention is beneficial, whether or not it can be justified on any basis other than selfish American interests are, however, serious questions which affect the longterm well being of both the United States and the countries in which they 7intervene. As questions with longterm significance, they do deserve more than a cursory examination, more than the regurgitation of an automatic answer in the affirmative. With the exception of countries such as Panama and Cuba, where the United States claims leasing rights, and countries such as Germany and Japan, where American troop stationing is covered by mutual defense treaties, American armed forces have spent more time in Nicaragua than in any other country. When worldwide public opinion restrained the Reagan Administration from sending American troops in to overthrow th
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