Nicaragua, Civil Liberties, and U.S. Policy

In mid-October the Nicaraguan government announced a suspension of civil liberties, including the rights to free expression, free assembly, and privacy in the use of postal services. With these measures has come a new stringency in the censorship of the press. As democrats we are obliged to condemn the government’s action: we believe that such measures can only be justified, by a legitimate government, under a threat to the very survival of the country itself in time of war. This justif...