* Yanqui Doodle got its way
* In Nicaragua's vote
* but take a look at all
* We've done
* Before you start to gloat.
* Yanqui Doodle kept them
* down
* Yanqui Doodle's million$
* Mined their harbors, cut off
* trade,
* And paid to kill civilians.

* Yanqui Doodle promised
* them
* If they elect Chamorro
* The contra thugs and em-
* bargo
* Would be called off tomor-
* row.
* Vote results cause much
* surprise
* At Nicaraguan's views
* But yanqui Doodle made
* an offer
* They could not refuse.

* Yanqui Doodle gets its way
* By hook or else by crook
* And when it comes to
* Covert tricks
* The U.S. wrote the book
* Yanqui Doodle breaks the
* law
* Thinks that it's just dandy
* When we're censured by
* world courts
* Our power comes in handy

Chomsky, on the "free" Nicaraguan elections of 1990:

[...] The most interesting point, however, is the third. [that the elections in 1990 in Nicaragua were considered "free"]

Suppose that the USSR were to follow the U.S. model as the Baltic states declare independence, organizing a proxy army to attack them from foreign bases, training its terrorist forces to hit "soft targets" (health centers, schools, etc.) so that the governments cannot provide social services, reducing the economies to ruin through embargo and other sanctions, and so on, in the familiar routine. Suppose further that when elections come, the Kremlin informs the population, loud and clear, that they can vote for the CP or starve. Perhaps some unreconstructed Stalinist might call this a "free and fair election." Surely no one else would. [...]

From:

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		By Noam Chomsky, Z magazine, 3/90


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