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Sir .—Concerning Dr Schlenker's letter 1 in the May 1985 AJDC , I, too, am one of the "growing number of US physicians who are becoming interested in the medical conditions of our nearby neighbors in Central America." I have not attended a medical conference in Nicaragua nor been on one of the seemingly popular "fact-finding tours" there, but I have spent more than four months in northeastern Honduras, about 40 miles from the Nicaraguan border, working among the Miskito Indian people. The tens of thousands of refugees there have a quite different perception of conditions in Nicaragua than does Dr Schlenker. The Miskito, the largest of the Indian groups of the Caribbean coastlands, are a devout and independent people. During the revolution, they were originally aligned with the Sandinistas, but, shortly after the Sandinistas took power, the Miskito leaders were gathered together on a false pretext and imprisoned. This was |
