Noam Chomsky on Central America

March 2, 1988 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... Watch the full lecture: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/noam-chomsky-on-reagan-administra...

Location: Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a case heard in 1986 by the International Court of Justice which ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States. As part of its judgment, the International Court of Justice awarded reparations to Nicaragua. The International Court of Justice found that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting Contra guerrillas in their war against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors. The United States refused to participate after the Court rejected its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. The US later blocked enforcement by the Security Council, making Nicaraguan attempts at obtaining compliance futile.

The court found in its legal verdict that the US was "in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State," "not to intervene in its affairs," "not to violate its sovereignty," "not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce," and "in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956."

The court had 16 final decisions which it voted upon. In Statement 9, the court stated that the U.S. encouraged human rights violations by the Contras by the manual entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. However, this did not make such acts attributable to the U.S.

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[flaneurdilettante]

@akoolbhatt you mean 22 years ago?

[akoolbhatt]

HOLY CRAP....so that's how he looked 30 years ago.