Pinter interview in the Guardian

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If you're looking after the day of posting, Feb 14, this linke will probably have expired, but you should be able to find the interviews with a search for their names on the Guardian homepage (www.guardian.co.uk).

In the meantime:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1730313,00.html

[Maduro_Scotty]

It is a good interview, no doubt about that. The Nobel speech is one that I read and I agree about truth and the arts as far as that part goes. The political analogy was a bit of a leap and that's where I believe that he did somewhat of an injustice to the issue as he left out some important information. While he was quick to blame America and what we did in Nicaragua, he totally washed over the atrocities committed by the Sandanistas.


According to the Nicaraguan Commission of Jurists, the Sandinistas carried out over 8,000 political executions within three years of the revolution. The number of "anti-revolutionary" Nicaraguans who had "disappeared" in Sanadinista hands or had died "trying to escape" were numbered in the thousands. By 1983, the number of political prisoners in the Sandinistas' ruthless tyranny were estimated at 20,000. Torture was institutionalized.
Source (http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=180)

The Contras may have not been Nobel peace prize winners, but in certain regions of the world, life is not a philosophy class with creature comforts of life around one's life in the village. Looking for hypocrisy is one thing, but I believe that over looking the abuses of others is not a very responsible thing. :bad: