I have spent months at a time over the last two years fighting alongside the freedom commandos of ARDE-Southern Front and wish to correct the massive and all-too-typical disinformation put out by Michael Fessier ("An American Contra," May 31) about a country and war zone he has quite obviously never visited.
First and most important, the Southern Front is and will continue to be the dominant force in the south of Nicaragua. It consists of 4,000 young Nicaraguans who have been fighting for the last six years along with their commanders to expel the Cuban and Soviet military machine that is attempting to colonize Nicaragua through depopulation, mass murder, rape, imprisonment and, in the case of the southern Indians, genocide. Our combat zones were deep inside Nicaragua; the only people who used to hang out on the Costa Rican border were the less motivated or cowardly slugs who weren't interested in fighting.
