"The death toll [in Nicaragua] was equivalent in per capita terms to 2.25 million in the United States, greater than all wars in American history combined, including the Civil War."

He warned President Kennedy that "the distribution of land and other forms of national wealth greatly favours the propertied classes.....and the poor and underprivileged, stimulated by the example of the Cuban Revolution, are now demanding opportunities for a decent living."

"The official death toll.....is 3200. The actual toll is commonly estimated at about double that figure. As a proportion of the population, the corresponding figure for the US would be between 50,000 and 100,000. An official enquiry 30 years after the coup found evidence of 30,000 cases of torture-some 700,000 in the US equivalent."