Letter: In Brief

Sir, I really must hand it to Dr Rachel Sider (Podium, 28 September). She manages to discuss political violence in Latin America without once referring to the real instigators of this violence - the government of the United States of America. Her concept of "truth and reconciliation" and "naming the guilty" does not extend to them, but only to their puppets in the military apparatus of countries which are nothing more than colonies of US business corporations.

PAUL LOCKWOOD

Cambridge