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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (13880)6/7/2004 11:11:46 AM
From: Richnorth  Read Replies (1) of 14610
 
Ronald Reagan was a great president to many folks like you.

But, to the Nicaraguans in general and the Sandinistas in particular, Reagan was a cruel and heartless man.
Whilst espousing and extolling freedom and democracy, he was the very antithesis of what he was popularly
known for where Nicaragua was concerned. Not only did Reagan help to topple the popularly elected Sandinista
government there by funding and supplying the Contras (euphemistically called "Freedom Fighters"), with profits
from arms sales to Iran, he ensured that Nicaragua was destroyed economically thereafter. Result: today Nicaragua
is a pale shadow of its former self, and poverty and sickness are evident everywhere; all this thanks to the man
many have adopted as their venerable "Grandpa".

Why did the US "destroy" Nicaragua politically (in the 1980s) and economically? Simply because the US feared that the
venturesome spirit set by the Sandinistas might spark other Central American countries into asserting their
themselves. With the Cold War still on and the US subconsciously overrating the might and capabilities of the
"Evil Empire", any breakaway Central American country was not to be tolerated..................................

FWIW, here's an interesting read:-

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