The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
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