1. America, under the Democrats, moves closer and closer to what we fought.
2. Once the Sandinistas captured power in Nicaragua in July 1979, they immediately imposed
a ruthless dictatorship, complete with spy networks, a ‘Sandinista Defense Committee’ in each neighborhood, censored all publications, crushed trade unions, and seized the means of production. [see Pascal Fontaine, “Nicaragua: The Failure of a Totalitarian Project,” in Courtois et al., The Black Book of Communism, p. 665-675]
3.
The Sandinistas were influenced by three major trains of thought. First, and perhaps most heavily, they were influenced by the teachings of
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marx’s dialectical materialism, proletariat revolution, and rule by the workers seemed perfect and ingenious. The Sandinistas arrogantly viewed themselves as the catalyst of the proletariat revolution in Nicaragua.
Second, they were influenced by
Augusto Sandino, the aforementioned hero of the anti-US struggle. Sandino was a paternal character whose ideas were reflective of his pagan religion, his Marxist beliefs, and his close association with anarchism.
Finally, they were influenced by the
Christian Theology of Liberation. The Impact of the Sandinistas on Nicaragua
a. The Sandinistas, in the first few months of their sovereignty, ignored their promise of political democracy. They immediately set up a ruling junta, made up of five top Sandinista officials, including Daniel Ortega and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. And, as well, their promise of international nonalignment was violated: they allied with the Soviet Union and Cuba, receiving heavy financial and military aid from these countries. They grew more and more distant from the US and other capitalist nations. Ibid.
b. Equal parts of improved education and political oppression: they
carried out some eight thousand political executions in three years; and by 1983 they had over twenty thousand prisoners in their jails.
4. Similar to the Khmer Rouge,
forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Miskito Indians, and killed or imprisoned about fifteen thousand of them. Like Stalin, they used famine as a weapon against the ‘enemies of the people.’
Humberto Belli, “Breaking Faith,” p. 106-117.
a. By 1986,
a vicious and violent “resettlement program” forced some two hundred thousand Nicaraguans into 145 “settlements” throughout the country. This monstrous social-engineering program included the designation of “free-fire” zones, in which government troops had carte blanche to shoot and kill any peasant they spotted.
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5. The Left felt profoundly devastated by the victory of the Opposition Parties under Violeta Chamorro, who ousted Daniel Ortega on February 25, 1990. The true believers had championed tyrants who would sacrifice human blood on the altar of utopian ideals. Glazov, “United in Hate,” p. 96.
Lucky for the Nicarauga folks that the US had a President Reagan, huh?
