“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 wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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?