Re: American Attitudes L3

[Dan Minette]

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From: J. van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: American Attitudes L3

> Nicaragua wasn't "taken over" by the Soviet Union, btw. It had an
*elected*
> Marxist government.

Can you cite a source on that.  I didn't remember that, so I looked at

http://www.wtgonline.com/data/nic/nic580.asp

and found

"....by General Anastasio Somoza Garcia, who seized power in 1935 and whose
family ruled Nicaragua in an increasingly brutal, despotic and corrupt
manner until 1979. In that year, after a 17-year guerrilla war, the last
Somoza was overthrown by the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional
(FSLN). "


This does not sound like an election to me.  If this source is inaccurate,
I'd apprecate other sources that gave the date of the elections and such.

Dan M.