On 6/25/21 3:40 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote:
The detention of political opponents in the lead up to November
presidential elections is the latest episode in the FSLN’s
long-troubled relationship to democracy.
https://nacla.org/ortega-elections-sandinistas-fsln
<https://nacla.org/ortega-elections-sandinistas-fsln>
This is a joke.
"When they perceived autocratic practices, they justified them with the
alibi that democracy was a luxury that the constant threat of an
imperial invasion would not allow. There was both truth and falsity in
this excuse: the U.S. government did finance the Contras, but never
planned a direct intervention.After 40 years of dictatorship, democracy
never found fertile ground in which to grow in Nicaragua."
The same applied to Cuba. Their contras were those who landed at the Bay
of Pigs. If Nicaragua had the same kind of muscle behind them the
contras would have been smashed within 6 months. But with Honduras to
the north and Costa Rica to the south and the porous borders they
allowed, it was impossible. Maybe they should have build a moat between
them and the countries working with Reagan.
For that matter, NACLA had plenty of meretricious articles on Cuba over
the years.
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