In some ways I kind of appreciate it when the propaganda machine starts to focus on Nicaragua cos I actually researched it in a lot of detail for my undergrad dissertation thingie.
When I see the disconnect between what I know to be true and what papers like this print, it reminds me that whatever they say about any other country is likely to be just as much a barefaced lie and projection.
And especially because there is no way anyone with a semblance of a conscious could think US support for the Contra terrorists was anything other than evil.
Yup. The US, through Contra movements, actively encouraged the kind of evil shit that ISIS got up to against a fledgeling democracy that frankly was far more democratic than the US has ever been.
There really is no moral ambivilence here. The US is evil.
In some ways I kind of appreciate it when the propaganda machine starts to focus on Nicaragua cos I actually researched it in a lot of detail for my undergrad dissertation thingie.
This was about 15 yrs ago now, and when I was studying them I was much more focused on the FSLN and associated movements up to the election in the 90's where they basically lost due to a decade of having an economic war as well as US sponsored terrorism strangling their ability to make good on their planned reforms. I'm afraid I wouldn't consider myself qualified enough to pass any kind of judgement on the modern movement.
In some ways I kind of appreciate it when the propaganda machine starts to focus on Nicaragua cos I actually researched it in a lot of detail for my undergrad dissertation thingie.
When I see the disconnect between what I know to be true and what papers like this print, it reminds me that whatever they say about any other country is likely to be just as much a barefaced lie and projection.
Quite radicalizing, being an expert in something and then having newspapers write about it.
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And especially because there is no way anyone with a semblance of a conscious could think US support for the Contra terrorists was anything other than evil.
Yup. The US, through Contra movements, actively encouraged the kind of evil shit that ISIS got up to against a fledgeling democracy that frankly was far more democratic than the US has ever been.
There really is no moral ambivilence here. The US is evil.
Subjectively, from I know I'd say the evil shit the Contras did was worse than ISIS.
what are the modern sandinistas like?
This was about 15 yrs ago now, and when I was studying them I was much more focused on the FSLN and associated movements up to the election in the 90's where they basically lost due to a decade of having an economic war as well as US sponsored terrorism strangling their ability to make good on their planned reforms. I'm afraid I wouldn't consider myself qualified enough to pass any kind of judgement on the modern movement.