It's not even relevant what the government is like in Nicaragua now, what's relevant is that the Americans were absolutely on the wrong side of the Contra-Sandinista conflict in the 80s. I wasn't alive during the scandal to say this with complete confidence, but reading about the Iran-Contra affair it seems like the general consensus was that the Reagan administration seriously fucked up and the stuff we've learned about the Contras (and America's direct involvement with their atrocities) have only made the entire thing seem that much worse. There's no real argument about what came before the Sandinstas either because the Somoza regime was pretty transparently brutal and repressive.
It seems to me like everyone is playing revisionist history and pretending that the Contras were the good guys and that America was just "promoting democracy." Idk, maybe I'm wrong and the narrative about Nicaragua and the Contras has always been terrible, but I'm honestly surprised to see how successfully the MSM is able to push these kind of lies when the Iran-Contra affair was such a major event in the 80s.
It's not even relevant what the government is like in Nicaragua now, what's relevant is that the Americans were absolutely on the wrong side of the Contra-Sandinista conflict in the 80s. I wasn't alive during the scandal to say this with complete confidence, but reading about the Iran-Contra affair it seems like the general consensus was that the Reagan administration seriously fucked up and the stuff we've learned about the Contras (and America's direct involvement with their atrocities) have only made the entire thing seem that much worse. There's no real argument about what came before the Sandinstas either because the Somoza regime was pretty transparently brutal and repressive.
It seems to me like everyone is playing revisionist history and pretending that the Contras were the good guys and that America was just "promoting democracy." Idk, maybe I'm wrong and the narrative about Nicaragua and the Contras has always been terrible, but I'm honestly surprised to see how successfully the MSM is able to push these kind of lies when the Iran-Contra affair was such a major event in the 80s.