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''I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy'': Bernie Sanders on the 1980s
By Sydney Ember
May 18, 2019
Excerpt:
In an article on Friday, The New York Times detailed Mr. Sanders’s foreign policy views during his mayoralty, including on the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and on the Soviet Union, and how his activities at the time brought into relief the fervently anti-imperialist worldview that would continue to guide him.
Mr. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, initially declined an interview request for the article. ➡️But after it was published, he requested a phone interview.
The following is an edited and condensed version of the conversation.
Mr. Sanders Let me just say this: I plead guilty to, throughout my adult life, doing everything that I can to prevent war and destruction.
As a young person, long before I ever held any position, I was active in opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a mayor, I did my best to stop American foreign policy, which for years was overthrowing governments in Latin America and installing puppet regimes.
I did everything that I could as a mayor of a small city to stop the United States from getting involved in another war in Central America trying to overthrow a government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/bernie-sanders.html
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