2016 Postmortem

flamingdem

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10. The Sandinistas were NOT Marxist Leninists

Reply to Florencenj2point0 (Original post)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 01:22 PM

Jun 2016

The leadership was a coalition of leaders and included businessmen and the clergy.

The USA was fully responsible for supporting Somoza who was killing and bombing his own citizens. Bernie was 100% right that they deserved support.

In general US Presidents don't give a damn about Latin America. Bernie knows what is going on there and won't deny history. Obama took some steps in this direction, finally, towards the end of his second term. It's all about domination of weaker countries for US interests. See Honduras and Hillary's involvement and the US base there for an example.

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