Volume 32, Number 19 · December 5, 1985
The Nicaraguan Tangle
By Robert S. Leiken
Nicaragua's 1979 insurrection was called the 'beautiful revolution.' It united the people against the corrupt Somoza dictatorship and promised a 'third way' between neocolonial capitalist exploitation and the Cuban model of socialism. Today, the 'new Nicaragua' is sunk in a fratricidal war equipped and financed by the super-powers, while its national aspirations smother. The movement of the Sandinistas toward closer relations with the Soviet Union has left many of their international supporters either publicly critical or else privately embarrassed; some now concentrate on the aggressive policies of the Reagan administration and the 'contra' forces it is backing rather than directly defend the revolutionary government.
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