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Originally posted by Mulholland
Of course, JFKerry was wrong in supporting the Sandinistas, Reagan was right. The brutal Ortega dictatorship was forced out of power and democracy has flourished; no thanks to JFKerry.
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That's a fairly rosy tinted view. Both the Senate and the World Court (not that you guys care about the latter
) agreed with Kerry that it was a bad idea. The Contras apparently didn't really force the Sandinistas out either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
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Mediation by other Central American governments under Costa Rican leadership led finally to the Sapoa ceasefire agreement of March 23, 1988, which with additional agreements (February, August 1989) provided for the Contras' disarmament and re-integration into Nicaraguan society and politics, and internationally-monitored elections which were subsequently won (February 25, 1990) by an anti-Sandinista centre-right coalition.
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