1990
Elections in Nicaragua
Nicaragua has elections. The popular Sandinista government had been blockaded and destabilised
by the USA from neighbouring Honduras. The USA tells the people of the country that if the party it backed (the
National Opposition Union) won the elections, the war would stop and aid would be forthcoming. Using the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the USA spends $ 9,000,000 on the
opposition election campaign.
In the USA, Time Magazine writes that the methods used to destabilise Nicaragua were to
"wreck the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the exhausted natives overthrow the unwanted
government themselves," with a cost to the USA that was "minimal".
Nicaragua returns to a "free market" economy. Ten years after having the best social services in Central
America, it becomes one of the poorest nations with malnutrition and illiteracy widespread.
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