The Energy of Empire 9. Nicaragua - ‘When history is written, the Contras will be folk heroes’

The United States now moved to block the Nicaraguan government from putting down the rebellion. They employed the same tactic that had been used in Hawaii twenty-seven years earlier, forbidding the Nicaraguan soldiers from firing on the rebels for fear they might hit American civilians. US Warships then deployed Marines to enforce this order.

The quote, ‘When history is written, the contras will be folk heroes’ is from Elliot Abrams, Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State and major architect of the war with Nicaragua.

Sources
Stephen Kinzer’s Overthrow
http://stephenkinzer.com/2013/09/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change-from-hawaii-to-iraq/
And Blood of Brothers
http://stephenkinzer.com/2013/09/blood-of-brothers-life-and-war-in-nicaragua/

John Pilger's documentary: Nicaragua, a Nation's Right to Survive
http://johnpilger.com/videos/nicaragua-a-nations-right-to-survive

Frontline documentary, War on Nicaragua,
https://odysee.com/@TheExpos%C3%A9:6/frontline-war-on-nicaragua-(1987):6

Debate on Political Crisis & Violent Deaths in Nicaragua: Camilo Mejía vs. Julio Martinez Ellsberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdcpqqNdjQ

Music
Nicaragua Nicaraguita, by Carlos Mejía Godoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7-nWslZe0

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