Posted on 06/08/2004 12:42:12 PM PDT by gedeon3
The reactions caused in Nicaragua by the death of the ex- President of the United States, Ronald W. Reagan, demonstrate in an unequivocal way, that the wounds of the pro-communist revolution and the civil war of the Eighties, are still open and still bleed.
In fact, as we have said in previous occasions, in spite of the well-meaning thing that is the expression of forgetting the past and to look only ahead, it is only a rhetorical phrase. The truth is that as long as the personal protagonists, active and passive, oppressors and victims, of those ill-fated events who were glorious and horrendous, according to the side in which every one was placed or fought, it is impossible to erase them of the individual and collective memory of the Nicaraguans. The crimes that were committed in both sides can have prescribed legally because the memory of the facts does not end with death, because they are enrolled in history, forever.
Now, seeing the death of ex- president Reagan, one has to remember that if had not been for his vision and by its energetic international policy of containment of Communism, in Nicaragua there would be at this point a communist State, the Nicaraguans would not have individual liberties, in the country would not be democracy and the great majority of the population would be put under the espionage of the CDS (block committees), the repression of the Mint (interior ministry) and the DGSE(similar to kgb), and the rigid rationing of basic products, while the communist nomenclature would have everything, like in Cuba.
Inclusively, the PRESS (name of the newspaper) would no longer exits, or in the best of case, it would be communist unionist or government spokesman, of the Sandinista Party or the Popular Sandinista Army (EPS).
Certainly, the strategy of Reagan prevented that Communism, mortal and sworn enemy of freedom, democracy and human rights would settle in Nicaragua and be expanded to other countries. He was convinced that Communism was nonviable as an economic and social system and that would not last forever, contrary to what leaders of the USSR and communists all over the world believed and wanted. But he (Reagan) was a great strategist, who also knew that no despotic regime falls by itself, however rotten it may be. It is necessary to help it fall.
For that reason, to cause the USSR to fall on its own weight, Reagan challenged it to a super expensive armament race - the "War of the Galaxies" (star wars) - that the Soviets could not resist and chose to want to reform Communism by means of the doctrine of Gorbachov: Perestroika (reconstruction) and Glasnost (transparency) Something impossible to obtain, because Communism is nonviable, and therefore, impossible to reform.
And just as ex- president Reagan did not think that it was necessary to defeat the Soviet Union militarily, he did not think that it was necessary to overthrow the pro-communist Sandinista regime by means of war(invasion). So Reagan never planned to invade Sandinista Nicaragua, he did not even think that the contras (freedom fighters) had to prevail militarily. The war of Nicaragua was handled like a "conflict of low or average intensity", because the intention was to force the Sandinistas to celebrate free elections, competitive and internationally supervised.
After Mijaíl Gorbachov rose to power in the broken Soviet Union, in 1985, Reagan decided with him that the conflict of Nicaragua had to be solved in a pacific and political way. And the 7 of August of 1987, the presidents of Central America approved the Agreements of Esquipulas II, in which Daniel Ortega committed himself to gamble the power with the opposition, something that the FSLN(Sandinistas) always had rejected since the democratic revolution prevailed and it turned aside towards totalitarianism.
That one would be the sentence of death of the Sandinista regime that in spite of the pressures and repressions against the democratic opposition, was defeated by most of the Nicaraguans in the elections that took place the 25 of February of 1990.
And thus it was that, from the 25 of April of that same year, it began in Nicaragua the transition to freedom and democracy , thanks to the struggle fight of all the democratic Nicaraguans, and to the decisive aid of the ex- President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of my lifetime, the 20th century, and one of the greatest ever in our nation.
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This is the part liberals detest.
The question is why?
The parallels with Iraq and today's debate is breathtaking. The only sane conclusion is Liberals hate there brethren dictators being taken down.
This is great. Thanks.
ANSWER: The old USSR clutched it's chest one day and fell over. Michael Moore will too.
Thanks very much for the post and translation. This too is an area of the world Reagan greatly affected through his brilliantly insightful policies and where he'll likely never get an iota of credit for from his Democratic detractors. Viva la Reagan Revolution. Power to the people! (heeeeheeehee)
(I know I got that slightly wrong but it was in the same spirit as that).
Ronald Reagan, and a whole bunch of people the left loathes with a passion, brought that down. All it took is a few million bucks in aid and complete and absolute moral clarity -- a virtue that's amazingly absent from most politicians.
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And let us not forget that john 'traitor' kerry, went to Nicaragua to shake hands and swap spit with the dog daniel ortega.
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Agreed.
Send a copy to Kerry and ask for his comment.
WOW!!! Even if I did not read it thoroughly (right now I’m at work), I think your translation is great… and this comes from a professional translator!!! Thanks for allowing our fellow Freepers who do not read Spanish get a glimpse of what Reagan meant to anticommunism in Latin America.
Many people do not realize or have never heard what it was like in Central America prior to Reagan. I do. I lived there, and I can still see in mi mind many Nicaraguans interviewed by the Guatemalan TV as they were fleeing Nicaragua. It was painfully reminiscent of what Cubans who leave the Island go through: insults, physical aggression, theft of their personal belongings and humiliation. This was thanks to the Marxist-Leninist-socialist-communist Sandinista government (which, may I remind all, came about with Carter´s “blessings” or, at least thanks to his indifference).
Thanks again!!!!
Thank you!
If you had a chance to visit my son's website, you probably saw where this article would come in handy.
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NEVER FORGET
"ALOHA RONNIE' Guyer attended the Jesuit's Loyola University of Los Angeles during the early 1960's ...and went on to fight invading Communists at the 1st Major Battles of the Vietnam War in the Mid-1960's.
TONY COELHO attended Jesuit Loyola University of Los Angeles during the early 1960's ...and went on to personally engineer the U.S. Congress' Cut-off of funding for the Anti-Communists fighting CASTRO-Backed Communists in Central America in the early 1980's.
I wonder who got it right..?
NEVER FORGET
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NEVER FORGET
While President, CLINTON went down to Central America to apologize for America's fighting on the wrong side there against CASTRO-Backed Communists during the early 1980's.
While Ex-President, CLINTON publically stated that there might not even be an America around in 300 years.
The Enemy is Within...
and always has been.
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And for this the democrats tried to run him out of office.
Using proceeds from arms, sold in an effort to influence the release of hostages in the middle east, to fund anti communist rebels is an example of creativity, efficiency and resourcefulness rare in foreign policy today.
I wish the contra aspect of Iran Contra HAD been Reagan's idea. MacFarland, Pointdexter and North deserve medals.
Bahfangoo to that late yapping beagle Lawrence Welsh & his democrat handlers.
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