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!!!!
Actually, he was a very active player in the overthrow of Somoza and the installment of the Sandinistas, along with castro, lopez portillo (mejico), carazo odio(costa rica), omar torrijos(panama), Herrera (Venezuela). The sandinistas where about to start being wiped out by the Nicaraguan army, when carter stepped in and told Somoza that if he did not leave power he would invade Nicaragua; this is never mentioned anywhere. Carter cut off arms and ammo to Somoza, forced him to leave (using ambassador Pezzullo), and then turned his face with indifference while 5 thousand Nicaraguan soldiers were murdered. After most of them had turned themselves in to the Red Cross, the Red Cross turned them over to the Sandinistas