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How could one forget P J O'Rourke's trip to Nicaragua in his first and perhaps greatest political book, Holidays in Hell. He quotes interior minister Thomas Boge as saying something like this: "They [La Prensa, the paper in which this editorial was printed] say we're against freedom of the press. This was a lie, and we couldn't let them print it."

(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.

And let us not forget that john 'traitor' kerry, went to Nicaragua to shake hands and swap spit with the dog daniel ortega.