My pleasure. Your son in law will come around eventually, glad he's seen through John Kerry. I got thinking the other day about how the "Iran-Contra" hearings helped tip Congress into Republican hands.
Nicaragua was to be abandoned to the wolves, according to the so-called Democrats in Congress who liked to think they controlled US foreign policy. From Jackson Browne to Johnny Carson, the entertainment industry empty cans criticized US opposition to the Sandinistas.
Eventually (after Frontline on PBS documented the Sandinista genocide campaign in the interior among other things, and after the Sandinistas realized they couldn't win) there were internationally observed elections in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas lost, and retired to their fortified estates (formerly of the Somozas). The rest of Central America's guerrilas were gradually starved out of existence or beaten to death, but slowly emerged from that state here and there (Chiapas, Columbia) during the Clinton years.
I was just thinking about the Sandinistas yesterday, but couldn't recall any facts. We don't hear too much about Nicaragua, or any of the other countries in Central and South America these days. Of course excluding flood and earthquake disaster reports. I vaguely remember the Iran-Contra hearings. It wasn't good.