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ricktee
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Presidency of Ronald Reagan -

7 years ago

January 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan's foreign policy stance was resolutely anti-communist. He controversially granted aid to paramilitary forces seeking to overthrow leftist governments, particularly in war-torn Central America, thus he supported Samosa. Carter may have initiated the situation but Reagan was not without his share of supporting dictators. The effort to support the contras was one component of the Reagan Doctrine, which called for providing military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments; in this situation Reagan was anti-Ortega. The case for support of the contras continued to be made in Washington, D.C., by both the Reagan administration and The Heritage Foundation, which argued that support for the contras would counter Soviet influence in Nicaragua
On 1 May 1985 President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States", and declared a "national emergency" and a trade embargo against Nicaragua to "deal with that threat".It "is now a given; it is true", the Washington Post declared in 1986, "the Sandinistas are communists of the Cuban or Soviet school"; that "The Reagan administration is right to take Nicaragua as a serious menace—to civil peace and democracy in Nicaragua and to the stability and security of the region"; that we must "fit Nicaragua back into a Central American mode" and "turn Nicaragua back toward democracy," and with the "Latin American democracies" "demand reasonable conduct by regional standard." Comunist supported Ortega did bring Democracy to Niaragua, albeit not U.S. style, people have more freedom now then they did under Samosa. Carter may have initiated the U.S. rebellion against the "people" of Niaragua but Reagan also denied help to the "citzens" by supporting ditatorship!
It was alarming that in just a few months after the Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua received international acclaim for its rapid progress in the fields of literacy and health. It was alarming that a socialist-mixed-economy state could do in a few short months what the Somoza dynasty, a U.S. client state, could not do in 45 years! It was truly alarming that the Sandinistas were intent on providing the very services that establish a government's political and moral legitimacy.
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