November 3, 2024 www.amazon.com Watch the full film: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com During the 1980s the Reagan administration sponsored an anti-Sandinista guerrilla movement known as the Contras (a proxy paramilitary based in Honduras and Costa Rica, largely consisting of northern highlanders known as the Milpas and led by former Somoza regime soldiers) against the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The resulting war killed over 50000 people, mostly civilians. Under the Carter Administration, the Sandinistas had received tacit US support in their coup against the previously US-backed right-wing military dictatorship of the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled the country for several decades. An interim coalition, Junta, took power in 1979 and in 1984 leader of the FSLN party, Daniel Ortega became Nicaragua’s first elected President who ruled under the name of the Sandinista revolution. As the years progressed, the Ortega government was accused of becoming more authoritarian, with the more moderate factions of the coalition being expelled from government. Allegations of suppression of political dissent increased, as did accusations of state-sponsored human rights abuses. However, these accusations of human rights abuses were not accurate, according to Human Rights Watch: “Almost invariably, US pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the US-supported insurgents, known as …
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