[lbo-talk] We shipped weapons, Sandinistas say

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 22 10:05:58 PST 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote:


>http://www.fiu.edu/~yaf/reagannica.html
>We shipped weapons, Sandinistas say
>By GLENN GARVIN
>Herald Staff Writer
>
>MANAGUA -- When Ronald Reagan and Sandinista leaders slugged it out during
>the 1980s over events in Nicaragua, Reagan was right more often than they
>liked to admit, the Sandinistas now say.
>
>In a series of interviews with The Herald, several past and present
>Sandinista officials confirmed that they shipped weapons to Marxist
>guerrillas in neighboring El Salvador, a statement they once hotly denied.

So? Is it a bad thing they did? Does this justify Reagan's wars?

Doug



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