Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brezhnev Doctrine failed. The Brezhnev Doctrine failed because it met armed resistance. And that resistance drew strength and sustenance from the U.S., more precisely from the Reagan Doctrine, the American policy of supporting anti-Communist guerrillas in the newest outposts of the Soviet empire: Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua...
...guerrillas has been less intense but still generally bipartisan. Moreover, China and South Africa have provided steady support to the anti-Soviet forces. The Soviets are now exerting pressure on their clients to compromise. The one place where American support for the resistance vacillated and finally collapsed was Nicaragua. Not surprisingly, Nicaragua is also the one place where the Soviet client remains firmly entrenched and where Gorbachev shows no sign of bending...
...think that if he decided that Dukakis means what he's said -- that he really believes in a nuclear freeze, or that we have no business supporting those fighting for freedom in Nicaragua, or that U.S. policy in Angola is all wrong -- then our progress we've made with the Soviets would be in jeopardy. There would be no need for the Soviets to continue what they're doing: getting out of Afghanistan, for example, or allowing more Jews to exit the Soviet Union...
...Reagan in the 1980 primaries. Thus when Bush spoke to the contra contributors cultivated by Carl ("Spitz") Channell, Channell planned to tap the same people for donations to Bush's future campaign needs. This was just one of many ties Bush's office had with right-wingers concerned about Nicaragua's "freedom fighters...
...United States had a choice to replace Ortega with either a right-wing dictator who would restore "order" back to Nicaragua or a newly-developed democratic system, it would likely choose the dictator. It did so in El Salvador...