Word: nicaragua
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...Come to Nicaragua. It's a beautiful, hilly nation with which you're bound to fall in love. The country is admittedly a little too hot but the two-day trip down through Mexico is well worth it, because Nicaragua is about to be hit with a gigantic economic shot...
Warfare is about to become a part of the ever expanding service sector of the Pan-American economy. Instead of relying on our own industrial strength, made-in-America troops, President Reagan plans to hire cheaper, foreign models to fight the war he wants fought in Nicaragua. But there's sure to be some job openings for Americans in servicing these troops and perhaps, for the more adventurous, in waging...
...sure-bet economic benefits that Reagan trumpets as the reasons behind his funding a war there. The causus belli is the current government of Nicaragua which Reagan wants to overthrow. Communist revolutionaries, the Nicaraguan leaders have tied themselves closely with the Soviet Union. President Reagan fears that with another Soviet backed country very close to the American border, that other being Cuba, the safety of the United States is compromised...
Reagan knows that sending his own troops to Nicaragua would be politically impossible so instead he buys rebels, mainly people who were deposed by the Sandinista revolution or in disfavor with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Like the condottieri of renaissance Italy, these Contras live very well off of American money. (The House voted to give the contras $30 million in economic aid when these rebels don't even have a bureacracy to distribute it. It's likely that a lot of this money will end up in hands of Miami merchants.) The United States, by hiring these mercenaries, fits very...
...that's the rub. The U.S. has yet to resolve itself into a firm stand against Nicaragua. We certainly don't feel strongly enough to send our own soldiers and most polls show that Americans don't favor funding the Contras. A $100 million out of a trillion dollar budget is a mere trifle for the House to spend in order to relieve some of the pressure about the threat to the south placed on them by Reagan and other conservatives...