Ortega Concedes Defeat in Nicaragua

AP | 11/06/01 | ELOY O. AGUILAR

[aculeus]

Yes!!!!!!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

YES!!! Thanks John, hehehe - this is bad for the Liberals. :-)

[beavus]

Say, wasn't Carville running his campaign?

[backhoe]

I am *so* relieved to hear this!

[golas]

Yahoo!!!!!

[The_Reader_David]

Let all the leftist critics of President Reagan sit up and take note: his policies have lead to a real democracy in Nicaragua in which even the Marxists accept real popular sovereignty.

Rub their faces in this one next time anyone tries to vilify Reagans' foreign policy because in some cases there has been blowback. Communism is now a form of oriental despotism which is rapidly trying to fix itself by adopting the free market (in China, the only place of any consequence run by a CP). Our great adversaries now can't even make their own missiles, they have to steal airliners. Nor are they serious people like the old communist (evil like the old communists, but serious? Would serious people issue a challenge to single combat between W and Mullah Omar?)

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Communist ORTEGA Loses =

...FIDEL CASTRO -&- JESSE JACKSON Cry Tears...

[wny]

Calling David Boise.

[Mr. Morals]

Mr. Ortega --

THREE STRIKES!!! YOU'RE OUT!

[Pining_4_TX]

The running news messages on CNN this morning mentioned heavy voting in Nicaragua and that D. Ortega was trying to regain power, but not a peep about the fact that he was losing. And this was long after I had read it on a Free Republic thread. I guess they just couldn't believe it, and we know they don't feel an obligation to report things they don't like.

[JohnHuang2]

Re: #47 - EXCELLENT!

[JohnHuang2]

I guess they just couldn't believe it, and we know they don't feel an obligation to report things they don't like.

And that's why FOXNEWS is kicking CNN's posterior in the ratings.

[JohnHuang2]

Horrific news for libs = GREAT NEWS ;^)

[Keith]

...more like the Ross Perot of Central America...

[Mr. Morals]

Yes, calvin sun, they are of the same party. AAMOF, ALL Nicaguan presidents since Ortega left have been from the same party. In fact, former president Violeta Chamorro defeated the new president elect in the party's primary in 1990. She served from 1991 until 1996. In 1996, current president Arnoldo Aleman was elected over Daniel Ortega in his first comeback attempt. Bolanos was his running mate. Last year, Bolanos resigned as VeeP to run for president.

Chamorro is alive. She declined to run again or the presidency again this year. She served as part of the revolutionary junta (which Ortega led until he took absolute control in 1985) until she became disillusioned with Ortega's brutal and distopic regime.

The party, in English, is called the Constitutional Liberal Party. It is really socially Conservative. In Latin America, "liberal" is often put in the titles of right-of-center to full right-wing parties.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Hallelujah!

[piasa]

BS...under Somoza there was no exodus of refugees. Under the Sandinistas there was. People fled in droves. (Typical of communist-backed dictators, by the way) The Sandinistas wasted no time in taking land from the people, even from the peasants for whom the Sandinistas were supposed to play 'savior.' Theirs was a violence on a scale Samoza had never matched. The Sandinistas were indescriminant in their targets, hitting civilian areas with their military strikes, bombing villages, schools and homes with their Soviet Hind helicopters.

Somoza was a dictator, but compared to the Sandinistas he was a piker. The Sandinistas were death squads in and of themselves, pillagers of the countryside, respecting no property rights and basically uniformed, government-sanctioned thieves, depriving people of their livlihods and sending peasants fleeing into neighboring nations to live in squalid camps. The Sandinistas practiced torture against those who dared to show dissent with gusto, recieving a pass for their behavior by American liberals because they couldn't face the grim reality that 'their boys' were every bit as guilty- and then some- as Somoza. While the Sandinistas killed, the American liberals dutifully Sandinista parties and doted over thugs and scoundrels.

The contras won the people over by cleaning up their own ranks of riff-raff while the Sandinistas descended to ever deeper levels of corruption and repression of the people, becoming so bad even some Sandinistas could not stomach them. The first to go were those of more patriotic bent who realized that the Sandinistas did not reprisent Nicaraguan sovereignity and nationalism as they claimed, but were inviting the USSR in to deal. So much for independence.

[KC_Conspirator]

I know who Lavreti Beria is, but who is Tomas Borge?

[KC_Conspirator]

Actually, Somoza did not crush the countries' economy, but the Sandinistas did. Lots of leftist academics visited there only to return with lies. The Sandinistas ruined the economy, like every other brutal communist regime. There were not lines to buy goods because the stores were bare and had nothing to sell. Hell, you could not buy anything down there of value unless it was on the black market.