Wow. What a suprise.
Posted on 08/02/2004 12:25:42 PM PDT by MikalM
There were still red-and-black revolutionary banners waving over Managua, though the largest, on the sweltering afternoon of July 19, was marked with the Coca-Cola logo. Twenty-five years after the idealistic young guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) came down from the mountains to overthrow Nicaragua's brutal Anastasio Somoza dictatorship and seize the world's imagination, little remains of the romantic fervor that marked their unlikely triumph -- or the meager gains of their 10-year revolutionary experiment.
On the anniversary, the plaza where 1979's rifle-waving companeros entered in triumph was thronged not with impassioned, singing crowds like the ones that hailed them as liberators so long ago but with Nicaragua's exhausted masses of jodidos -- slang for the "screwed-over ones."
Sweating in the fierce sun, vendors hawked beer, pink motorized bunnies, fried yucca, beer, Chiclets, hats, water, beer, sunglasses, Che T-shirts, cigarettes, beer and red-and-black armbands imprinted with the Nike swoosh. Drunken teenagers tried to form human pyramids, then collapsed. At the edges of the plaza, homeless families huddled in makeshift shelters fashioned from trash bags and sticks, oblivious to the celebration; across town, glue-sniffing teenage prostitutes worked the gleaming new casinos. Far above the frenzy, from a remote platform, the middle-aged survivors of the FSLN shouted slogans at the crowd. "The people united will never be defeated!" boomed a portly man with a bodyguard. And the people, defeated, chanted half-heartedly along.
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Viva La Revolucion'! (Snicker, snicker!)
the really hilarious thing is the pinko who wrote this REALLY BELIEVES THIS! ROTFLMAO.
Wow. What a suprise.
The only cure known would be a few years in gulag. Nothing else is going to work on lefties.
Another failed People's Republic. All words and no real change. I wonder if our efforts in Iraq will meet the same fate. In ten years there may well be a new tyrant in the palace in Baghdad? Maybe people get the government they deserve? What did we do to deserve Clinton?
The Sandinista's were such a peace loving people.
They butchered the family of a good friend of mine who was from Nicaragua. He was with the group that found the remains of his aunt, uncle and cousins. They had been raped, eviscirated, and tied to trees with their intestines. From what he told me it looked as if the children had been killed while the parents were made to watch.
Yep, those Sandinista's were real peaceful people......
Semper Fi
If only Kennedy would not have lost his 'cojones' and provided air cover support in April of '61 to the 1500 brave anti-Castro cuban invaders, we would not have had to endure the 1962 missle crisis, cuban refugee crisis, and the other hemispheric chaos as a result of his 'shaky' Democrat administration.
I have a friend who in living in Managua and continually tells me how dangerous it is. He went to the Police station and bought a full-auto AK-47 for home protection. Can you say corruption? He was also telling me about all the drug smugglers there and how they would kill you at the drop of a hat.
Looks like young Sara drank the Kool-Aid while she was down there in the '80's.
The moral blindness of these people constantly amazes me.
John Kerry meeting with Sandinista Daniel Ortega, 1985
One of his "foreign leaders" no doubt...
I wish Nixon had won in 1960, and alot of lives would have been saved from these bloodsuckers.
Awesome Kerry-Commie photo! Gotta spread that one around. These traitors!
Just imagine if Reagan would have won the nomination in 1976. Communism everywhere would have been dead. At the very least the Islamic terrorism we're experiencing now would not exist.
Uh, wouldn't that make them jodildos?
That's probably what this guy was saying to Ortega while being introduced by Tom Harkin:
Also - check out the lovey dovey eyes from the chick in the background. Anybody have any idea who she is?
You beat me to it!!!
Sweating in the fierce sun, vendors hawked beer, pink motorized bunnies, fried yucca, beer, Chiclets, hats, water, beer, sunglasses, Che T-shirts, cigarettes, beer and red-and-black armbands imprinted with the Nike swoosh. Drunken teenagers tried to form human pyramids, then collapsed. At the edges of the plaza, homeless families huddled in makeshift shelters fashioned from trash bags and sticks, oblivious to the celebration; across town, glue-sniffing teenage prostitutes worked the gleaming new casinos.
Sometimes, you just get the impression that certain people are beyond hope.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
>>>"John Kerry meeting with Sandinista Daniel Ortega, 1985"
Great picture, thank you Boston Globe.
Hoppy
Lets not leave out his commie buddie Sinator Harkin of Iowa. Another dimocrat "leader".
And the tens of millions of Central Americans flooding into the U.S., will they change their ways or will they change us.
A coolaid drinker on Harkins' staff, probably.
Probably. It would be interesting to find out though.....
Nicaragua - fashionably revolting for 25 years.
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