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Tomas Borge Martinez, last living founder of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista movement, dies
Associated Press ^ | May 1, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT, | Associated Press

Posted on 04/30/2012 9:20:13 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

The last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua's U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979 has died. Tomas Borge Martinez was 81.

First Lady Rosario Murillo said in a simultaneous broadcast on Radio Ya and other stations that Borge Martinez died late Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: borge; borgemartinez; centralamerica; communist; communists; goodriddance; johnkerry; martinez; nicaragua; sandinista; sandinistas; tomasborgemartinez; tomasmartinez; tomharkin
I'm sure Tom Harkin and John Kerry are deeply saddened.
1 posted on 04/30/2012 9:20:20 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

He now gets to validate Marxist theology. Is there a God or not?


2 posted on 04/30/2012 9:29:39 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Hunton Peck
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"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

3 posted on 04/30/2012 9:29:42 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Hunton Peck

“Jailed twice by the Somoza’s brutal dynastic dictatorship.”

Leave it to the AP to refer to a strong ally of the US and defender of liberty, Anastasio Somoza as a “dictator.”


4 posted on 04/30/2012 9:32:46 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Hunton Peck

“Jailed twice by the Somoza’s brutal dynastic dictatorship.”

Leave it to the AP to refer to a strong ally of the US and defender of liberty, Anastasio Somoza as a “dictator.”


5 posted on 04/30/2012 9:33:16 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Hunton Peck

He’s soon to have company when Hugo Chavez joins him.


6 posted on 04/30/2012 9:36:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Hunton Peck
Borge once wrote that "the return of the right is inconceivable" and pledged before the 2011 presidential election that the Sandinistas would stay in power "forever."

Gosh. By what democratic means are they going to achieve that?

7 posted on 04/30/2012 9:37:32 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Burn in hell you son of a bitch.


8 posted on 04/30/2012 9:38:10 PM PDT by ciaocotc
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To: Hunton Peck

Another Marxist dirtbag assumes room temperature. Hopefully Fidel, Raul and Hugo join him soon.


9 posted on 04/30/2012 9:59:00 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Uncle Slayton
Leave it to the AP to refer to a strong ally of the US and defender of liberty, Anastasio Somoza as a “dictator.”

They call Hugo Chavez a populist.

10 posted on 04/30/2012 10:01:52 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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11 posted on 04/30/2012 10:22:58 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: Hunton Peck

Since Borge was an avowed communist, will the 0bama regime send a high-level delegation to weep at his funeral?


12 posted on 05/01/2012 1:42:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: Hunton Peck

Since Borge was an avowed communist, will the 0bama regime send a high-level delegation to weep at his funeral?


13 posted on 05/01/2012 1:42:42 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... so should voting!)
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To: theBuckwheat

No he get to valdate if there a hell or not


14 posted on 05/01/2012 6:09:17 AM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: Uncle Slayton

Leave it to the AP to leave out that the leader of the Contras adolfo Calero was also jailed twice by Somoza, and later by the Marxist Sandinistas.


15 posted on 01/15/2013 10:56:38 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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