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Marxist 'Science' and Revolutionary 'Faith' in Nicaragua
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BOOK WORLD
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1 / 1986 |
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Marlo Lewis Jr.
Marlo Lewis Jr. is a Hoover Institution Public Affairs Fellow
currently doing research at the Heritage Foundation. |
NICARAGUA: REVOLUTION IN THE FAMILY
Shirley Christian
Random House 1985
337 pp., Cloth
FSLN: THE IDEOLOGY OF THE SANDINISTAS AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION
David Nolan
The Institute of Inter-American Studies, University of Miami, 1984
203 pp., Paper
Nicaragua is one of seven countries in the world today where an anti-Communist resistance movement is waging guerrilla warfare against an avowedly Marxist government. In none of these countries are the insurgents on the verge of winning, but in nearly all of them the guerrilla forces are growing in size. The governments of Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Cambodia would quickly go down to defeat were they not propped up by thousands of foreign troops from Cuba, the Soviet Union, or Vietnam. Similarly, Nicaragua's Sandinista government could not long remain in power without the $150 to $250 million worth of military assistance it receives each year from the Soviet bloc.
The geopolitical stakes in the conflict between Nicaragua's Marxist government and the so-called "contra" guerrillas are high--higher than most Americans realize. The Caribbean Basin, of which Nicaragua is a part, is a major supply artery of the U.S. economy. Over 40 percent of all foreign imports entering the U.S. pass through Caribbean waters, as does 50 percent of our imported oil. The Caribbean also forms the eastern approach to the
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