“The only problem with your dream of a prosperous Nicaragua is that guys like me will never let it happen.” — Tony Hayden Copy Share Image
Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have… — Diana Lopez Copy Share Image
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is.… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing.… — Eden Sher Copy Share Image
“I needed out. The Jeep wasn’t fast enough. I shut it down, grabbed the keys and started running like a bear was… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“I recognized Meg’s swirly handwriting and crooked my index finger into the side of the envelope to rip it open. There was… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I believe that absolute objectivity does not exist. American journalists, although they try to be objective, always lean one way or another.… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
“He was taking a leap here, negotiating with a crackhead, under the table, in a dark cantina. The courage etched on his… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“My dad used to say, ‘This is what your right arm’s for, son,’” John said. “This is the time and these are… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Quit worrying so much about the boards and nails of your life. Focus on the stuff that lasts.” He glanced through the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc., but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
