Embargo Quote by Bianca Jagger

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

— Bianca Jagger

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

— Bianca Jagger

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista…

— Bianca Jagger

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

— Noam Chomsky

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

— Bianca Jagger

The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in…

— Noam Chomsky

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against…

— Daniel Ortega

They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the…

— Allen Ginsberg

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not…

— Stephen Kinzer

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had…

— Bianca Jagger

The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980.…

— Stephen Kinzer