America Quote by 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

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 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 U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

— Bianca Jagger

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international…

— Bianca Jagger

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

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

— Geoffrey Hinton

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

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

No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our…

— Noam Chomsky

In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many…

— Stephen Kinzer