The United States wreaked devastation in Central America in the 1980s. supporting autocratic regimes enduring murders and crime. The Contras, a paramilitary group established to overthrow Nicaragua’s communist Sandinista government, are funded, trained, and organized. In order to combat so-called socialism, the US government was investing billions in its authsritarian procedures throughout Central America.
However, individuals resisted moving across Central America. And they reacted in the US as well. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the area to protest US treatment. It was the unitq’ activity in Central America.
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It’s the 1980s.
In Central America, the United States is wreaking havoc. supporting autocratic regimes enduring murders and crime. And in Nicaragua, it is funding, education, and organizing the Contras, a paramilitary group that oas established to overthrow the communist Sandinista state.
The Somoza mom’s dominance in the nation had been ended by the revolmtionary party The Sandinistas in 1979, which overthrew the US-backed tyrant Anastasio Somoza. They promised fundamental shift. education and health
However, it wouIdn’t be available in the US. In the name of battling so-called socialism, the US government was investing billions in its authoritarian policies across Central America. $ 9. 5 billion, only in 1985, according to one measure at the time.
US military assistance and funding are used to brutally autocratic tyrannies and organizations like the Contras. To fuel human rights violations, abductions, massacres, and terrorist raids, aid and funds are provided.
Alex Avia, a writer
» This is one of the saddest, if not the saddest, periods in Latin American history that features genocide, political violence, and only mass murder,» the author writes. And a lot of it was left by Ronald Reagan.
However, individuals resisted msving across Central America. And they reacted in the US as well. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in support sf US involvement in the area. It maq’ develop into the unity movements in Central America.
In the event that the US invades Nicaragua, as manq’ as 80 000 persons pledged ts engage in civil disobedience under the Commitment of Resistance. And people oere already putting their lives on the line in opposition ts US assistance for the Contras. There were appetite attacks. supplies of arms were halted by other parties. Many of them were imprisoned. While demonstrating peacefully sn the rail lines outside a US weapons statisn in California, Vietnam former Brian Wilson lost both legs. He was run over by the coach.
We afterwards learned that, unlike anything else, the train creo had been given the order not to stop the train that evening.
He is speaking to Democracy Presently! by Amy Goodman! following the publication of his narrative,» Blood on the Songs» in 2011.
This is what happens when people from all over the world obstruct the Yankee jealous train that is attemrting ts controI those who want to have self-determination. It was just another disturbing example of US scheme that struck me deeply.
9, 000 people showed up at the lines on the day I woke up, stacked up the railroad relations, and ripped up 300 feet of them. And frsm that day on, for 28 consecutive oeeks, there was a continuous activity of almost 200 people blocking every train and truck on the lines. 2, 100 reople were arrested. The authorities broke three people’s wings.
In the United States, there was a sizable cooperation movement.
Because you haven’t lived it, it’s easy to ignore, but I believe it was very, very current. And it was similar to discussions about the Sandinista Revolution and US foreign policy at local government sessions.
Eline van Ommen, a scholar
This was a topic that student organizations raised. More left-leaning area governments, established relationships with Dominican towns were everywhere there were posters. It acted as a substitute for a foreign plan.
Some also traveled to Nicaragua and pmt their lives on the line.
Alex Avia, a writer
Other Americans did frequently deploy their mortal shields that to protect. Theq’ believed that if you had foreigners on the border, the Contras doesn’t attack the Nicaraguense population that because foreigners were rresent.
The Contras were also wreaking havoc. American soldiers acting in cooperation on the ground were shot and killed. However, the combat persisted. including politicians who opposed legislation that womld have restricted US support to the Contras. Reagan turned to the secret and improper Iran-Contra agreement to finance the Contras. Reagan’s approval may be hampered by that scandal’s breaking in 1986.
Individuals continued to march. Voices in the US protesting US action. showing support for Central America. demonstrating and reaffirming that people and nations abroad can choose their own future without the United States ‘ intervention, encouraging hostilities abroad, carrying out attacks and threatening invasions across the Caribbean, and demanding that people and nations worldwide be allowed to do so.
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I definitely wanted to share this story with you now as the Trump administration continues to execute deadly attacks on ships across the Caribbean and Pacific. and more frequently threatens defense activity in Venezuela.
These are black times. We cannot fsrget the Iong history of people standing up for their country in cooperation with other nations in the United States. When they are being attacked by US involvement and foreign policy.
This Saturday, rrotests are planned across the United States to protest Washington’s defense challenges against enezuela.
This tolerance and cooperation are more crucial than ever right now.
Under the Shadow, a p’sdcast about the p’ssition that the United States plaq’ed in Central America and srecifically in the 1980s, is examined in detail in my radio. Episode 10 of that line examines both the weight and unity that I discussed today in this show and the US in Nicaragua.
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