Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Reading Between the Lines

The struggle of the Sandanistas against the US has become a story of left-wing legend. The news that the US was trying to crush a genuinely socialist government attempting to haul the Central American country out of poverty struck a chord around the world as crowds of 'internationalistas' came to join the revolutionary effort.

Far less is known about similar situations in the rest of the region.

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