In his column of May 20, Clarence Page creates the impression that U.S. sanctions caused Nicaragua to move . . . ”closer to Cuba and the Soviet Union.” To the contrary, the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas had already established ties with Cuba and the Soviets when the U.S. imposed sanctions.
He then asks the preposterous question: ”If the Sandinistas were relieved of the burden of the contra war, would they consolidate their revolution into a Marxist state like Cuba or diversify . . . into a . . . democracy like Mexico?”
Perhaps he can name a Marxist-Leninist government that voluntarily diversified into a democracy.
I don`t know what Page is qualified to write about, but his ignorance of Nicaraguan history and Marxist-Leninist organizational theory is profound. Lenin would have called him a useful idiot.
