DesertFox
06-03-2006, 06:23 PM
LLoyd Billingsley
Front Page Magazine
2 June 06
The U.S. is not the only country that will go to the polls in November. Nicaragua does, too, and Daniel Ortega is running for president. Nicaraguans know Ortega as a FSLN comandante in designer glasses, a member of the Marxist Sandinista junta that oppressed and looted their country. According to his former sponsors, there's much more to the man and his supposedly independent movement today. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that he still beloved by the American Left, which wants him to win almost as much as it wants Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House.
Since the American Left yawned when the Venona papers showed that Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and other of their heroes were indeed traitors, the fact that Daniel Ortega, his brother Humberto, and many of their FSLN comrades are mentioned in recently revealed KGB files will probably cause no agonizing re-evaluation. Yet these important but neglected revelations show why the prospect of a new Ortega regime should concern American policy makers. That is especially true with the emergence of anti-American bullhorn Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who supports Ortega and would like his burgeoning left-wing axis to include a Nicaragua headed by the candidate of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional. ...
The victory of Violeta Chamorro stunned National Public Radio, among many others. Before leaving power the Sandinistas looted the country on a scale unmatched by Somoza.
More (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22696)
Front Page Magazine
2 June 06
The U.S. is not the only country that will go to the polls in November. Nicaragua does, too, and Daniel Ortega is running for president. Nicaraguans know Ortega as a FSLN comandante in designer glasses, a member of the Marxist Sandinista junta that oppressed and looted their country. According to his former sponsors, there's much more to the man and his supposedly independent movement today. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that he still beloved by the American Left, which wants him to win almost as much as it wants Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House.
Since the American Left yawned when the Venona papers showed that Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and other of their heroes were indeed traitors, the fact that Daniel Ortega, his brother Humberto, and many of their FSLN comrades are mentioned in recently revealed KGB files will probably cause no agonizing re-evaluation. Yet these important but neglected revelations show why the prospect of a new Ortega regime should concern American policy makers. That is especially true with the emergence of anti-American bullhorn Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who supports Ortega and would like his burgeoning left-wing axis to include a Nicaragua headed by the candidate of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional. ...
The victory of Violeta Chamorro stunned National Public Radio, among many others. Before leaving power the Sandinistas looted the country on a scale unmatched by Somoza.
More (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22696)