Who Lost Nicaragua?
By Oliver North WASHINGTON, D.C. — During the 1980 presidential campaign, Republicans pointed out that Jimmy Carter had “lost Nicaragua” to communism. The 1979 Sandinista “Revolution Without Frontiers” led by Daniel Ortega was just one of many foreign policy disasters during the Carter administration — and Ronald Reagan assured Americans that such things wouldn’t happen on his “watch.” Unfortunately, Reagan is gone, and today Nicaragua looks like a case of “back to the future.” On Nov. 5 — just two days before our own mid-term congressional elections — the people of Nicaragua will cast ballots for a new president. Friends of democracy in Latin America have been stunned by new polls showing that Ortega — the ardent Marxist who once ruled Managua with a Soviet-backed iron fist — is again poised to take control of government, a decade and a half after U.S.-backed freedom fighters succeeded in ousting him from power. If he wins, Ortega will have key regional allies — men who, by the
