Bianca Jagger Government Quotations

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.