Sandinistas Quotes

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

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