Somoza Regime Puns

Nicaragua was rocked by political turmoil in the late 1970s, with widespread riots and multiple anti-government general strikes occurring in 1978. A violent campaign to overthrow the government was also initiated by the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Despite these efforts, the leader of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, remained in power.

On this day in 1978, the FSLN staged a massive kidnapping operation where they captured the National Palace. Led by Éden Pastora, the Sandinistan forces captured the Palace while the legislature was in session, taking more than 1,000 hostages. Pastora demanded money, the release of Sandinistan prisoners, and "a means of publicizing the Sandinista cause."

After two days, the government agreed to pay $500,000 and to release certain prisoners, marking a major victory for the FSLN. Somoza was finally ousted in 1979, and the Sandinistas came into power.

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Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, so please let me know if there's a better sub for this question!

I was watching an old 1985 PBS News Hour Interview of Fidel Castro which includes a response interview at the end by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam. In his response, Dan states that the US was financially supporting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua for a time before later turning against them and supporting the Contras.

Maybe I just overlooked something? But I've tried googling this and reading wikipedia articles on it, and I'm only seeing information on the Iran-Contra affair and nothing about the supposed US support of the Sandinistas.

So, my question is this: is Dan telling the truth about US support of the Sandinistas? And if so, does anyone have suggestions on where can I learn more about this?

Thanks so much!! :)

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15,000,000: Atlantic slave trade (1500–1870)

150,000: French repression of Haiti slave revolt (1792–1803)

300,000: French conquest of Algeria (1830–1847)

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29,000,000: Famine in British Colonized India (1876–1879 & 1897–1902)

3,445: Black people lynched in the US (1882–1964)

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From the end of WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States has been responsible for providing aid to regimes with questionable human rights records that violently suppressed leftist movements within their own countries. Examples of this include the Republic of Vietnam, the Pinochet regime in Chile, the South Korean military junta, the Somoza regime in Nicaragua and the Contras, the Shah in Iran, Suharto in Indonesia and Marcos in the Philippines, etc.

Was support of these regimes conducive to US interests and/or the long-term liberty and wellbeing of the world at large? If not for these interventions, would the whole world have fallen to Communist influence under the Chinese or the Soviets? Which specific "allies" were worth supporting and which weren't?

edit: not getting a lot of responses, just a lot of insults. If you guys cant see how the profit motive started so many of these historical events, idk what to tell you

Really tired of hearing reactionaries on this sub claim that communism or socialism or whatever is the worse thing to ever exist. Lets talk about how much human suffering has been caused and will continue to exist thanks to the malignant nature of capitalism. To begin on a high note:

According to UNICEF, WHO, and other sources: somewhere between 6-10 million children die per year from preventable diseases and malnutrition. Thats at least 60 million every decade or at least 300 million every 50 years. And thats being generous considering how poverty is supposed to have been reducing over the last half century. We have enough food to feed 10 billion people but we dont because its expensive and "inefficient" and disprupts the market.

Great Bengal Famine: killed 10 million of the 30 million overtaxed Bengalis, starved to death.

Opium Wars: millions of Chinese died, struggled with drug addiction and then millions more died when they fought to stop Britain from flooding the Chinese market with opium.

Indian Rebellion of 1857: Uprising against the rule of the British East India Company. Almost 800,00 Indians died from the rebellion as reprisals for the 2,000 British deaths and from famines and epidemics that resulted there after

The Upper Doab Famine of 1860-1861: Up to 2 million people killed by Queen Victoria

The Orissa Famine of 1866: at least 2 million killed under Queen Victorias rule, starving farmers werer forced to export large quantities of rice to Great Britain

The Great Famine of 1876-1878: a famine in India under British rule, per Queen Victoria, which killed an estimated 5.6 million people

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Daniel Ortega rises from the ashes to crush dissent by jailing his political opponents and winning a record 4th term in a sham election! While human rights groups and newspapers have been shuttered. No freedom of the Press here! "What Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, orchestrated today was a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic," Biden said in a White House press release. Oh, the irony. America had its first sham election last year too! Nicaragua has had a long violent history of turmoil marked by various wars and revolutions. The Nicaraguan revolution (1961-1990) encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista Liberation National Front (FSLN) to oust the dictatorship in 1978–79, the subsequent efforts of the FSLN to govern Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, and the Contra war, which was waged between the marxist FSLN-led government of Nicaragua and the U.S.–backed right wing Contras from 1981to 1990, during the Reagan administration. The revolution marked a significant period in Nicaragua and revealed the country as one of the major proxy war battlegrounds of the Cold War, attracting much international media attention. Daniel Ortega reigned over Nicaraguan with an iron fist throughout the 1980s. In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Following their seizure of power, the Sandinista's ruled the country first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction. The corrupt dictator, "won" re-election again in 2007 after a long absence.

Political unrest erupted again in 2018. In April 2018, student protests over a nature reserve fire expanded to cover an unpopular decree that would have cut social security benefits and increased taxpayer contributions. The protesters were violently set upon by the state sponsored Sandinista Youth. Despite attempts by Ortega's tyrannical regime to hide the incident through censorship of all privately-owned news outlets, photos and videos of the violence made their way to social media where they sparked outrage and urged more Nicaraguans to join in on the protests! Authorities were also seen arming Sandinista Youth members with weapons to serve as paramilitary forces. Dozens of student protesters were subsequently killed. Des

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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/world/nicaragua-political-repression.html

Written by Anatoly Kurmanaev, the NYT journalist who was barred from entering Nicaragua in June by Sandinista government officials, and two Nicaraguan journalists, Yubelka Mendoza and Alfonso Flores Bermudez.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The nights were the hardest.

From the moment Medardo Mairena decided to run for president, in direct challenge to Nicaragua’s authoritarian leader, he was certain the security apparatus would eventually come for him.

Over the summer, he watched as other opposition leaders disappeared. One by one, they were dragged from their homes amid a nationwide crackdown on dissent by the president, Daniel Ortega, whose quest to secure a fourth term had plunged the Central American nation into a state of pervasive fear.

Since June, the police have jailed or put under house arrest seven candidates for November’s presidential election and dozens of political activists and civil society leaders, leaving Mr. Ortega running on a ballot devoid of any credible challenger and turning Nicaragua into a police state.

Mr. Mairena himself was banned from leaving Managua. Police patrols outside his house had scared away nearly all visitors, even his family.

During the day, Mr. Mairena kept busy, campaigning over Zoom and scanning official radio announcements for clues to the growing repression. But at night he lay awake, listening for sirens, certain that sooner or later the police would come and he would disappear into a prison cell.

“The first thing I ask myself in the morning is, when are they coming for me?” Mr. Mairena, a farmers’ rights activist, said in a telephone interview in late June. “It’s a life in constant dread.”

His turn came just days after the call. Heavily armed officers raided his home and took him away late on July 5.

He had not been heard from until last Wednesday, when relatives were allowed one brief visit. They said they found him emaciated and sick, completely disconnected from the outside world.

Government critics say the unpredictability and speed of the wave of arrests have turned Nicaragua into a more repressive state than it was during the early years of the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, who was overthrown in 1979 by the Sandinista Revolutionary Movement led by Mr. Ortega and several other commanders. The Sandinistas governed the country until losing democratic elections and ceding power in 1990. In 2007, Mr. Ortega returned as presid

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I have posted a lot on Cuba on this form because it has been in the news. I want to talk about Cuban exiles because there perspective and narrative is often the dominant one in a American and even North American scene. So what I will say first of all is this. Many of them have suffered and that should not be dismissed in leftist circles. Particularly those who left in the 80s and 90s as refugees when the economic conditions were dire. Crossing the straits to Miami was a dangerous path that could in many cases result in near drowning or deaths. Speaking as a Christian the scriptures talk about welcoming the stranger and many are a refugee community.

However they are also a complicated community and are as complicated as the revolution itself. And that should be discussed openly and honestly without partisan bias. The ones who left in the 80s and 90s, what are called the Balseros, come from a racially mixed background and left either because of authoritarianism or because of the down turn of economic conditions that was caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and exacerbated by the U.S embargo. Their plight was harsh and caused a massive refugee crisis with a tremendous amount of suffering that should not be ignored. However the earlier waves that left, particularly after 1959 where predominantly white. And many left because they opposed the land reform initiatives the Castro government was proposing, the nationalisation campaign of U.S run businesses, as well as the affirmative action programs introduced by Che Guevara in education that would have brought about integration into the education system and access for blacks for the first time. Then there is another set called the Peter Pan generation.

This is an interesting group because they came out of the CIA program done with the Catholic Church in Florida called Operation Peter Pan. Essentially it started with false propaganda about Che Guevara's literacy campaign that they were going to send children forcibly to the Soviet Union. This led Cuban parents to send unaccompanied minors with CIA and U.S agents with Catholic officials across the straights of the Caribbean. In some cases they were reunited with their parents. In other cases no. The "Peter Pan generation" had mixed opinions on the Revolution. Some wanted to stay in America. There were others however who actually wanted to go back to Cuba. So the Cuban exile community is complicated.

Now with all of this said, it also needs to be said that el

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Nicaragua has had a history of US military presence and US-Canadian economic exploitation. They had supported many regimes in the nation that focused on stability over progression and would intervene when their interests were threatened. In 1931 syndiclists tired of a lack of progression and fiercely Anti-American overthrew the government, they had been waging a guerrilla war since the mid 1920s, with this the US forces who had helped keep the previous regimes in power were forced to leave the country. However, the east remained untouched by the Syndies and the US warned if they were to push eastwards they would return. Sacasa became leader in the west in 1932, little has been done under the government other than consolidation over the past 4 years.

There is still a threat, not posed from the US but from the Nicaraguan National Guard under Anastasio Somoza Garcia fled into the Honduran jungle. They made contact with the Hondurans who agreed to help them retake the nation, if they are able to nothing more than a total Paternal Autocratic regime will follow. However, the National Guard could garner the support of the people in the East, they are religious and conservative with knowledge primarily surrounding agriculture, all of these are big ideological and religious beliefs strongly emphasised by the National Guard.

No matter what the outcome of the conflict is Nicaragua will enter a new age of economic prosperity as they will finally be able to exploit the nations many riches without US or Canadian economic interference since both states seem extremely tied up in their own problems.

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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.