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Randy Weivoda
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This is going to be a lazy post on my part. I'm not going to take the time to do proper research and give you a timeline of Nicaragua's adventures with the Sandinistas running the country. The short and sloppy version is this: The Sandinistas are a communist rebel group that overthrew the Nicaraguan government in the late 1970s. Eventually, the people were allowed to vote on their leadership in 1990, and they voted Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas out. Hooray!

Eventually, though, Nicaraguans forgot that when Ortega ran the joint, they weren't allowed to vote for several years. So they voted him back in, in 2006. Were Nicaraguans surprised when Daniel Ortega clamped down on political opposition and ran an authoritarian government? I hope no one is surprised that he recently declared that Nicaragua is done with elections for good. Maybe I'm being hard-hearted, but I really can't muster up much sympathy for fools who escaped communism, then voted it back in.

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