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Anti-Americanism on the Left in Latin America
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is more critical of the US than Osama bin Laden. Now Ronald Reagan's old nemesis has been re-elected President of Nicaragua .
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readVenezuela's Hugo Chavez is more critical of the US than Osama bin Laden. Now Ronald Reagan's old nemesis has been re-elected President of Nicaragua. In the 1980's the Reagan administration helped finance the Nicaraguan Contras in their bloody civil war against Daniel Ortega, the radical leftist Sandinista who had ousted American-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza. In 1990, Ortega was voted out, and he's been trying to win re-election ever since. This year, Iran-Contra figure Oliver North campaigned against Ortega and the Bush Administration backed his opponent, but Ortega won. Does he represent the growth of leftist anti-Americanism? Should the US re-engage with its Latin America neighbors south of the border?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Vanessa Romo
LA School Report
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Director of the Independent Institute's Center on Global Prosperity
Timothy Charles Brown
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Peter Hakim
President of the Inter-American Dialogue
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