OpEdNews - Diary: Nicaragua: An unfinished Revolution

With the Right-Wing rearing its ugly head again in Central America and obviously receiving, at the very least, a wink and a nod from the Obama White House, which has yet to call the coup in Honduras a coup, Honduras is now potentially one of the Pentagon's launching pads in the region again. So we must ask, what is Obama's real agenda? Is it perhaps the "reconquest" of Latin America for Wall Street, as General Smedley Butler, USMC, put it decades ago, explaining that his role was to make Central America safe for United Fruit and other corporations to exploit.

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On July 19, 1979, the Sandinista revolution removed what many considered to be one of Latin America's most brutal dictatorships. Thirty years later, and with the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega once again in power, Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman visited Nicaragua and found that many of the revolution's promises have remained unfulfilled.

This is Part 3 of her documentary on Nicaragua, past and present, essential to understanding the forces at play today in the region, focusing on the political evolution and intrigues of the Sandinistas after the Contra War ended to regain the political power they had lost.

Here is Part 1, for those who haven't seen it:

and Part 2:

Nicaragua: An unfinished Revolution - Part 3