Reagan’s Disasters in Central America

At mid-term, the bellicose momentum of the Reagan administration’s policies toward Nicaragua, and toward Central America as a whole, has stalled. The reactionary impulse behind these policies (in the sense of an attempt to roll back change to the status quo ante) has never been disowned. To be sure, the charge that these policies are cruel, because they perpetuate and augment avoidable human suffering in little countries, does not disturb self-righteous officials and advisers; their val...