Central America–Pain and Struggle

The astonishing thing about the Reagan administration’s policy toward Nicaragua is its resiliency. Twice in the space of a year, it appeared that the administration’s sponsorship of a proxy war was on the brink of failure: in November 1986, when control of the U.S. Senate was won by the Democrats and when the Iran-contra scandal began to unravel and a pattern of lying, corruption and other sleaziness was revealed; and again in August 1987 when the five Central American Pres...