Nicaraguan_Food Insecurity_part_1.mp4

This video documents what I learned participating in A Witness for Peace delegation to Nicaragua--that food Insecurity and extreme poverty in Nicaragua is a direct consequence of decades of US Foreign Policy.

Without U.S. intervention, often brutally violent, Nicaraguans could quickly become self-sufficient, healthy and economically secure. This was demonstrated by the Sandinista revolution of 1979 which overthrew the 40+ year, U.S. installed Somoza dictatorship and began literacy campaigns, agrarian reform and educational programs, gaining praise from UNESCO, OXFAM, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank and other outside observers. But then US President Reagan's terrorist Contra War made sure the success was short lived. Today Nicaragua has become the 2nd poorest nation in the hemisphere and popular democracy remains but a dream.

A good book about the briefly successful Sandinista economy is "Nicaragua : what difference could a revolution make? : food and farming in the New Nicaragua," by Joseph Collins with Frances Moore Lappe, Nick Allen and Paul Rice. 1986.

A good book critiquing US Foreign Policy is "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace," by Noam Chomsky, Boston: South End Press, 1985.

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News & Politics

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• Nicaragua
• Food Insecurity
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• CAFTA
• Witness for Peace

[12amnews]

Just like George Carlin said. The world is fine it is people who is fucked up

[MrOnlinereviewer]

This is the part of Nicaragua that Ortega doesn't want the world to see.