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The CIA, Iraq War, and American Democracy (Part 4)

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April 1991 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/philip-agee-on-cia-gulf-war-and.html

Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 - January 7, 2008) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices.

The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (in Spanish: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is a Socialist political party of El Salvador that was formerly a revolutionary guerrilla organization. The FMLN formed as an umbrella group on October 10, 1980 from the left wing guerilla organizations: the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL), Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP), the Resistencia Nacional (RN), the Partido Comunista Salvadoreño (PCS) and the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos (PRTC).

After peace accords were signed in 1992, all armed FMLN units were demobilized and their organization became a legal political party. The FMLN is now one of the two major political parties in El Salvador.

In the elections of March 15, 2009 the FMLN won the Presidential elections with former journalist Mauricio Funes as its candidate. Two months earlier in municipal and legislative elections, the FMLN won the majority of the mayoralties in the country (though losing San Salvador) and a plurality of the National Assembly seats (35 out of 84).

The Revolutionary Democratic Front (Spanish: Frente Democrático Revolucionario, FDR) was a coalition of mass organizations in El Salvador. It was aligned with the FMLN guerrilla movement. FDR was formed in 1980 through the merger of the Revolutionary Coordination of the Masses and the Salvadoran Democratic Front.

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, or FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s.

The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty and established a revolutionary government in its place. Following their seizure of power, the Sandinistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction. Following the resignation of centrist members from this Junta, the FSLN took exclusive power in March 1981; the Contras formed in 1981 to resist the Sandinista's Junta, but the CIA-backed Contra death squads did not cease even after Sandinistas were legitimately elected in 1984. In 1984, fair and free elections were held, which their main opposition boycotted nevertheless, in which they won the majority of the votes. Those who did oppose the Sandinistas won approximately a third of the seats.

The FSLN lost elections in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, after revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras, but retained a minority of seats in the legislature. The FSLN remains one of Nicaragua's two leading parties. The FSLN often polls in opposition to the Constitutional Liberal Party, or PLC. In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38.7% of the vote compared to 29% for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

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  • WIKILINKs hmmmm sounds like WAR CRIMES huh?

  • Thanks for uploading this compelling lecture. *****

  • Many more people should join CIA to dilute the organization and penatrate their operations. I don't care you are good guys or bad guys all you need is to over burden their ambitious laziness. Just make them busy as hell but without effectiveness. Iranians should do the same, corruptions and leaks in bad regimes are good for a lot of people but bad for the control freaks. Take care of each others the way they can't see the logic in their religious believes.

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