Curious.
I thought that our country was the only one with the 80's nostalgia:
"Daniel Ortega, who fought the American-backed contras in a bloody war in the 1980s, held a strong lead over four other Nicaraguan presidential candidates in preliminary results here, officials said early Monday."
Funnier, still, is the ideological line that Reagan style Capitalism was so self evidentally better that if the people knew, they'd see the truth.
The truth is...maybe it doesn't work in every case. Maybe Nicaragua is so messed up as a result of the predatory capitalism.
According to a NPR report yesterday with a skeptical Jimmy Carter, who is down there helping to oversee the vote, Ortega has reinvented himself for the new millennium. However, I doubt whether the Nicaraguan people have the full skinny about the inherent problems of "trickle-down" economics, à la Reagan's supply-side economics--capital gains and tax cuts for corporate wealth, fewer regulations and restrictions on corporate behavior, etc.
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