Ortega has former contras shaking in their blood soaked boots

[ck4829]

At the end of Nicaragua's civil war, Juan Gregorio Rodriguez traded his life as a Contra rebel for that of auto mechanic in Florida. He kept in touch with other rebels and supported their political efforts, but mostly from afar.

That changed in 2006, when the Contras' nemesis, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, was elected president, 16 years after his Soviet-backed government lost power in a vote that ended the guerrilla conflict in which some 30,000 people died.

His return to power has galvanized dozens of former Contras in the United States to plunge back into the politics of their Central American homeland, lobbying for support from the U.S. Congress and joining anti-Ortega movements with former colleagues in Nicaragua. Some even warn darkly that armed resistance is again a possibility.

What really disturbs these former Contras is Ortega's plan to revive Sandinista neighborhood watch committees, which became his eyes and ears during his first presidency. Rodriguez and some other ex-Contras also feel betrayed by compromises made by their former comrades in arms since the war. Some have even joined the Sandinistas: Ortega's vice president, Jaime Morales, is a former Contra spokesman.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_re_us/contra_comeback

[Peace Patriot]

1. See this thread form my comment on the Associated Press coverage of the

South American Left...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3176174

Both the above, and the following thread, have interesting Bush/CIA...ahem, AP "talking points" (and black holes where information should be) about Chavez today...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3176628

But most importantly, see

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

...which I discuss in Comment 10 in the 2nd link above:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3176628

...if you want to know my thoughts about what's really going on.

And if view of that--Rumsfeld's Oil War II--it is no surprise at all that Miami fascists are being filtered back into Nicaragua, one of Venezuela's allies in the leftist social justice movement that has swept South America, and closely allied to all of Rumsfeld's new oil targets: Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina.