The Financial Times says "it's no secret" but they must mean it's no secret among the Washington establishment, including the media, the propaganda organ. In the 2006 elections, Paul Trivelli, the US ambassador to Nicaragua issued a vigorous warning to the population against supporting Daniel Ortega. But we are told that US hostility towards these governments and their supporters are rooted in it's fears of Iranian influence, so called "narco-terrorism", and now even Al Qeada in "our backyard," echoing the bogus "Communist Conspiracy" pretext that was used to engineer consent for US terror, economic stangulation and coups in the region. However, Washington should be relieved that Mr Ortega has almost competely sold out the revolution. His rethoric is the exact opposite of his policies. He has alligned himself with the program of the US backed oligarchy and continues to defy the will of the people who voted him President. His own Sandinista party, by and large, have turned against him. He is the Barrack Obama of Nicaragua. His motives for abandoning the FSLN program he headed in the 80's are both apeasement and self interest. For an idea of what the Sandinstas accomplished in 80's, in "Nicaragua: The Threat of a Good Example?", Oxfam, the British charitable relief and development organization observes: As the New England Journal of Medicine put it: Unable to recover from US terror and economic strangulation which destroyed the "enormous" progress that was made, Nicaragua has remained the second poorest country in the hemisphere. Haiti being the first. It is no coincidence that the two countries with the most US influence are also the poorest, along with all of Central America not far behind. On Nicaragua's economic devastation by the late 1980s (quoting economic advisor Francisco Mayorga that: New Republic Editor, Michael Kinsley, observes that: Time Magazine acknowledges that U.S. policy was to: Nevertheless, Time states that, with the victory of U.N.O.:
