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Subject: Anderson Cooper: Justify Your #DemDebate Claim About Nicaragua
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Dear Miriam,
Press Anderson Cooper to justify his unsubstantiated claim about Nicaragua.
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During the first Democratic presidential debate, CNN journalist Anderson
Cooper challenged Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about his supposed
"electability" issues in this way:
"The question is really about electability here, and that's what I'm trying
to get at. You - the - the Republican attack ad against you in a general
election - it writes itself. You supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. You
honeymooned in the Soviet Union. And just this weekend, you said you're not
a capitalist. Doesn't - doesn't that ad write itself?" [1]
Anderson Cooper is showing his pro-Empire bias by trying to re-write the
history of U.S. foreign policy in Nicaragua on the side of the Empire.
Press Anderson Cooper to justify his unsubstantiated claim about Nicaragua
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Millions of Americans "supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua." In 1979, the
Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrew the US government-installed
Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, promising to address Nicaragua's extreme
poverty and the lack of basic government services like education and health
care for the majority of the population. In 1982, Nicaragua was recognized
by the World Health Organization as the third world country that had made
the most progress in health care.
Under the Reagan Administration, the CIA organized a terrorist army (the
"Contras") to attack the Nicaraguan government. Millions of Americans
participated in a solidarity movement to oppose US military intervention in
Nicaragua, including public radio host Ira Glass [2], actors Ed Asner, Mike
Farrell and Diane Ladd, civil rights leader Julian Bond [3] and engineer Ben
Linder, who was killed in a terrorist attack by the CIA's army. [4] The
US-Nicaragua solidarity movement succeeded in passing the Boland Amendment
in Congress, cutting off US funding to the CIA's terrorist army, which led
the Reagan Administration to try to fund the Contras illegally through arms
sales to Iran. When this illegal arrangement was exposed, it became the
Iran-Contra scandal. [5]
Challenge Anderson Cooper to justify his unsubstantiated claim that having
opposed the CIA's illegal war against Nicaragua in the 1980s is a political
liability in the United States today by signing and sharing our petition:
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References:
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/us/politics/democratic-debate-transcript.h
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2. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/378/transcript
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3. http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1123/112357.html
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4.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/09/23/in-search-of-ben-linders-killer
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5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment
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