On Nicaragua, the silence of the left is deafening
By Ken Blackwell, opinion contributor — 07/24/18 05:30 PM EDT
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In recent weeks, Nicaragua has descended into violence and chaos. Driving that collapse has been the long-held Marxist, dictatorial instincts and brutal tactics of its president, Daniel Ortega.
He has a long record, and he was also leader of Nicaragua in the 1980s, famous for his Soviet-backed revolution, his opposition to the United States and his ability to get leading political and religious voices on the left to take up his cause — even in the United States.
Vice President Mike Pence and the State Department have recently denounced Ortega’s tactics, but the American and religious left has been largely silent. Interesting, since Ortega is a monster they helped create.
Throughout the 1980s, support of Nicaragua’s Soviet-aligned Sandinista regime was the darling of leftist Americans, left-wing American politicians and those around the world who sought to harmonize Christianity and Marxism through liberation theology.
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Despite the Sandinista’s overt Soviet, Cuban and East German ties, despite the fact that it imprisoned 10 times more political prisoners than the regime it overthrew, despite its destructive fiscal policies that shattered his country’s economy, Ortega’s regime received sympathy and support from many in the United States, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), New York Mayor Bill De Blasio and former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Even Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) sought out a prominent Sandinista priest in Nicaragua. The priest was later killed while invading Honduras as part of a Sandinista invasion force led by a protégé of Che Guevara.
John Kerry flew to Nicaragua with Tom Harkin and returned touting a peace plan with the Sandinistas that undermined President Reagan’s foreign policy.
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The killing of protesters, the burning alive of a family inside their home and his dictatorial clinging to power have deep roots in the repressive regime he created with the cover of the Soviet-supported merger of Marxism and Christianity.
Neither the political nor the religious left can be credible if they refuse to denounce Ortega now.
It’s time for them — and all of us — to learn that Marxist governments generally do produce one equality of outcome: They violate everyone’s human rights, no matter how much they dress themselves up in faux theology.
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