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"There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?"
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"How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends."
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