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Article: Sandinistas to Reagan: we'll outlast you.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 3, 1985
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Sandinistas to Reagan: We'll Outlast You
Despite the U.S. trade embargo, Nicaragua's Sandinista rulers are increasingly confident that they can survive the Reagan administration and thwart the American President's efforts to topple their Marxist regime.
"The Sandinistas are convinced,' says a veteran diplomat in this rundown capital, "that all they have to do is hand on through the rest of Ronald Reagan's term. Then, things will get better for them, no matter who wins the White House in 1988.'
Even critics predict that the revolutionary government will ride out the President's campaign to bring it down through trade sanctions or U.S. aid to ...