Did the citizens of Burlington, Vermont pay for this
commie’s junket to Nicaragua? You know
damn well this bum didn’t pay for it himself.
I’m amazed that this man can experience Latin
America’s third-world political, social and economic structure and learn
nothing from their failures. According
to this bozo, America is the cause for their misfortunes. What a dolt!
I suppose Bernie Sanders would blame Venezuela’s
collapsing economy on the United States as well.
The wild-eyed commie referred to the "fair elections" of the Sandinista government on multiple occasions during this interview. The Heritage Foundation published, 30 Myths About
Nicaragua by W. Bruce Weinrod in 1986.
Here is an excerpt.
#11: Elections have legitimized Sandinista power.
It is contended
that the U.S. should not be supporting forces struggling against the Sandinista
government because it has subjected itself to elections and is now the
legitimate government of Nicaragua. For the moment,, the Sandinistas clearly
are the effective governing force in Nicaragua but their raw power was in
no-way legitimized-by the elections of 1985.
The test for a
free and fair election has two parts: first whether the campaign itself was
free and fair,, and second,, whether the .election day balloting was free and
fair. on the first point alone, the elections were not free and fair. In fact,
the Sandinistas controlled every aspect of the election process, including the
electoral machinery, the police, the army, the courts, and mass organizations
such as neighborhood watch committees. Precisely because of the unfairness of
the electoral process, Arturo Cruz, the only real threat to the Sandinistas,
declined to become a presidential candidate.
The elections
themselves were not run fairly. Two-thirds of the precincts did not have a
single observer from any-party except the Sandinistas to monitor-the conduct of
voting operations and report on irregularities.
Outside observers
have also questioned the legitimacy of the elections. Carlos Andres Perez, who
was President of Venezuela at the time the Sandinistas took power and who
played an important ro le in supporting them at that time and subsequently,,
stated that "sufficient guarantees were not provided." Perez refused
to attend the inaugural ceremony and stated that he felt "cheated."
Arturo Cruz called the proceedings an "electoral charade." The Washington
Post stated that the Sandinistas"I'Marxist-Leninist side showed throuqh and
the democratic opposition, faced with a measure of harassment that prevented
fair campaigning, withdraw." And The New York Times stated,, "Only
the naive believe that Sunday's election was democratic or legitimizing proof
of the Sandinistas' popularity."
None of this
should come as a surprise to those who have reviewed statements made by the
Sandinistas themselves about elections. In August of 1981, Humberto Ortega stated
that elections-"will in no way decide who is going to hold power ... power
belongs to the Sandinistas, our directorate. In the spring of 1984, Bayardo Arce-called
elections a "nuisance," and said that the Sandinista goal was to
build "dictatorship of a proletariat."
Did Bernie Sanders know about those statements? I'm sure he did. However, these kind of details don't seem to matter to socialists.
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