ABSTRACT
In a broad sense, the Sandinista revolution was undermined by an all-round war of aggression. On the military front, the US-sponsored Contra war had left 30,000 people dead in a country of some three million. Contra attacks targeted schools, clinics, electrical facilities, bridges and farms, traumatizing the country’s economic infrastructure and disrupting social services. On the economic front, the US economic embargo deprived Nicaragua of its historical market for agricultural products and, more importantly, of direct access to spare parts for its US-manufactured machinery. And on the international front, US vetoes deprived Nicaragua of any relief it might have received from lending agencies.
