THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY

THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY

In the 1980s, the Republican team of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush tried to destroy the Central American nation of Nicaragua. After a century of U.S. support for yet another right-wing dictatorship dedicated to the protection of America’s corporate interests, Nicaraguan freedom fighters – the Sandinistas - overthrew the Somoza family and began the difficult work of salvaging their country. The leader of the Socialist revolution was Daniel Ortega and for most of the decade the Regan-Bush team tried to kill him, his family, his army and his country. The killers – the Contras – hired by the Regan-Bush hit team failed. Daniel Ortega served as president from 1985 to 1990 and was defeated in the 1990 election. Now there is news that Ortega is leading in the latest poll of that country’s top presidential contenders. A footnote to US intervention in Nicaragua in the 80s is the fact that so many of the hired killers, whose objective was murder and counterrevolution, are once again working in a Bush Administration: The criminal enterprise of George W.