Playboy Interview: The Sandinistas
September, 1983
In April of this year, the President of the United States called an extraordinary Joint Session of Congress to get support for his Central American economic-and-military-aid program, to talk about progress toward democracy that the government of El Salvador had been making--and to denounce the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Among President Reagan's charges against the Nicaraguans: They were Marxists; they were becoming a Cuban and/or a Soviet military base; they were encouraging r...
