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In 1985 Sanders was "the highest ranking American official” to attend a parade celebrating the [[Sandinista]] seizure of power in Nicaragua as Daniel Ortega's guest. Other wire reports described it as an “anti-U.S. rally" with the crowd chanting “Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die.”<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bernie-sanders-radical-past-how-the-vermont-230255076.html Bernie Sanders’ radical past: How the Vermont firebrand started wearing a suit and gave up on taking over big companies], Hunter Walker, Yahoo Politics, January 17, 2016.</ref>
In 1985 Sanders was "the highest ranking American official” to attend a parade celebrating the [[Sandinista]] seizure of power in Nicaragua as Daniel Ortega's guest. Other wire reports described it as an “anti-U.S. rally" with the crowd chanting “Here, there, everywhere/the Yankee will die.”<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bernie-sanders-radical-past-how-the-vermont-230255076.html Bernie Sanders’ radical past: How the Vermont firebrand started wearing a suit and gave up on taking over big companies], Hunter Walker, Yahoo Politics, January 17, 2016.</ref>
Sanders thought the Sandinista [[Marxist-Leninist]] clique had much to teach Burlington: “Vermont could set an example to the rest of the nation similar to the type of example Nicaragua is setting for the rest of [[Latin America]].”<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro And The Sandinistas Could Teach America A Lesson], Michael Moynihan, ''Daily Beast'', 02.27.16.</ref>
Sanders thought the Sandinista [[Marxist-Leninist]] clique had much to teach Burlington: “Vermont could set an example to the rest of the nation similar to the type of example Nicaragua is setting for the rest of [[Latin America]].”
In 1987 Sanders hosted Nora Astorga of the Sandinistas to Burlington. Astorga had lured Gen. Reynaldo Perez-Vega, a high-ranking figure in the Somoza regime, to her apartment with promises of sex. Perez-Vega’s body was later recovered wrapped in a Sandinista flag with his throat slit.<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro And The Sandinistas Could Teach America A Lesson], Michael Moynihan, ''Daily Beast'', 02.27.16.</ref>
===U.S Peace Council===
===U.S Peace Council===