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==Reagan==

==Reagan==

[[President Reagan]] said, "... just as [[Castro]] had done in Cuba, the Sandinistas ousted the other parties to the revolution. Many of them are now the [[Contras]]. They exiled some, they jailed some, they murdered some. And they installed a [[Marxist-Leninist]] [[totalitarian]] Government. [https://web.archive.org/web/20010218172306/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez4.html]

[[President Reagan]] said, "... just as [[Castro]] had done in Cuba, the Sandinistas ousted the other parties to the revolution. Many of them are now the [[Contras]]. They exiled some, they jailed some, they murdered some. And they installed a [[Marxist-Leninist]] [[totalitarian]] Government. [https://web.archive.org/web/20010218172306/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez4.html]

In 1981 Robert McFarlane, then assistant to the Secretary of State proposed a coordinated covert political, economic, and military approach to the pro-Communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the insurgency in El Salvador. His proposal was approved in January, 1982, in "National Security Directive 17," which provided for a $20 million program against the Sandinista government and gave the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) responsibility for organizing a five-hundred-man "interdiction" force.<ref>See [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-017.htm Portions online]</ref> Democrats in Congress began voicing opposition in 1982; Reagan and Congress were in constant battle until 1987, when all five Central American heads of state signed a peace accord. The Sandinistas and Contras signed a cease-fire agreement in 1988, and in 1991 democratic elections overthrew the Sandinista regime.<ref>James M. Scott, "Interbranch Rivalry and the Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua." ''Political Science Quarterly'' 1997 112(2): 237-260.</ref>   

In 1981 Robert McFarlane, then assistant to the Secretary of State proposed a coordinated covert political, economic, and military approach to the pro-Communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the insurgency in El Salvador. His proposal was approved in January, 1982, in "National Security Directive 17," which provided for a $20 million program against the Sandinista government and gave the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) responsibility for organizing a five-hundred-man "interdiction" force.<ref>See [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-017.htm Portions online]</ref> Democrats in Congress began voicing opposition in 1982; Reagan and Congress were in constant battle until 1987, when all five Central American heads of state signed a peace accord. The Sandinistas and Contras signed a cease-fire agreement in 1988, and in 1991 democratic elections overthrew the Sandinista regime.<ref>James M. Scott, "Interbranch Rivalry and the Reagan Doctrine in Nicaragua." ''Political Science Quarterly'' 1997 112(2): 237-260.</ref>