Nicaragua Quotes

• In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

  Bianca Jagger

  Dream, Equality, Law

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• The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Important, World, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.162, Humanix Books

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• I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, Winning

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• And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

  Alex Cox

  Mexican, Made, Shots

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

  Bianca Jagger

  Embargo, Weakening

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• I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

  Bianca Jagger

  Government, America, Speak

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• Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

  Edwin Meese

  Country, Clubs, Becoming

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• There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

  Elliott Abrams

  People, Way

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• There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Government, People

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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Law, United States

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• There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

  John Negroponte

  Couple, War, Taken

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• My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Country, Russia

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• I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

  Bianca Jagger

  Thinking, Differences, Revolution

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• My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

  Gioconda Belli

  Daughter, Son, United States

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• Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

  Arthur Frommer

  Becoming, Destination, Caribbean

  Arthur Frommer (2009). “Ask Arthur Frommer: And Travel Better, Cheaper, Smarter”, p.329, John Wiley & Sons

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• Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Order, Development, Bolivia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our business. Few people even recognize that this situation is in part an outgrowth of US policies going back to the 1980's. Nobody is concerned because Nicaragua is technically stable.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, People, Honduras

  Source: www.madre.org

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• First, undoubtedly, there are some people who are coming from Cuba who immediately, or from any other country, benefit. But, what is the difference between that and someone who is coming from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, etc.? That is, we are simply going to say that someone who comes from another country to the United States - the first five years they're here - they don't qualify for federal benefits. They may benefit from local benefits, state benefits. Those decisions belong to other jurisdictions.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Years, Differences

  Source: www.univision.com

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• It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

  Diana Lopez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

  Michael Parenti

  School, Marine, Order

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• If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, War, Long

  "On Terrorism". Interview with John Bolender, chomsky.info. January, 2004.

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• Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Writing, Years

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

  Asher Roth

  Teacher, School, Goal

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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