Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Five years since a crackdown began, what's next for Nicaragua? | Inside Story" video.

  1. The Ortegas are a far-left version of the Somozas.
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  2.  @swingingsteel  Because even they know that socialism cannot survive without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability.
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  3. Meh. The Sandinistas were backed by the USSR.
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  4.  @Mike-mc3sh  Yes it does.
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  5. Like who? Isaias Afwerki?
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  6. Actually yes they have. Yugoslavia under Tito. Somalia under Barre. And Guyana under Burnham.
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  7. LOL.
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  8. To side with evil Russia and China. Yet no country ever prospered for long doing business with either of those countries.
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  9. LOL. Is that a joke?
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  10. <free health care > But of lackluster quality.
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  11.  @dom_diggity.1488  <It’s about not letting a small group of people to own everything.> Yes it is. Socialism = letting government officials own everything. It lends itself very well to kleptocracy.
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  12.  @winesap2  <Fortunately, he has never been anything like Somoza, > As in he ran Nicaragua into the ground worse than Somoza and making it currently the 2nd poorest country in the Americas.
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  13.  @winesap2  Most of them sharing more or less the same political views as Ortega.
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