Does this sound familiar?
Since the Sandinistas regained political power in 2007, they have overseen emergence of the most progressive state in Central America (CA):
- 2nd highest economic growth rates and most stable economy in Central America (CA)
- only country in the region producing 90 percent of the food it consumes
- poverty, and extreme poverty rates halved – country with greatest reduction of extreme poverty
- reached the UN Millennium Development Goal of cutting malnutrition in half
- free basic healthcare, including medicine
- free education for all primary and secondary students
- illiteracy virtually eliminated, down from 36 percent in 2006
- average economic growth of over 5 percent for past 5 years (per IMF and WB)
- safest country in CA with one of lowest crime rates in Latin America
- highest gender equality in the Americas (World Economic Forum Gender Gap Rept, 2017)
- kept out drug cartels, while pioneering community policing
- has not contributed to the migrant exodus to the US (unlike Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala)
- has the best roads in CA
- leader in renewable energy
- the leading tourist destination in CA (before the 2018 US coup attempt and orchestrated media demonization campaign)
- virtually uninterrupted electricity to 97 percent of the country
Doesn't that remind you of Libya, before the US destroyed Africa's most successful nation?
The chief goal of US foreign policy appears to be the destruction of any nation which resists US hegemony, especially those which are successful without following the US model.
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