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MisterP

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6. James Dunkerley notes that Nicaragua 1978-79 was way better off than El Salvador or Guatemala,

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Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:57 PM

Mar 2012

but Nicaragua had the successful revolution: his explanation is that it was conditions plus an unraveling of the dominant group in Managua that allowed 1979, whereas there was no such unraveling to the north

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