>>22 "The leftist Sandinistas (the FSLN) took power from the Samoza family dictatorship after a long civil war and formed a government in 1979. The Sandinista government organized a literacy drive to prepare the largely illiterate electorate for elections, instituted social reforms like agrarian reform, universal healthcare, universal education, social welfare, industrialisation, and then coordinated Nicaragua's first multiparty election in 1984, at which time the Sandinista's won a large majority of the popular vote. The country faced a violent insurgency by the Contras, significant elements of which were mercenary-terrorist armies organized, trained and funded illegally by the United States (The United States and the Nicaraguan Revolution. The National Security Archive, The George Washington University; The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations / Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras. The National Security Archive, The George Washington University). By the time of the next elections in 1990, the Sandinistas lost the mandate to rule and assumed the role of Nicaragua's primary opposition party." However, I should mention that the Sandinistas violated human rights of many Indians and shelled villages that were taken by the Contras as punishment. The Contras were worse though. The Contras would never have allowed democratic elections or utilitarian sweeping social changes. The Sandinistas later seceded to the Autonomy Law of 1987, making it the first Latin American country "to officially recognise its multiethnic nature, guaranteeing the economic, cultural, linguistic and religious rights demanded by the indigenous groups of the Atlantic Coast.". That's recognition that the indigenous US indians didn't really get.
"As much as you salivate to the idea of wearing a beret and tromping through the jungle with an AK47, intimidating villages for the better good in the fallacious belief that the dictatorship of the proletariat will actually work and this is all justified, the true underdogs are the plucky entrepeneurs who gave people what they really want, televisions, air conditionners, convertibles, microwaves, designer clothes, telecommunications etc etc.. People who actually make a difference." None of the countries the CIA imposed their own version of free trade on really enjoyed it, becuase this was a package deal in which oppressive ultra-right regimes were installed to ensure that US interests could do whatever.
"The US is a plucky underdog because it influences the lives of everyone on the planet without having to pull a gun to their head." First, this is a partial lie, second, your presence on this earth is not necessarily a net good and it sure as fuck isn't sustainable.