"Is that what you would say to a Nicaraguan declaring that he wants liberty not the lesser of 2 evils?" There were quite few of those. And even then he should've been a bit grateful that the Sandinistas told America what to do with their exportation of fascism. The Sandinistas accepted their being voted out once the threat of the Contras were no more, and even then the CIA spent taxpayer dollars to make it so.
"The dominant rebel leaders who controlled the FSLN such as Daniel Ortega were strongly authoritarian Marxist. However the new junta initially contained a broad spectrum of ideologies. Upon assuming power, its political platform included the following:
Nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their collaborators.
Land reform.
Improved rural and urban working conditions.
Free unionisation for all workers, both urban and rural.
Control of living costs, especially basic necessities (food, clothing, and medicine).
Improved public services, housing conditions, education (mandatory, free through high school; schools available to the whole national population; national literacy campaign).
Nationalization and protection of natural resources, including mines.
Abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty.
Protection of democratic liberties (freedom of expression, political organization and association, and religion; return of political exiles).
Equality for women. [4]
Free, non-aligned foreign policy and relations.
Formation of a new, democratic, and popular army under the leadership of the FSLN.
Pesticide controls
Rain forest conservation
Wildlife conservationAlternative energy programs
Notably absent from this list are such traditionally fundamental "Marxist" views (actually Leninist, Maoist, or Stalinist) as the forced eradication of religious organizations, a one-party state, and the subsumption of all labor organizations, labor leadership, and political leadership into some form of "soviet" (or an organizational/political analogue, e.g. the Maoist Red Guard). In addition, the early FSLN concerned itself with such non-"Marxist" (in the traditional sense) platforms such as the right to free unionization, the protections of free speech, free and independent political organization, the free practice of religion, and a remarkably prescient environmental concern, all of which signaled that the FSLN -- at least in its initial manifestation -- shared little with traditional Marxism and its fiercest progenitors of the era, the Cubans or the Soviet."
Yep, what a bunch of leftard bastards they were. How dared they be violent and hate the Contras. Also, they were voted out in February of 1990. You really must have inherited that "PLEASE RAPE ME"-gene from your mom.
"In order to have a government that serves the people you need liberty. If socialism is a system of government that serves the people, a true socialist must also be libertarian." Sure thing. The Sandinistas were not very very supergreat but considering what they inherited from Samozo and how America tried to turn Nicaragua into hell they did a fucking good job.