Character: Ronald Reagan

Reagan justified the armed struggle in Nicaragua. “The people of Nicaragua are captives of a totalitarian regime. He poses a serious threat, given the presence in the country of a large number of Cuban, pro-Soviet and radical Arab volunteers." He went so far as to call the Contras “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers of the United States.” The people he described so flatteringly are responsible for the deaths of thirty thousand Nicaraguan civilians.