Film: Nicaragua – A Nations Right To Survive

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John Pilger’s 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too ‘radical’ for the Reagan administration.
In this film, Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their “threat of a good example”.

3 thoughts on “Film: Nicaragua – A Nations Right To Survive”

  2. This is the worse documental i ever seen. Make look the sandinistas as Angels. Don’t talk how they kills thousands of people who they belive was Liberals or Somosistas. How they kill thousands in the north, womans and childrens. And bom this little cominitys becouse they belive they was helping the contras. I serve in the sandinista army, and know all this things. I know how they tourture people who oposit to then special Tomas Borge, one of the most criminal in Nicaragua.
    ortege the lider of the sandinistas, who can be acuse as A WORD CRIMINAL, and RAP his own daugter, why they don’t ask and talk whit all Nicaraguans? He only showe one side of the coin. He most get pay for the sandinistas. Very poor documental.

  3. I agree he got pay for the sandinistas.
    What a lie. I agree they should ask all Nicaraguans about what they thinkg about the sandinista goverment.

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