This enabled some of the reforms US advisers wanted. The security forces in the capital basically evaporated.
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US suggested declaring martial law. So that happened. But some reforms to the police also occurred in the capital.
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At the same time, due to abuses, protesters and the most anti-imperialist Congress in history canceled US police assistance.
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Now the Somoza family had its prior experience with repression aided by new technologies the US had delivered.
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Repression continued....until the revolution in 1979.
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Then many of the Guardia Nacional members who'd been getting US aid officially started to receive it unofficially when they became Contras.
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All of that is to say that the history of violence, repression, and impunity was lengthy and extensive.
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BUT today Nicaragua is both the poorest Cent. Am. country AND the least violent.
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Today, it receives no police assistance from the US, unlike its neighbors, all of which get much from the US for military & civilian police.
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not that I don't love twitter essays but I hope you're going to write this up as a nacla piece or scholarly article!
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whoops meant to end with a ? but the ! also appropriate
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