Nicaragua has had her first democratic elections since the ones we don’t talk about.  We had, rather, they had these elections, and the logical result was that the dictator who armed his own people and then cynically instructed them not to overthrow him, was thrown out in a free and fair vote.  Well, it wasn’t exactly free, it cost us about $9 million.  And I think if you set aside the war, the trade embargo, the harbor mining and assassination attempts, I think you can say we bought that election fair and square.

Now, that election does leave the Sandinites as the largest single political organization in Nicaragua, and that’s all right, if they want to be that way.  But if they insist on disrupting that new-born democracy, by participating in it, then we’re going to have to fix their airport. Why? Because they don’t have a canal.  Another of their little tricks.  But they have proven that socialism doesn’t work.  I’ll just give you one example.  There are over 100 volcanoes in Nicaragua today, and after 10 years of Sandinite rule, only 20 of them are working.  So you can see it’s a system that pretty well condemns itself.