. >> in 1979, the sandinistas toppled somoza.hey quickly began mass literacy programs and redistribution of land. ortega emerged as president. the coalition would not last and civil war engulfed the country. when the dust finally settled in 1990, the sandinistas declared re-presidential elections. ortega lost and began 16 years in opposition. this is where daniel ortega likes to position himself, beside leaders hugo chavez and fidel castro. they are gone from power while he is changed. he became a catholic, passing a stringent antiabortion law in return for the church's support. in 2007 he allied with rightists over opponents to regain the presidency. he has held it ever since. despite widespread criticism of unfair elections. under his combination of social programs and free-market policies, the economy has grown substantially. the long-term opponent of capitalism says nicaragua has to be pragmatic. >> we are making progress toward socialism. in what time frame, i could not say. we are building our programs and projects based on

she said wednesday she would watch the member of the sandinista government stoop down to pick up a paperclip that it dropped onto the floor. nicaragua had been so impoverished by the war that there seemed nothing they could consider office supplies. she could tell by the look in his eyes that the paperclip was cherished. this was the most moving moment in her time of witnessing there. this may well be how it is for us, so wasteful of so much for so long. but maybe not. nostradamus's prophecy of nuclear war during this very period notwithstanding. perhaps we can learn how to change our course in a way that means that we and all of earth's resources will not be consumed in war. war which is perhaps the most blatantly unintelligent and unproductive activity that humans are engaged in. of course there are others. a general waste of earth's resources constituting a major and unwinnable war. unwinnable war not only against our common mother but against ourselves. that the planet is fed up. the planet is tired of us. my friend of lakota and kickapoo ancestry is to come to my house exhausted from sp

administration and because we were traveling frequently with the f m l n rebels in el salvador or the sandinistas in the battle against the contras in nicaragua we had numerous officials within washington denouncing us as fifth columnists supporters of terrorists so i've already heard the rhetoric already know how it goes down but this essentially goes beyond rhetoric and empowers the state not only to brand you linguistically a terrorist but treats you legally as a terrorist. this is an issue that we felt important enough to cover and dedicate the entire show to but there's a fork in the road right now and there's a choice we all have to make we're going to relinquish our rights or we can stand for them but the time to act is now also one. say thank you to many great people for making today's show happen the sparrow projects and it's the pond and the plane descent attorneys in the case chris hedges. aleck's o'brien and of course justin radek and thomas drake as well as all of the brave and heroic activists and journalists out there who are not afraid to speak truth to power so let's keep doing i

the media and in nicaragua during the 1980's you had to newspapers it was the mouthpiece of the sandinistas and the people there knew it. they knew that they were getting a communist position here in the conservative position there so that wasn't too problematic in so many places. i think it's more problematic than the other in the country with a dwindling free press has in russia. the problem is when the media comes on our shores because we are so gullible and there is a reason why the russian times has a television station in the united states. it isn't because they want to be a news operation for the united states it is because they have a mission in the united states. there is a reason why al jazeera is in the united states. it's not because they want to come alongside fox. it's because they have a mission in the united states. to many of our citizenry are oblivious to this agenda of b.c.. so why worry about the impact it has on them and not so much the impact they have on their own people. >> do you see the current race impacting the 2016 national elections and would you suggest or hav

. >>> juan ramÓn gimÉnez, diputado sandinista le echa la culpa a somoza de baile que controlaban el poderte no se distribuyÓ nada. >>> quÉ pasaron con esas donaciones? eran regalos. la verdad que jamÁs se creÓ, se presentÓ un informe, no habÍa transparencia, fue un saqueo de parte de la buena parte de la cooperaciÓn internacional. >>> no existen cifras exactas, del monto de la ayuda internacional que recibiÓ, pero mÁs de 40 aÑos despuÉs, son la mejor prueba que esa ayuda jamÁs llegÓ a los que mÁs la necesitaban. >>> el gobierno estÁ construyendo un barrio, reubicÓ a varias familias, el proceso es lento. a los que todavÍa viven en las ruinas, le queda la esperanza de algÚn dÍa mudarse a una vivienda digna. el viernes, para el final de impacto, el osito hambriento en colorado, hacia de las suyas, en la parte trasera de un restaurante arrastrÓ el contenedor de basura para disfrutar de restos de comida que estaban adentro, se dio tremendo banquete, al dÍa siguiente volviÓ para hacer lo mismo. un osito muy inteligente llegamos al final en este social, a disfrutar del fin de semana, nos vemos e