Proverbs 26-11

11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

In 1961, a group of Lenninist revolutionaries decided to take advantage of the chaos created by an incompetent series of military dictators in Nicaragua.  They set up a Marxist group known as El Frente Sandanista de Liberacion Nacional.  They were predictably inspired by pedophile, mass-murdering, market icon Che Guevara and decided to do something original like set up “a political-military organization whose objective is the seizure of political power through the destruction of the bureaucratic and military apparatus of [Somoza’s] dictatorship.”  This because it worked so well for The CCCP under Stalin.

People who play stupid games win stupid prizes.  The Sandanistas successfully took over in Nicaragua and received $99M in aid from Jimmy Carter.  The US won the stupid prize of another government in the South American region that hated our guts.  The Sandanistas moved to spread their rebellion to El Salvador.  By 1981, the US, under Ronald Reagan came to believe their $99M in good will money was a dead weight loss. 

Meanwhile, Nicaraguan Strong Man Daniel Ortega did for the people of Nicaragua what people's democracies always seem to do for the people.  The weight loss results from the typical productivity we associate with Socialist agriculture were palpable.  A group of revolutionaries known as the Contras took up arms against on behalf of the people against the people's democracy.  The US support for The Contras became a degenerate, screwed-up mess that nearly got Ronald Reagan impeached.  Finally, in 1990; after many years of stupid, the people actually got to vote on whether they wanted Ortega's People's Democracy.  They did not.  Ortega was temporarily exorcised. 

In 2007, Daniel Ortega returned.  He campaigned as a nicer, pink-not-red version of his lovable self.  He won.  The people actually wanted this guy back.  The dog had returned to his vomit.  Within two years, he reached out to his ideological soulmate Hugo Chavez.  By 2011, he was modifying Nicaragua's constitution to be more "Progressive" and allow him to stay in power some more.  He also formed an unholy alliance with crony-capitalists who couldn't care less how socialist Ortega acted as long as they could still keep their swag. 

Business leaders gave him a free hand in politics, which he used to take control of independent institutions, subvert opposition parties and rig subsequent elections. In return, Mr Ortega adopted business-friendly policies. That led to economic growth of better than 4% a year on average from 2007 to 2017; inflows of foreign investment more than trebled over that period.

This, however, is no longer working out as planned.  Like many democrat blowhards who blow hard with the rhetoric about freedom, Daniel Ortega doesn't seem to support certain choices as much as others when it comes to exercises in Democracy.  Hence, the suffering Nicaraguans are again asking a US President to bail out their boats.

Human rights organizations in Washington and Nicaragua are documenting allegations of human rights violations following the deaths of at least 113 people protesting the Daniel Ortega regime in the political uprising that began two months ago, according to sources familiar with the investigations.  A group of Nicaraguan college students traveled to Washington this week to ask for assistance from President Trump and Congress in toppling the regime.

I don't favor this course of action.  We already got rid of Daniel Ortega once for these idiots.  They invited him back.  They knew he was a scorpion when they gave him a ride.  You can't name a Communist who doesn't turn violent against his democratic opposition.  You don't make it to the top of anyone's politburo by shaking hands and playing by Marquis de Queensbury Rules.  Let Nicaragua become another Venezuela.  Let the rest of the world see this place and burn with an ardent desire not to be them.  We've done Iran-Contra before.  It was an utter turd show.  The Nicaraguan People asked for Ortega, they got Ortega and perhaps they deserve to die from Ortega.  Donald Trump has no business whatsoever saving idiots from flunking Life's IQ Test.