(Possibly a fundraiser for renovations for the building). This is supposedly Sandinista territory and there are monuments and hospitals and things dedicated to the revolution.
Watching people dance and clap and smile while listening to the latest dance music with the Sandinista flag waving crazily behind them, I can't help but wonder what everyone was so afraid of...
Communism!!!
Schools and hospitals and taking care of people.
The redistribution of land? Taking land from those who own regions... The Dons entrusted to rule over dozens of villages like feudal lords. The U.S. Once said that any reservation land that wasn't being currently farmed by Native Americans had to be redistributed and sold (under valued) to poor homesteaders, but when communists propose the same its time for war.
Did they think they would take away their freedom? What freedom?
The freedom to buy what they couldn't afford? The freedom to read and write and speak - though kept intentionally illiterate? The freedom of religion? Do you think these people would give it up when the spanish couldn't even stamp it out/replace it entirely, the center of people's lives, the place next to the schools and markets the other place of people's lives...
They smile and dance and cheer each other on... The commies.
What were we so afraid of that we had to arm and murder and take away all those smiles?
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