John Pilger's 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its
right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In
1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an
end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based
their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement,
but proved too 'radical' for the Reagan administration. In this film,
Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their "threat
of a good example".
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