Nicaragua Status Report

Jackson Diehl writes an interesting Washington Post article about the situation in Nicaragua, and the thuggish behavior of the Ortega government there. Diehl makes the interesting point that nobody in the U.S. State Department seems at all worried about Ortega's anti-democratic activities, activities that we have noted before on this blog.

It turns out the main vocal opponents of the regime are a group of leftist Latin American intellectuals. Diehl managed to elicit this off-the-record response from State Department 'sources:'

Nicaragua doesn't pose any particular threat to the United States. And the lambasting the caudillo (Ortega) is getting from his former comrades is probably more effective than anything the United States could say.

I'll bet the Ticos are very unhappy about this situation, for it will trigger even more "Nickies" to become illegal immigrants to Costa Rica.