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The Role Of The Sandista Government In Nicaragua

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After the Sandista government overthrew the Samoza regime the economy was left in debt. The Sandista government had to pay off the debt created by the Samoza government and as well live with the destruction of an earthquake that occurred. The country was lacking health supplies, while having increasing diseases like polio and measles. Nicaragua owed “$1.6 billion to the United States and the World Bank (Utting, 1992)”. The earthquake occurred the capital of Nicaragua named Managua. During the 1980’s many people lived in extreme poverty due to the government. Many people were forced to steal from pharmacies, the poor had to steal medicine in order to take care of the sick. An article calls this the “extreme class division” (Schroedar, 2005).
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