The Ortega Free Trade Fear Factor
July 26, 2005
From an article by Sarah Anderson on Common Dreams:
Unable to sell CAFTA on its merits, desperate Republican supporters have had to resort to the fear factor. Their reasoning appears to be that if you can get Americans jittery enough, they will support pretty much any darn thing.
But since Osama bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the hills of Tora Bora instead of the highlands of Guatemala, Republican free traders have had to strain to conjure up an effective monster. The best they could do was Daniel Ortega. Remember him? He's the former Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter-turned-politician who was voted out of office 15 years ago.