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🗓️ 14 April 2025
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How the United States got involved in a not-so-secret secret war in Nicaragua.
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1:04.6 | Now, on to the show. Two days before Christmas in 1972, the capital city of Nicaragua was destroyed by an earthquake. |
1:18.8 | When daylight finally came, you could still see smoke billowing over the city of Managua. |
1:23.9 | The crews shook themselves and began another long day of digging out and trying to clear the city and stop the fires. |
1:30.3 | Bulldozers combed the streets in search of bodies. |
1:33.3 | 90% of the city has been utterly destroyed. Even the few tall buildings which do remain will soon be brought down by dynamite. |
1:42.3 | Unofficial estimates of the dead are running as high as 5,000. |
1:47.0 | As the city burned, |
1:49.0 | Nicaragua's right-wing dictator, Anastasio Samosa, declared martial law. |
1:54.0 | The army is now in full command of the city and the country. |
1:57.8 | General Samosa is overflying the city in a U.S. helicopter. He will personally direct |
2:03.0 | the demolition operations to level the city. Samosa and his family had ruled over Nicaragua for |
2:09.1 | decades, always with the full backing of the United States. But in the aftermath of the earthquake, |
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