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Support for Nicaragua

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  • Fig. Ben Linder’s parents discussing the findings of their own investigation at a press conference - [Laprensani.com](https://www.laprensani.com/magazine/reportaje/la-muerte-benjamin-linder/)
  • Fig. Nicaraguans and foreigners protested Linder's death - [Laprensani.com](https://www.laprensani.com/magazine/reportaje/la-muerte-benjamin-linder/)

“We the mothers who suffer
the pain caused by the
war we unite with
the parents of
Benjamin.”

Reagan’s war on Nicaragua met fierce opposition in the United States. Throughout the 1980s, a majority of Americans opposed the U.S. intervention in the region, and as many as 100,000 U.S. citizens visited Nicaragua in support of the revolutionary government, including Benjamin Linder.

Rejecting their own government’s call to support the contras, American solidarity activists embraced the promise of the Nicaraguan revolution: self-determination, participatory democracy, and socio-economic transformation.