Completar Frases TeachNicaLesson7Versión en línea TeachNicaLesson7 por pamela lam 1 compel possible exemplary boasted spectrum terminate called radical destroyed ruins creating launched Back in 1981 , a State Department insider that we would " turn Nicaragua into the Albania of Central America " - that is , poor , isolated and politically - so that the Sandinistas' dream of a new , more political model for Latin America would be in . George Shultz the Sandinistas a " cancer , right here on our land mass , " that has to be . At the other end of the political , leading Senate liberal Alan Cranston said that if it turned out not to be to destroy the Sandinistas , then we'd just have to let them " fester in [ their ] own juices . " So the US a three - fold attack against Nicaragua . First , we exerted extreme pressure to the World Bank and Inter - American Development Bank to all projects and assistance .