Did the u, s. support the nicaraguan revolution?

He argued that the United States initially provided substantial economic assistance to the Sandinista-dominated regime. We played a decisive role in the OAS action that delegitimised the Somoza regime and laid the foundations for the formation of the new junta. In the current crisis, these forces are requested by the Nicaraguan government, which protests to the United States for its inability to protect these interests and declares that any measure that the United States deems appropriate for their protection will be satisfactory to the Nicaraguan government. In this video from 1978, presenter Jim Lehrer pressures a commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard to deal with allegations of human rights abuses by the Nicaraguan military.