A free Costa Rica and a free Nicaragua can live side by side. but a Communist Nicaragua will in the long run have to eat up Costa Rica. for the very same reason that the East Germans have built a Berlin Wall. because a Communist dictatorship cannot survive living next to a free country. because every person who can leave will leave the country. We have already seen that. There are 300.000 refugees in Honduras. there are 100.000 refugees in Costa Rica. and the Communist dictatorship makes it impossible for those refugees to go home. Indeed recently when the freedom fighters freed in Costa Rica 80 Sandinistas. 60 of them refused to go back to Nicaragua. 60 out of the 80 said. "I do not want to return to a Communist dictatorship." So I draw the first distinction. Our leftwing Democratic friends in the United States who go down to Nicaragua and coach Ortega on how to survive are in fact making probable the very war that Arias is warning about.
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