Abstract
In the last several years a great deal of attention has been focused on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and on the forces which are attempting to topple it. This attention has focused almost exclusively on the disintegration of the Contra political leadership and most recently on the U.S. Iran-Contra affair, however. Surprisingly little systematic effort has been directed toward an assessment of the morality of the original resort to violence by either the Contras generally or by the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDR), the largest of the groups which compose the movement. In order to assess whether the FDN's resort to war (the jus ad bellum issue) in 1981 and 1982 was moral or not, the author derives seven criteria from the Just War tradition and reviews the historical development of the FDN accordingly. The conclusion is that under these criteria the FDN was wrong to resort to war against the people and government of Nicaragua.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callMore From: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
