UN General Assembly
1983

106. The triumph of the Nicaraguan revolution was but the result of this long struggle against American domination, a struggle which began in 1855 against Walker and which culminated on 19 July 1979 with the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza. Our revolution triumphed over this unjust United States policy, and while it is true that in the months immediately following that victory the possibility of new relations with the United States was opened, the entry into office of the new Administration in 1981 cut short this effort. Once more it was the policy of the "big stick", the policy of gunboats, the policy of terror. 107. We could say that from that moment on, from January 1981, the new United States Administration had declared war on the people of Nicaragua. The strategy was clear: military aggression, more economic aggression, more slander campaigns, more attempts to isolate us internationally, all with the goal of destabilizing the Nicaraguan revolution in order to bring about its destruction.