Soviet and Cuban Policies towards Nicaragua: 1979-1989

Abstract

The article seeks to describe and explain the soviet and cuban policies towards Nicaragua from 1979 on. Cuba gave suport -mainly in human resources- to the nicaraguan revolution from the first moment. The main purpose of this support was the survivance of the revolution. The USSR on the contray showed first a weak interest in the Nicaraguan process, in the context of its general policies towards South America which is more pragmatic. Soviet policies expressed the USSR's interest in the global bipolar confrontation. From 1981 on, since the USA's pressure increased, a new age of relations began and there was an increasement in the USSR and CAME's support -specially economic- to Nicaragua.