Fill in the Blanks TeachNicaLesson7Online version TeachNicaLesson7 by pamela lam 1 possible spectrum exemplary called terminate compel launched destroyed creating radical boasted ruins Back in 1981 , a State Department insider that we would " turn Nicaragua into the Albania of Central America " - that is , poor , isolated and politically - so that the Sandinistas' dream of a new , more political model for Latin America would be in . George Shultz the Sandinistas a " cancer , right here on our land mass , " that has to be . At the other end of the political , leading Senate liberal Alan Cranston said that if it turned out not to be to destroy the Sandinistas , then we'd just have to let them " fester in [ their ] own juices . " So the US a three - fold attack against Nicaragua . First , we exerted extreme pressure to the World Bank and Inter - American Development Bank to all projects and assistance .