Report

DIFFERENCES

Social consequences:
Salvador: Mutilation, disappearances

Nicaragua: The repression intensified in his fourth term, ordering the closure of several
NGOs,
universities, and non-related newspapers

Political consequences:
Salvador: The guerrilla being replaced by gangs, division of society

Nicaragua:Ortega altered the electoral law allowing him to win an election in the
first round with just 35 percent of the vote something unprecedented in Latin
America, and he also changed the constitution to allow him to continue to be re
elected ever since 2007. His second administration became increasingly antidemocratic, alienating
many of his former revolutionary allies

Economic consequences:
Salvador: Total cost of the damages being 98mil dollars, Airforce being destroyed,
Important bridges,the Cuscatlan and the gold bridge being also destroyed.

Nicaragua:The Sandinistas inherited a country in ruins with a debt of 1.6 billion dollars.The
Reagan administration imposed an economic ‘embargo’ and closed the door to Nicaraguan imports.

Bonus:
Salvador: The military killed people in the villages

Nicaragua: in less than six years Aleman became a multimillionaire. He was tried and
sentenced to 20 years in prison for swindling millions of dollars from the state. Ortega used his
influence in the courts to get him out of jail and later to have them acquitted at a price
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Social consequences: A lot of humans rights were violated, including the massive rape,
tourture and murder.

Political consequences: Migration out of their countries, political instability.

Economic consequences: A devastated economic infrastructure, Poverty, increment of

unemployment.

Bonus: The military took children against their will from school or their houses to fight in the war.