I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.