re: Nicaragua, Honduras, Argentenia, and Chile...
It's kind of interesting to count up the Central American and South American nations, most currently democratic, that would be totalitarian Soviet puppets today if the Left had had its way over the past forty years. Cuba, written over and over again.
In almost every single conflict between the Soviet Empire and America in nations of the world over that period, the American Left consistently and sometimes even enthusiastically took the side of the communists.
To hear some leftists talk today, you'd think there never was such a thing as communism, but history doesn't get rewritten that easily.