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During the 20th century, the people of Cuba and Nicaragua experienced declining living standards—lower wages, higher costs of living, and corrupt governments that did not look out for their well being. In both countries, radical left-wing revolutionaries who opposed these corrupt governments emerged. The difference between the two revolutions is the degree of support each one had. In both countries, revolutionaries had the support of the masses as well as the United States, to a degree; Castro, however, not only possessed few resources but also eventually lost the support of the United States as well as its disintegrating ally, the Soviet Union, while the Sandinistas possessed a variety of resources as well as allies in the United States and the Catholic Church.