Nicaragua Archives - Page 6 of 8

23Aug

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Nicaragua

A Specter of Peace Is Haunting Nicaragua

NOVANEWS Nicaragua and its allies represent a breathing space in a world dominated by the US empire. A protester wears a mask to hide his identity, in front a defaced billboard of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo, outside the Agrarian University in Managua, Nicaragua. Pro-government billboards have become targets for protesters. Esteban Felix | AP By Roger D. Harris After four months of violence, peace may be breaking out in Nicaragua, which has gotten those North American partisans opposed to Nicaraguan President Ortega worried. But they have one last hope. The latest in a series of anti-Ortega articles in The Nation is entitled “An eternal night of persecution and death.” We are told: “Despite mass killings an...

20Aug

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Nicaragua, USA

REMEMBERING IRAN CONTRA

NOVANEWS OLIVER NORTH: “I DON’T THINK IT WAS WRONG, I THINK IT WAS A NEAT IDEA” ARROGANCE ON PARADE On this day in 1985, the Red, White and Blue administration of Ronald Reagan illegally arranged for 96 anti-tank missiles to be sent to Iran. What was Iran Contra? For starters, it was high treason. What happened? The US illegally sold arms to Iran and then used the profits to illegally fund terrorists in Nicaragua in an attempt to undermine the government of that country. And they traded guns for drugs too (though that part was left out of mainstream news reporting.) The Arkansas branch of this criminal enterprise (Mena) put Bill Clinton on the map. Note what fantastic and arrogant liars Oliver North and company are. The short version:

6Aug

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Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela

The Balkanization of South America

NOVANEWS The Role of "Fifth Columns" Throughout the World By; Peter Koenig During the recent meeting in Caracas of the Venezuelan Presidential Economic Advisory Commission, in mid-June 2018, President Madurosaid something extremely interesting, but also extremely disturbing – nonetheless highly important for the region to be aware of. Mr. Maduro mentioned Yugoslavia, the foreign induced local conflicts, the breakup and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, starting with the “Ten Days War” on Slovenia in 1991, the Croatian War (1991-95); the Bosnia War (1992-95); the Kosovo War (1998-99), culminating with the Clinton induced 69-day NATO bombing of Kosovo, under then European NATO leader Wesley Clark (today the Repentant – in retrospect it’s easy to be sorry), pretending to save the Koso...

4Aug

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Nicaragua

U.S. Foments Regime Change in Nicaragua

NOVANEWS By Roger Harris TruePublica Note to readers: please click the share buttons above The US has targeted Nicaragua for regime change. Some former supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista party echo the US talking points: Ortega’s “entire government has been, in essence, neoliberal. Then it becomes authoritarian, repressive.” One would think that a neoliberal regime, especially if it were authoritarian and repressive, would be just the ticket to curry favour with Washington. ‘Threat of a Good Example’ In Noam Chomsky’s words, Nicaragua poses a threat of a good example to the US empire. Since Ortega’s return election victory in 2006, Nicaragua had achieved the following, according to NSCAG, despite being the second poorest country in the hemisph...

2Aug

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Nicaragua, USA

How Washington Manipulated Nicaragua’s Death Toll to Drive Regime Change

NOVANEWS A protester wears a mask to hide his identity, in front a defaced billboard of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo, outside the Agrarian University in Managua, Nicaragua. Pro-government billboards have become targets for protesters. Esteban Felix | AP Did Nicaragua’s Sandinista government really kill 300+ peaceful protesters? A forensic analysis of the death toll exposes the claim as a dangerous lie. By Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone Project Adetailed study of the death toll that has been recorded in Nicaragua since a violent campaign to remove President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government shows that at least as many Sandinista supporters were killed as opposition members. The study, “Monopolizing D...

29Jul

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Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine Affairs, Venezuela

Why Did Latin America Stop Standing up for Palestine?

NOVANEWS CECILIA BAEZA (L-r) Sara Netanyahu and her husband, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, applaud as Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and his wife, Hilda Patricia Marroquin, open the Guatemalan Embassy in Jerusalem, May 16, 2018. Guatemala became the first country to follow in the footsteps of the United States’ deeply controversial move, breaking with decades of international consensus. (RONEN ZVULUN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 44-45 Special Report By Cecilia Baeza WHILE MOST OF THE WORLD rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to move the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, some Latin American leaders have supported it enthusiastically. This may come as a surprise to many;...

28Jul

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Nicaragua, Venezuela

Nicaragua, Venezuela: One Enemy, One Fight For Democracy

NOVANEWS Tortilla Con Sal looks at some of the similarities between the violent street protests in Nicaragua and those seen in Venezuela in 2014/2017. By Tortilla con Sal - Telesur English All the signs are that – just as in Venezuela – people at the grassroots level in Nicaragua won't get fooled again. (Reuters) Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are all targets of the U.S. government because they challenge control of Latin America and the Caribbean by Western corporate elites and their local allies. By means of soft coups these interests have – at least for now – taken power in Brazil and Argentina, hijacked the government in Ecuador and derailed the peace process in Colombia. Currently, U.S. efforts at regime change focus most urgently on Venezuela and Nic...

25Jul

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Media, Nicaragua, United Kingdom

An Open Letter to the Guardian on Its Wildly Inaccurate Coverage of Nicaragua

NOVANEWS The Guardian’s editor-in-chief received the following letter but has refused to publish it, even in shorter form. A masked protester walks along a main avenue, littered with debris, in Managua, Nicaragua, April 20, 2018. AP | Alfredo Zuniga By Grayzone Project For the past three months, there has been a political crisis in Nicaragua, with opposing forces not only confronting each other in the streets but fighting a media war. The Guardian should be at the forefront of balanced and well-informed reporting of these events. Instead, despite plentiful evidence of opposition violence, almost all your 17 reports since mid-April blame Daniel Ortega’s government for the majority of deaths that have occurred. One of your most recent articles (“The Nicaraguan students who bec...

24Jul

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua Defeats The Not-So-Soft Coup

NOVANEWS By: Tortilla Con Sal July 19 will be a categorical vindication of President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista government's efforts for peace in Nicaragua. | Photo: Reuters July 19 will be a massive celebration of the coup's defeat and a categorical vindication of President Daniel Ortega's Sandinista government's efforts for peace in Nicaragua. On July 19, hundreds of thousands of people from across Nicaragua will converge on the capital Managua to celebrate the 39th anniversary of their historic 1979 defeat of the Somoza dictatorship. The event takes place as the authorities continue to liberate communities blockaded by roadblocks operated by armed opposition activists whose not-so-soft coup attempt against the Sandinista government, begun on April 18, has failed....

24Jul

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Nicaragua

In Nicaragua the Month of July Is Sandinista

NOVANEWS By: Luis Varese July 19th is the 39th anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution. | Photo: Reuters FILE Up until April, Nicaragua was the most peaceful country in Central America. "We were in the opposition for 17 years and we never even thought about burning the houses of the liberals," Daniel Ortega, Constitutional President of Nicaragua, said in a speech during the Masaya "Repliegue" (the retreat to Masaya city). RELATED: Nicaragua Defeats The Not-So-Soft Coup In the book "From Dictatorship to Democracy," Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official Gene Sharp set up a manual that in its fifth phase indicates the breaking of institutionality and the development of a beachhead from where a country could be infiltrated with "multination...