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