Tag: Nicaragua: Regime Change?

NOVANEWS The pattern is similar to events in Libya, Syria and Venezuela, where extreme right-wing political minorities conspired with foreign elites to overthrow the national status quo. By Tortilla Con Sal teleSUR Events in Nicaragua over the past week are clearly modeled on the kind of U.S.-led, NATO-driven regime change that succeeded in Libya, Ivory Coast and Ukraine, but has so far failed in Thailand, Syria and Venezuela. At a national level, the protests have been led by the private sector business classes defending their rate of profit against socialist policies in defense of low-income workers and people on pensions. The Events So Far Since April 18, violent protests have taken place across Nicaragua. The protests began a couple of days after the government announced pr...