Manu Pineda
Translated by Internationalist 360°
With a former director of the CIA now in charge of US foreign policy, the United States continues to consider Latin America its backyard, and their impudence is such that Tillerson, former Secretary of State, said at a conference at the University of Texas: “Latin America does not need new imperial powers.” Undoubtedly, he believes that the Yankee imperial power is enough.
According to Gregorio Selser, the United States has invaded Nicaragua countless times; It has illegally and immorally financed a counter-revolution: there are the judgments of the US courts and, as a corollary, a ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which declares Washington guilty for blocking ports and financing a bloody war to sabotage the Sandinista government of the eighties. Because the interests and geopolitical plans of the United States are ambitious and criminal, without respect for peoples and international law, today, yet again, they create a plot with a script that repeats itself in all Latin American countries with progressive presidents.
In the last decade, Washington and its local agents have carried out soft coups in Honduras, Brazil and Paraguay; they have tried, without success, to break the constitutional order in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela; and they have always done this to countries with presidents of the left.
They use two different scripts:
- In countries where they have a lot of influence in the military institutions, the parliament together with the judicial power, has defenestrated the president.
- In countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua, where the empire collides with dignified armed forces and state institutions with a high national awareness, they organize destabilizing and very violent protests.
Imperialism has been mutating its coup and interventionist strategies, as has been seen in Syria, in Libya, in Ukraine, in Venezuela and, today, in Nicaragua.
It deploys manipulation and lies, which multiply through social networks. In the harassment of Nicaragua, they have used, with shamelessness cynicism, photos of corpses from Palestine, Honduras or Mexico, and attribute them to the government of Managua. In parallel, the mendacious propaganda machine of Washington denounces a supposed savage repression of the government on “groups of peaceful and unarmed protesters”, accusations later repeated by mercenary organizations, “defenders of human rights”, created ad hoc with the dirty money of the American secret services.
Accustomed to violence, sure of the complicity of the local bourgeoisies in Latin America, accomplished masters in the interference in other countries, applied sponsors of military governments that devastated the continent and sowed death everywhere, the North American government still does not acknowledge the sovereignty of their neighbors and seeks to impose their hegemony at any price.
The Nicaraguan government, which has not ceased to call on all Nicaraguan sectors to participate in dialogue, including violent and coup groups, advocates the mediation of sectors that are opposed to it, has accepted the entry of the IACHR (an organization dependent on the OAS, hostile to the Sandinista government), and has given in to international investigators proposed by the IACHR to clarify those responsible for all the deaths that occurred during the protests. For that reason, it is striking that, after that last agreement where impartiality in the investigations is guaranteed, the opponents withdrew from the dialogue table and called for a coup d’état.
It is evident that we are witnessing a new interference sponsored by the Trump government, a new “color revolution” aimed at justifying a wave of sanctions that targets a government that does not dance to the tune of Washington, and whose destabilization and consequent chaos in the streets of the country could justify a new “humanitarian intervention” aimed at overthrowing the government of Managua.
In the face of this alarming situation, it is urgent to raise our voices against this North American interference. The mobilization for peace, democracy and the sovereignty of the people is urgent. It is urgent that the workers and the political and social organizations of Spain and Europe mobilize for the sovereignty of the peoples, in this case, for a country small in size but a giant in terms of dignity. Nicaragua has won, with great sacrifice, the right to be a territory free of imperialist aggression, with no one intervening in its internal affairs; and it has the strength and dignity to find for itself the resolution of the crisis within the established democratic framework, and the legitimacy to freely choose its path of restoring peace.
