Stella Calloni Original in Spanish If the most serious opposition to President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua does not set itself apart from the mercenaries who continue to commit atrocious crimes against dozens of Sandinistas for their simply supporting the government, including torture and public flogging (videos recorded by professional journalists), and if they fail to…
Category: IMPERIALISM
With Cynical Theater Nicaragua’s Opposition Erase Their Crimes to Facilitate US Intervention
Tortilla con Sal, July 15th 2018 Events in Nicaragua over this weekend of July 13th-15th show how refined the techniques of psychological warfare have become with the political opposition here using social media to create events that never happened and erase their own criminal terrorist attacks. The crisis in Nicaragua began with a fake “student…
Nicaragua: We Can Assume Almost Anything . . .
Barbara Moore We can assume almost anything . . . Let’s assume that what is generally referred to as ‘the opposition’ can still be called the ‘student-led’ opposition. Let’s assume that on April 18th the students were misinformed on the Ortega solution to the Social Security shortfall as that is the easiest way to explain…
Atrocities Committed by the Nicaraguan Right in the Name of “Democracy”, Supported by the IACHR
July is a month of victories for these lands of lakes and volcanoes and as on July 19 the fall of the Somoza dictatorship, 39 years later the people proclaim, along with Daniel Ortega, the failure of the right-wing coup. ZonaFrank Translated by Internationalist 360° On the morning of July 11, the second special meeting…
Correcting the Record: What is Really Happening in Nicaragua?
Kevin Zeese, Nils McCune There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of CNN and Nicaragua’s oligarchic media to support the removal of President Ortega. The narrative of nonviolent protesters versus anti-riot squads and pro-government paramilitaries has…
Salvadorans Protest Renewed Attempts To Privatize Water Resources
Pedro Cabezas, Inequality.org Anti-privatization organizers demand the government recognize that water is a right, not a commodity. Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing-dominated legislature took office in El Salvador, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students protesting the potential privatization of water already paint a…
