Tag: Daniel Ortega

Nicaragua – Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Just as in 2018, Nicaragua is once again the subject of the kind of mass international bad faith news coverage and perception management more usually associated recently with US and allied government offensives against Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. In Nicaragua’s case the current offensive is aimed at influencing the country’s elections scheduled for next November 7th. Currently, all the opinion polls show that, should President Daniel Ortega stand again for election, he and his FSLN party will win easily with over 60% support against around 20% for the the country’s right wing opposition.

Nicaragua – Varieties of Neocolonial Solidarity

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Nicaragua’s opposition advocating US intervention

Partial list of US government funding to opposition organizations for the period 2017-2018 (Source).

Why Isn’t U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Working?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

After the U.S.-Russian summit in June, there was no apparent irony in President Biden’s response to a question about electoral interference. “Let’s get this straight,” he said. “How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?” But of course much of the world does take this view; by one count the United States has intervened in no fewer than 81 elections between 1946 and 2000, many of them in Latin America. Biden’s question reveals a fundamental gap in U.S. foreign policymaking: Why do its leaders appear unable to judge how U.S. actions are seen by ordinary people in the countries they affect?

Why Isn’t U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Working?

Support the Tropes

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Support the Tropes

If well-paid US columnists start becoming preoccupied with human rights in your country, it is a pretty good sign that you are about to get bombed. It is also remarkable how quickly those same pundits will lose their acute interest in human rights in a nation after a US intervention. Therefore, the next time you hear freedom, human rights and democracy in another country being endlessly discussed, be on your guard for ulterior motives; these cold-blooded media figures may just be crying crocodile tears in the service of empire.

Free-dumb and Demon-ocracy!

To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup

Brutal dictators supported by Washington have no reason to doubt that establishment journalists and big NGOs will try very hard to keep them out of jail. Removing the threat of US -backed coups from the world will involve a constant struggle against Western media and the sources they present to us as reliable.