Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation 

Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation 

Nicaragua’s case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports.
“The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly, but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather than ideological bias.”

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Nicaraguan opposition NGOs and media on the US government payroll

The U.S. Has Venezuela in Its Crosshairs

Vijay Prashad, Independent Media Institute, January 17, 2019.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses international observers at the presidential palace in Caracas. (AP)

Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.”

These two terms—oligarchy and imperialism—define the problems faced by Maduro’s new government.

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