https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/world/americas/nicaragua-election-ortega.html

  • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Ortega actually did the bad things, don't defend the guy who corrupted and abandoned the Sandanista movement.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      if US media outlets are talking about him like this it's for one reason

      Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. (source)

      you can make wild claims about "gunning down protestors" all you want I've heard similar bullshit about every US official enemy and have no reason to credit yours

      • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        wild claims about “gunning down protestors”

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/nicaragua-amnesty-international-police-killings-daniel-ortega

        This is actually happening.

        if US media outlets are talking about him like this it’s for one reason

        if the US war machine or CIA topple machine gave a shit about Nicaragua, you'd see a shit ton more headlines. We've had mostly silence on the issue on the English speaking internet, compared to fake issues like Venezuela/Cuba/Iran/China.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          your evidence is a Guardian article sole-sourced from a western NGO?

          https://parstoday.com/en/radio/world-i99050-amnesty_international%E2%80%99s_troubling_collaboration_with_uk_us_intelligence

          • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            my spouse is a native Nicaraguan citizen who lived there during the shootings, yes

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              my spouse is a native citizen of Melmac and definitely not a bourgeois counterrevolutionary

              • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Defending a mass murdered who sold out the sandanistas a long time ago? :cringe:

                • emizeko [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  WaPo is writing hit pieces because they care deeply about the Nicaraguan people, I am an adult who consumes media critically!

                  • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    what the fuck are you talking about, my spouse told me about the events in real time before any articles were published

                    • emizeko [they/them]
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                      3 years ago

                      ok your anecdote has convinced me, time for America to fund some Nicaraguan death squads by running drugs to US inner cities and selling weapons to Iran. maybe mine the harbor of Managua again? let's put your spouse in charge of the US marine invasion force