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

  • 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