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Nicaragua: War against the People

Ortega and Murillo will never leave power with good grace. The president still has a social base and is willing to see more bloodshed.

My learning began in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. A refugee camp in the jungles of Mexico, less than a mile from the Guatemalan border.

Rafael Rojas: Classifying peaceful dissenters as coup plotters, terrorists and traitors implies a limitation of political rights.

It is surprising that left-wing sectors in the region continue to almost religiously defend Otega and the current FSLN in Nicaragua.

Something broke in this latest onslaught, altering the path of events. Ortega has evidently opted for a de facto suspension of the elections.

Hate rallies are nothing new and have been used in Cuba as piecework and as a political weapon, especially since 1980.

The reason for the persecution is the quest of Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo to hold elections with no real opposition.

This week we draw about Ignacio Gimenez, the supposed Cuban-Spanish lawyer who announced he would unseat the Cuban government on June 4th.

This onslaught responds to the regime’s determination to remain in power at any cost, without democracy and free elections.

While Biden dithers about whether to keep his campaign promise to roll back Trump’s economic sanctions, people in Cuba are going hungry.