Nicaraguan government denounces destabilizing actions against Venezuela

from TeleSur English

The Nicaraguan government denounced this Monday to the international community the destabilizing actions against the Venezuelan nation.

We denounce to the world that the people of Bolivar, Chavez, Nicolas, who has resisted and defeated all attempts to humiliate and destroy their rights, by winning once again in these elections, he has defeated the Empires and their impertinence, and is already facing a new attempt of Coup d’état», said the statement that was initialled by President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo.

The European Commission has also «in the pride and permanent zeal for domination and plunder of our Peoples and our Resources, (…) to continue exercising all forms of hatred against that Admirable Venezuela, of Great Battles and Endless Victories».

The government of the Central American country assured that «fascism that today again intends to be rampant in Venezuelan lands, of course it will not pass»...

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Nicaragua closes embassy in Berlin after suing Germany over Gaza genocide

from Press TV

Nicaragua has shut down its embassy in Germany after taking the West European country to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for facilitating Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Nicaragua announced the closure of its diplomatic mission in Berlin on Wednesday, noting that the Central American state’s consular tasks and official businesses in Germany will now be handled by the embassy in Austria.

Managua recently announced the accreditation of its ambassador in Vienna, Sabra Amari Murillo Centeno, as a concurrent representative in Germany.

Earlier this week, hearings opened in the ICJ, with Nicaragua saying Germany is violating the 1948 Genocide Convention by providing Israel with military and financial aid, as well as suspending funding to the main UN humanitarian agency in Gaza, UNRWA.

Asking The Hague-based court to issue emergency orders, Nicaragua said Germany's arms sales to the Tel Aviv regime make it complicit in the Gaza war crimes...

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John Pilger RIP - Nicaragua and the Contras

 from Max Blumenthal

'John Pilger's documentaries are historically significant exposés of the cruelty and connivances of US empire, in which he gave voice to resistance movements still struggling for their sovereignty. Films like his 1983 "Nicaragua, a nation's right to survive" inspired my own work, as did the messages of encouragement and insights he sent me and my colleagues. Unlike so many of his contemporaries who fell into a fog of liberalism late in life, Pilger's critiques of empire only sharpened with time. Sadly, he left us today. But his body of work will only grow more relevant in the cataclysmic years ahead.'

Today's News: 187 Minutes, 58% Know Our Elections are Rigged and Nicaraguan Regime Change

It's ridiculous. For 187 minutes they claim the then president was derelict in his duty on 1/6 while capitol police stood around waving tourists thru the velvet rope rebellion. A study shows 58% of Americans know our elections are a sham. And of course, we accuse countries like Nicaragua of doing what we do ourselves. Just another day in the land of the Big PX.

Original Sin: Julian Assange and Mother Teresa Raping Nicaragua

 

As cameras rolled, 18 nuns from the Sisters of Charity, Mother Teresa's NGO, took those last few steps in Nicaragua toward the Costa Rica border. The story is that they had been kicked out of the country due to Daniel Ortega's paranoia. Turns out, that is not the case. Not really anyway. Danny has good reason to be concerned. Today I am joined by Aunt BB who is on her own Death March on the way to that beautiful nation in the little time she has been granted by the WEF's puppet in Canada.

 

Dark Alliance Thwarted: FSLN and Ortega WIN

 

Stability achieved in Nicaragua just not the type our 'national interests' wanted.

Every Single Member of US Congress Approved Crushing Sanctions on Nicaragua

by Ben Norton from Mint Press

Every single member in both chambers of the US Congress approved legislation that will impose sanctions and financial restrictions on Nicaragua in an explicit effort to weaken its government.

Known as the NICA Act, the bill is now on its way to the desk of President Donald Trump, who will almost certainly sign it into law. Its passage was spearheaded by neoconservative lawmakers centered around the Miami lobby of right-wing Latin American exiles dedicated to eradicating any iteration of socialism in the Western hemisphere.

The United States has spent decades trying to topple Nicaragua’s government, now led by the left-wing Sandinista movement. In April, US-backed opposition figures launched an unsuccessful and exceedingly violent coup attempt in the Central American country — one of the last bastions of leftist politics in an increasingly right-leaning Latin America.

The newly approved Nicaraguan Investment and Conditionality Act(NICA) will give the US president the authority to impose targeted sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials, former officials, or people purportedly “acting on behalf of” Managua.

The bill also seeks to prevent international financial institutions from providing “any loan or financial or technical assistance” to Nicaragua’s government.

The NICA Act enjoyed bipartisan support, but the campaign behind it was largely led by neoconservative Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with help from Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Ros-Lehtinen and Cruz met for a Facebook live this December 13 to celebrate the bill’s passage.

In June, these three right-wing Cuban-American lawmakers gathered with young leaders of the Nicaraguan opposition in Washington, DC...

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How an American Anthropologist Tied to US Regime-Change Proxies Became the MSM’s Man in Nicaragua

from Mint Press News

The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC and NPR have assigned an American anthropologist with no previous journalistic experience to cover the crisis in Nicaragua. The novice reporter, named Carl David Goette-Luciak, has published pieces littered with falsehoods that reinforce the opposition’s narrative promoting regime change while relying almost entirely on anti-Sandinista sources.
 
An investigation for MintPress reveals that Goette-Luciak has forged intimate ties to the opposition, and has essentially functioned as its publicist under journalistic cover. Having claimed to work in the past as an anthropologist and “human rights defender,” Goette-Luciak operated side-by-side with activists from a U.S.-backed opposition party known as the Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS. As we will see in this investigation, U.S. government-funded organizations have supplied the MRS with millions of dollars worth of election assistance, and continue to fund its activists by funding their NGO’s and social media training.

Goette-Luciak now lists himself as “director of investigations” for an obscure outlet called Radio Ciudadana that was founded a month before the chaos erupted last April. That outlet’s founder, Azucena “Chena” Castillo, is an outspoken member of the MRS party who has devoted herself to the government’s overthrow. Goette-Luciak’s social-media profile reveals intimate ties to numerous MRS leaders and, in a recently deleted podcast interview, he has described his own work to encourage indigenous opposition to the Sandinista front...

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Nicaragua●A Nation's Right To Survive (John Pilger documentary from 1983)

Nicaragua's Success Threatens US Stranglehold on Latin America

from TeleSUR

 The United States' economic and geopolitical stranglehold on Latin America is threatened and they are running scared to put Nicaragua on the Security Council's agenda, pass the repressive NICA Act and covertly fund mass disinformation campaigns and demonstrations, replete with mortar-wielding mercenaries, against the legitimate government of sovereign Nicaragua – a peaceful country the approximate size of New York State.


Washington's bureaucrats not only fear favorable reports being released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on the successful economic and social policies instituted by President Ortega because they undermine their disinformation campaigns to slander and discredit him, but even more importantly, because Nicaragua's achievements inspire other developing countries. According to the IMF and World Bank reports, Nicaragua has sustained growth in GDP, improved its social indicators, expanded tourism, and provided regional leadership in public safety and sustainable energy. As such, the United States is in a race against time to undermine President Ortega before a tsunami of developing countries wanting success through his model of autonomy topples all its remaining puppet dictatorships.
 
Historically, the U.S. government justified imperial invasion and occupation by claiming its targeted country was 'communist.' Now that the spurious threat of communism has been largely debunked, the latest buzzword used to justify imperial aggression by the United States, when it's not throwing around the word 'terrorism,' is 'democracy.' In doing this, the United States effectively lowered its justification bar further, because democracy is a nebulous concept at best. The United States conceals its imperialist aggression under the pretense of being the world's democracy 'policeman' when in fact it is just the opposite. The United States functions as the world's democracy criminal, overthrowing legitimate governments of sovereign nations to allow its puppet master transnational corporations to unabashedly steal without interference...

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