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This is horrible. Now they are talking of civil war in Nicaragua. Not even the churches are respected. Horrible, horrible!
This beautiful Brazilian woman that was studying at a university in Nicaragua has been killed in the protests. She was just 29 years old and was killed when she was on her way home. So sad.
It’s only an acceptable election when a particular idiology wins the election. Everything else is a fixed election and not the will of the people.
Imagine if Democrats or Republicans here started killing people and seceding towns demanding that the president resigns.... how many would defend that?
Let Nicaraguans fix their own problems. It’s not our business now, like it it was not our business in the 1980’s, 1930’s or 1910’s.
In other news the stock price of Banana Republic just went up.
The security situation in Nicaragua has reached worrisome proportions created and sustained by the socialist government of Daniel Ortega. Horrible!
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They ride in the back of Toyota double-cabin pickup trucks, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. No one knows their identities. They always wear black ski masks or hoods.
The gunmen between 1,000 and 1,500 of them, according to some estimates are part of a recently formed paramilitary force protecting the continued rule of President Daniel Ortega against a three-month-old civilian uprising. Their main tactic is terror. They conduct roundups, fire at protesters, carry out dark-of-night raids and menace the population.
The Pro-Human Rights Association of Nicaragua said Thursday that paramilitary forces have conducted 595 "kidnappings" and disappearances of citizens since the uprising began April 18. The group said it has tallied 97 killings since July 11.
"Today in Nicaragua, there exists an undeclared state of siege," Alvaro Leiva, executive director of the rights group, said at a news conference.
"People go home at 5 or 6 and they don't leave at night out of fear," said Lucy Valenti, president of the Nicaraguan National Chamber of Tourism, a trade group.
"They don't answer to anyone," Ramirez said. "It is as if in the United States the Ku Klux Klan would appear carrying weapons and doing roundups, and the police were protecting the actions of the Ku Klux Klan."
"People who offer provisions are being hunted. People who go to the marches are being hunted. Those who have lent their homes as safe houses are being hunted. They are on a constant witch hunt," Aleman said in taped responses sent to a reporter from a secret location.
Aleman said he wasn't personally afraid but "I am very worried about my family."
If the Nicaraguans don’t like their leader, it’s their job to take their leader down. Not the US, not the UN. We in the US have our own problems, so save us your Somoza propaganda.
If you worry so much about human rights around the world how come you never post about the atrocities South Arabia does to its own people? How about the union leaders and community leaders that get killed in Colombia on a daily basis? Let me guess...it doesn’t fit your right-wing agenda.
One of Spain's leading newspapers, El PaÃs, has a photojournalistic special on the pro-democracy and pro-capitalism revolution taking place in Nicaragua.
There is no "pro capitalist anti socialist" protest in Nicaragua. People don't like Ortega, they are against him but many (if not most) Nicaraguans are still Sandinistas at heart. He has been in power to long, its time for him to go.
There is no "pro capitalist anti socialist" protest in Nicaragua. People don't like Ortega, they are against him but many (if not most) Nicaraguans are still Sandinistas at heart. He has been in power to long, its time for him to go.
Then they need to take him out but stop the propaganda overseas. No one cares except for some right wing Cuban exiles in Miami who have done nothing in 60 years to fix their own nation. The US is not Latin America’s daddy. In fact the US has never been very nice to the region. Fix your own darn problems nicas.
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