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Lessons From Nicaragua

September 13, 2018 Staff, Tortillaconsal.com Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change

Apologists for the attempted coup in Nicaragua hemorrhage credibility with every week that passes. Both inside and outside Nicaragua, reality is fast catching up with their falsehoods and distortions. Last week, the New York Times revealed US government involvement in plans for a military coup in Venezuela, confirming long standing accusations by the Venezuelan authorities. The report demolishes the credibility of US government claims to support peaceful, democratic political change in Venezuela, Nicaragua or anywhere else in Latin America. Opposition apologists deny in vain President Ortega’s accusation of US government complicity in the extreme violence of their attempted coup in Nicaragua.

U.S.-Backed Violent Coups Are Not New Or Rare

August 30, 2018 By Lee Camp, Truthdig.com Educate! coup, History, Nicaragua, Regime Change, US Imperialism

Nicaragua just defeated a U.S.-backed violent coup attempt, and no one cares. Well, let me revise that: Very few care. English teachers may care because they may find it fascinating the phrase “violent coup” is one of the only English phrases often introduced with the prefix “U.S.-backed.” But I can tell you for certain the mainstream media don’t want you to care. They don’t even want you to know it happened. And they certainly don’t want you to know that it followed a simple formula for U.S.-backed coups in leftist and anti-imperialist nations throughout Latin America, a formula our military intelligence apparatus has implemented in numerous countries tirelessly, like an overused football play.

A Response To Misinformation On Nicaragua: It Was A Coup, Not A ‘Massacre’

August 16, 2018 Charles Redvers, Grayzoneproject.com Educate! coup, Nicaragua, Regime Change, US Imperialism

There is so much misinformation in mainstream corporate media about recent events in Nicaragua that it is a pity that Mary Ellsberg’s article for Pulse has added to it with a seemingly leftish critique. Ellsberg claims that recent articles, including from this website, often “paint a picture of the crisis in Nicaragua that is dangerously misleading.” Unfortunately, her own article does just that. It looks at the situation entirely from the perspective of those opposing Daniel Ortega’s government while whitewashing their malevolent behavior and downplaying the levels of US support they have relied on. Her piece is an incomplete depiction of what is happening on the ground, ignoring many salient facts that have come to light and which have been outdated by recent events.

Trade Union Leader Exposes What The Media Won’t About The Latest US-backed Coup Attempt In Latin America

August 11, 2018 Ed Sykes, Thecanary.co Educate! coup, Latin America, Media, Regime Change, US Imperialism

Nicaragua has been in the news recently because of what the country’s president has described as a “coup attempt” backed by Washington. But most international coverage of events has consistently failed to tell the whole story, showing heavy bias against the current Nicaraguan government. A number of academics, journalists and activists recently accused the Guardian, for example, of “wildly inaccurate coverage”. International organisations with strong links to Washington, meanwhile, have even boasted of “laying the groundwork for insurrection” against Nicaragua’s left-of-centre government. And they stand accused of manipulating the country’s recent death toll to justify a push for regime change and sanctions.

Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega To TeleSUR: ‘The Coup Was Defeated’

July 26, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, US Imperialism

In an exclusive interview, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has told teleSUR President Patricia Villegas: "The coup was defeated." Ortega says that the country has experienced extreme violence over the past several months at the hands of the "extreme right" of Nicaragua and U.S. elected officials who have always opposed the Sandinista revolution since it emerged in the 1980s. The president went on to say that the violence is the fruit of U.S. officials who are working with poor paramilitaries within the country who want to knock down the Sandinistas. Since protests broke out in mid-April to contest social security reforms, the country has been thrust into unprecedented socio-political turmoil that has left some 350 people killed, according to the NGO Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH). At least 2,100 have been injured, says the ANPDH.

After The Failed Coup, After All The Lies, Nicaragua Rebuilds

July 25, 2018 By Stephen Sefton, Tortillaconsal.com Create! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua

Nicaragua is entering a new political phase of reconstruction in multiple senses, now the US backed right wing coup attempt has failed. The country’s political opposition have suffered another catastrophic failure. After months of intimidation and insecurity, savage violence and economic blockade at the hands of the country’s extremist opposition, people in Nicaragua long for a return to peaceful social and economic life. Overseas, Western media and NGOs have confirmed their role as propaganda outlets for the US government and its allies. Media from the Guardian and the New York Times to the BBC and Al Jazeera as well as phony progressive media like Democracy Now have misrepresented the crisis as have human rights organizations like Amnesty International.

Nicaragua Defeats The Not-So-Soft Coup

July 18, 2018 Stephen Sefton, Telesurtv.net Create! coup, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Nicaragua

On July 19, hundreds of thousands of people from across Nicaragua will converge on the capital Managua to celebrate the 39th anniversary of their historic 1979 defeat of the Somoza dictatorship. The event takes place as the authorities continue to liberate communities blockaded by roadblocks operated by armed opposition activists whose not-so-soft coup attempt against the Sandinista government, begun on April 18, has failed. Ever since April 21, when President Daniel Ortega called for a process of National Dialogue to peacefully resolve opposition demands, Nicaragua's political opposition and their allies have worked to sabotage talks for a negotiated solution. They have regularly staged extremely violent provocations falsely seeking to portray the government as being wholly responsible for the crisis and demanding President Ortega's resignation.

Nine Years After US Supported Coup, End Injustice In Honduras

June 28, 2018 Staff, Alliance For Global Justice Educate! coup, Honduras, political prisoners

June 28, 2018, marks 9 years since the US-backed coup d’etat in Honduras: 9 years of increasing violence and impunity, poverty and inequity for the Honduran people who made clear once again their rejection of the coup regimen in the elections held on November 26, 2017 —- election results that were overturned by fraud and repression. The US government continues to support the Honduran regime politically and economically including millions of dollars of security/military aid that facilitates human rights violations. The Canadian government continues to support the extraction industry dominated by Canadian mining companies and other Canadian mega projects in tourism and energy industries. These projects are responsible for environmental and health damage as well as the violent repression and displacement of indigenous communities.

Nicaragua : Defeating The Soft Coup

June 16, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change

The government strategy has been to accept extraordinary levels of opposition violence and intimidation so as to allow the opposition to discredit themselves with public opinion. Nicaragua has been a good example of how Western corporate and alternative news media are able to create a custom-made bizarro-world to suit the propaganda requirements of their countries’ elites. The current media onslaught against Nicaragua uses the whole toolbox of propaganda tricks portraying aggressors as victims, reporting non-existent massacres of peacefully protesting students, denying systematic destruction by opposition paramilitaries of public property and private businesses, even omitting attacks on hospitals and ambulances. The big fundamental fiction has been that a majority of people in Nicaragua reject the Sandinista government led by President Daniel Ortega.

Letter From Nicaragua: A Catastrophic Well-Orchestrated Event Is Occurring

June 10, 2018 Barbara Moore, Popular Resistance Educate! coup, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

I am completely certain that this is a coup d’etat and given the present state of things, I am not surprised the Ortega’s have been left somewhat stunned. With mobs roaming the street wielding knives and mortars I do not blame them for constructing a barrier. With the dialogue abandoned, the Truth Commission rejected, the international community failing to be at all constructive, they are in a tight spot... What does surprise me is that few seem to see this catastrophe for the well-orchestrated event which in my opinion it so clearly is. I would not even say the US is the primary backer of the events, they are just there in the background. It is the right-wing within Nicaragua with a level of antipathy toward the Ortegas that cannot be overstated who have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Brazil Has Fallen Prey To Coup Leaders And Generals

June 6, 2018 By Francesco Bilotta, Global.ilmanifesto.it Educate! Brazil, coup, Regime Change

In the Brazilian capital, one finds an atmosphere of confusion and concern. The large square housing the monumental buildings that are home to the President of the Republic, the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court does not seem to have enough room to contain all the contradictions and tensions that have accumulated in the country. The “soft coup” which led to the dismissal of Dilma and the swearing in of Temer was finalized by Lula’s arrest. The anti-corruption Operation “Lava Jato,” launched by law enforcement in 2014, has involved a large part of the Brazilian political class and has had a profound effect on the political balance, causing fractures and restructuring, with a repositioning of all political and social forces.

Writing Off Democracy In Venezuela, US Press And Politicians Dream Of A Coup

May 18, 2018 Alan Macleod, Fair.org Educate! coup, Electoral Politics, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

When are elections free and fair, according to corporate media? When the US government says they are. The May 20 Venezuelan presidential elections pit Hugo Chavez’s successor, President Nicolas Maduro, against opposition challenger Henri Falcon. Maduro has called for the United Nations to observe and oversee the contest. Despite calling for elections throughout 2017, many local opposition groups, together with the US government, have demanded no observers should come, arguing that it would “validate” the elections, and have preemptively decided they will not recognize the victor. The US State Department (2/8/18) has cast doubt on the validity of the elections, claiming they represent a “dismantling” of Venezuela’s democracy, as “they do not have the agreement of all political parties.”

US Regime Changes Becomes Brazenly Obvious To The World

February 25, 2018 By Andrew Levine, Counterpunch Educate! coup, US Regime Change, Wars and Militarism

By the end of World War II, the United States had become a serial meddler in the affairs of the nations of the world, friend and foe alike. American intelligence services took particular aim at Third World and Western countries with large Communist Parties, and at countries on the other side of what used to be called “the Iron Curtain.” Meddling there took some doing before the implosion of the Soviet Union. It still does in China and North Korea, and in countries with strong states, like Iran, that resist American domination. Even so, with the Soviet Union gone, the European component of the formerly Communist world became easy prey. It was not until the Obama period that the extent of the transformation became too obvious to miss. This was especially evident in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, adjacent to Russia, deeply connected, historically and culturally, to the old Russian and Soviet empires. In these circumstances, what fair-minded person could blame the Russians for wanting to meddle in our affairs?

Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup Or Invasion Of Venezuela Next?

February 13, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Educate! coup, Regime Change, US Empire, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

Secretary of State Tillerson brought up a potential military coup in Venezuela on February 1, 2018 at his alma mater, the University of Texas. Tillerson then visited allied Latin American countries urging regime change and more economic sanctions on Venezuela. Tillerson is considering banning the processing or sale of Venezuelan oil in the US and discouraging Venezuelan oil in other countries. Further, the US is laying the groundwork for war against Venezuela. Not recognizing elections and urging a military coup are bad enough, more disconcerting is that Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, head of the Southcom, held a closed door meeting in Colombia after Tillerson's visit. Tidd has claimed the humanitarian crisis, created in large part the economic war against Venezuela, requires military action for humanitarian reasons. War preparations are already underway in Colombia. People in the United States who support the self-determination of other countries should show solidarity with Venezuelans, expose the US agenda and publicly denounce regime change.

Protests Continue On Honduras Amid Curfew, Police Repression

December 3, 2017 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! coup, Democracy, Hondura

By Staff for Telesur. Former Honduran president and coordinator of the Opposition Alliance, Manuel Zelaya, called on all Hondurans to take to the streets to defend presidential election preliminary results which showed opposition candidate, Salvador Nasrallah with a comfortable lead over the right-wing incumbent, as the electoral board continues to withhold final results. A day after denouncing vote count irregularities by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Nasrallah posted on Twitter for people to assemble "To defend the victory of the people!” The protests mark the second day of mass mobilizations despite the government enforcing a 10-day curfew, suspending constitutional rights and declaring a state of emergency.

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