Nicaragua becoming repressive again?
This is from The Economist, so there probably is a very large grain of salt required to be taken with this - but, it's the first I've read of how Nicaragua's been doing in a while:
Though Mr Ortega is once again president, as he was in the 1980s, in other ways Nicaraguan politics have changed radically. Most of his fellow revolutionary leaders have left the Sandinista Party and are now in opposition. And Mr Ortega is well on the way to establishing an autocracy, albeit a bankrupt one, in cahoots with former somocistas....Already unpopular, Mr Ortega seems to have miscalculated in alienating aid donors. Since the municipal election he has deployed gangs of uniformed thugs to break up opposition protests. So far they are armed only with staves, stones and homemade mortars. His regime is starting to resemble the dictatorship he once helped to overthrow. One of the original Sandinista leaders now in opposition says he feels obliged to meet contacts in secret, “as we used to do under Somoza”.
http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13145596
If you think salt is needed, Doug, why in hell would you serve it up without corroboration?
Because someone else might know more.
Let's hope they don't get it from the Washington Post.
Daniel Ortega stands accused of sexual abuse of his 11 year old stepdaughter how could Nicaraguans vote for someone like that-I ask you?
Bye Harry.
Funny, I hadn't known Harry had still been with us.
Harry, I hardly miss ye.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our Demands Most Moderate are/ We Only Want The World! -James Connolly
At first I thought you meant Obama was getting the CONTRAS up and running again!
I got a chuckle out of this terrible sign of repression:
Why thats terrible! Never see anything like that in good old Canada eh?
Funny, I hadn't known Harry had still been with us.
Just between you & me, I think all trolls banned prior to last October became unbanned automatically when the new Elbbab™ was rolled out.
I do know that he supports the 2006 criminalisation of all forms of abortion (therapeutic or not), part of his close ties with the Catholic Church.
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/472/1/
And yes, there are his daughter's sexual abuse allegations.
With considerably more leftist cred than The Economist, Roger Burbach has an article in Counterpunch called The Betrayal of the Sandinista Revolution.