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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/world/americas/nicaragua-election-ortega.html

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

if US media outlets are talking about him like this it's for one reason

Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. (source)

you can make wild claims about "gunning down protestors" all you want I've heard similar bullshit about every US official enemy and have no reason to credit yours

[–] BojanglerGTX@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

wild claims about “gunning down protestors”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/nicaragua-amnesty-international-police-killings-daniel-ortega

This is actually happening.

if US media outlets are talking about him like this it’s for one reason

if the US war machine or CIA topple machine gave a shit about Nicaragua, you'd see a shit ton more headlines. We've had mostly silence on the issue on the English speaking internet, compared to fake issues like Venezuela/Cuba/Iran/China.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] BojanglerGTX@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

my spouse is a native Nicaraguan citizen who lived there during the shootings, yes

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

my spouse is a native citizen of Melmac and definitely not a bourgeois counterrevolutionary

[–] BojanglerGTX@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Defending a mass murdered who sold out the sandanistas a long time ago? :cringe:

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

WaPo is writing hit pieces because they care deeply about the Nicaraguan people, I am an adult who consumes media critically!

[–] BojanglerGTX@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

what the fuck are you talking about, my spouse told me about the events in real time before any articles were published

[–] Redbolshevik2@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

No one gives a shit about your comprador spouse.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

ok your anecdote has convinced me, time for America to fund some Nicaraguan death squads by running drugs to US inner cities and selling weapons to Iran. maybe mine the harbor of Managua again? let's put your spouse in charge of the US marine invasion force