<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Chomsky has been well-informed on Nicaragua for a long time. I wouldn’t disregard his views.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 4, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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"Although Chomsky echoes the talking points of the USAID administrator Mark Green about “<a href="https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jul-20-2018-usaid-administrator-mark-green-remarks-meeting-diaspora-groups" class="">Ortega’s brutal regime</a>,”
he can’t quite bring himself to accept responsibility for regime change. Chomsky
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despairs</a>, “it’s hard to see a simple way out at this point. It’s a very unfortunate situation.”
<p class="">Chomsky is concerned about corruption, repression, and autocracy in Nicaragua, urging the democratically elected president to step down and run for re-election. Need it be mentioned that Chomsky
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chastised leftists</a> who did not “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/noam-chomsky-supports-hillary-clinton-218192" class="">absolutely</a>” support Hillary Clinton? It is from this moral ground that the professor looks down on Nicaragua.</p>
<p class="">These charges of corruption and such <a href="https://afgj.org/the-case-against-daniel-ortega" class="">
are addressed</a>by long-time solidarity activist Chuck Kaufman:</p>
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<p class="">+ The World Bank, IMF, and EU countries have certified Nicaragua for its effective use of international loans and grants; funds were spent for the purposes they were given, not siphoned off into corruption.</p>
<p class="">+ Kaufman asks, “why a police force that in 39 years had not repressed the Nicaraguan people would suddenly go berserk,” while videos clearly show the violence of the more militant opposition.</p>
<p class="">+ Ortega won in 2006 with a 38% plurality, in 2011 with 63%, and 72.5% in 2016. The Organization of American States officially accompanied and certified the vote. Kaufman notes, “Dictators don’t win fair elections by growing margins.”</p>
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