<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;">Sounds like CIA is working on killing 2 birds with one stone--Ortega and Maduro.  BBC has been running their propaganda, calling Maduro (who escaped a public assassination attempt by drone yesterday) an "authoritarian, senseless dictator."<br><br>Midge<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@anti-war.net><br>Sent: Sat, Aug 4, 2018 4:07 pm<br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Chomsky on Nicaragua…<br><br></div>
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"Although Chomsky echoes the talking points of the USAID administrator Mark Green about “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jul-20-2018-usaid-administrator-mark-green-remarks-meeting-diaspora-groups">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>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 target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/noam-chomsky-supports-hillary-clinton-218192">absolutely</a>” support Hillary Clinton? It is from this moral ground that the professor looks down on Nicaragua.</p>
<p>These charges of corruption and such <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://afgj.org/the-case-against-daniel-ortega">
are addressed</a>by long-time solidarity activist Chuck Kaufman:</p>
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<p>+ 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>+ 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>+ 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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<div>From  <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/chomsky-on-regime-change-in-nicaragua/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/chomsky-on-regime-change-in-nicaragua/</a></div>
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<div>—mkb</div>
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