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<h1 style="clear: both; margin: 0.5em 0px;" class=""><span class="c28 c40"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/chomsky-on-regime-change-in-nicaragua/&sa=D&ust=1533836463693000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">Chomsky
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<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span class="c4 c9">by</span><span class="c28 c38 c4"> </span><span class="c37 c4 c9"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.counterpunch.org/author/roger-harris/&sa=D&ust=1533836463694000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">ROGER
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<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span class="c25 c28">Reprinted from CounterPunch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c6"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/chomsky-on-regime-change-in-nicaragua/&sa=D&ust=1533836463694000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/chomsky-on-regime-change-in-nicaragua/</a></span></p>
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<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">With patented angst, Noam Chomsky </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/chomsky_criticizes_autocratic_nicaraguan_government_urges&sa=D&ust=1533836463695000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">opined</a></span><span class="c2"> on
President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua to an agreeing Amy Goodman: “But there’s been a lot of corruption, a lot of repression. It’s autocratic, undoubtedly.”</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Earlier in their DemocracyNow! interview, the main talking points were established via a video clip of a dissident former
official from Ortega’s Sandinista Party: Ortega’s “entire government has been, in essence, neoliberal. Then it becomes authoritarian, repressive.”</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Left out of this view is why the US has targeted Nicaragua for regime change. One would think that a neoliberal regime,
especially if it were authoritarian and repressive, would be just the ticket to curry favor with Washington.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c14 c31">In Chomsky’s own words, Nicaragua poses a </span><span class="c11 c21"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://chomsky.info/unclesam01/&sa=D&ust=1533836463696000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">threat
of a good example</a></span><span class="c11 c14 c31"> to the US empire</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Since Ortega’s return election victory in 2006, Nicaragua had achieved the following, according to </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nscag.org./resources/July%2520statement%2520and%2520briefing.pdf&sa=D&ust=1533836463696000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">NSCAG</a></span><span class="c2">,
despite being the second poorest country in the hemisphere:</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Second highest economic growth rates and most stable economy in Central America.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Only country in the region producing 90% of the food it consumes.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Poverty and extreme poverty halved; country with the greatest reduction of extreme poverty.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Reaching the UN Millennium Development Goal of cutting malnutrition by half.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Free basic healthcare and education.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Illiteracy virtually eliminated, down from 36% in 2006.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Average economic growth of 5.2% for the past 5 years (IMF and the World Bank).</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Safest country in Central America (UN Development Program) with one of the lowest crime rates in Latin America.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Highest level of gender equality in the Americas (World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2017).</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Did not contribute to the migrant exodus to the US, unlike neighboring Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ Unlike its neighbors, kept out the drug cartels and pioneered community policing.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c14 c31">Nicaragua targeted by the US for regime change</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Before April 18, Nicaragua was among the most peaceful and stable countries in the region. The otherwise inexplicable
violence that has suddenly engulfed Nicaragua should be understood in the context of it being targeted by the US for regime change.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Nicaragua has provoked the ire of the US for the good things its done, not the bad.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Besides being a “threat” of a good example, Nicaragua is in the anti-imperialist </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://albainfo.org/what-is-the-alba/&sa=D&ust=1533836463698000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">ALBA</a></span><span class="c2"> alliance
with Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and others. The attack on Nicaragua is part of a larger strategy by the US to tear apart regional alliances of resistance to the Empire, though that is not the whole story.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Nicaragua regularly votes against the US in international forums such as challenging retrograde US policies on climate
change. An inter-ocean canal through Nicaragua is being considered, which would contend with the Panama Canal. Russia and China invest in Nicaragua, competing with US capital.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">The NICA Act, passed by the US House of Representatives and now before the Senate, would initiate economic warfare designed
to attack living conditions in Nicaragua through economic sanctions, as well as intensify US intelligence intervention. The ultimate purpose is to depose the democratically-elected Ortega government.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Meanwhile, </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jul-20-2018-usaid-administrator-mark-green-remarks-meeting-diaspora-groups&sa=D&ust=1533836463699000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">USAID
announced</a></span><span class="c2"> an additional $1.5 million “to support freedom and democracy in Nicaragua” through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to overthrow the democratically elected government and “make this truly a hemisphere of freedom.”
That is, freedom for the US empire.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c14 c31">Holding Nicaragua to a higher standard than our own government</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Although Chomsky echoes the talking points of the USAID administrator Mark Green about “</span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jul-20-2018-usaid-administrator-mark-green-remarks-meeting-diaspora-groups&sa=D&ust=1533836463700000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">Ortega’s
brutal regime</a></span><span class="c2">,” he can’t quite bring himself to accept responsibility for regime change. Chomsky </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/chomsky_criticizes_autocratic_nicaraguan_government_urges&sa=D&ust=1533836463700000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">despairs</a></span><span class="c2">,
“it’s hard to see a simple way out at this point. It’s a very unfortunate situation.”</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">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 </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/noam-chomsky-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-a7438526.html&sa=D&ust=1533836463701000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">chastised
leftists</a></span><span class="c2"> who did not “</span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/noam-chomsky-supports-hillary-clinton-218192&sa=D&ust=1533836463701000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">absolutely</a></span><span class="c2">”
support Hillary Clinton? It is from this moral ground that the professor looks down on Nicaragua.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">These charges of corruption and such </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://afgj.org/the-case-against-daniel-ortega&sa=D&ust=1533836463701000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">are
addressed</a></span><span class="c2">by long-time solidarity activist Chuck Kaufman:</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ 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.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ 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.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">+ 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.”</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c14 c31">Alternatives to Ortega would be worse</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Those who call for Ortega’s removal need to accept responsibility for what comes after. Here the lesson of Libya is instructive,
where the replacement of, in </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://chomsky.info/20110330/&sa=D&ust=1533836463702000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">Chomsky’s
words</a></span><span class="c2">, the “brutal tyrant” and “cruel dictator” Qaddafi has resulted in a </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-richest-state-under-gaddafi-to-failed-state-after-nato-intervention/5408740&sa=D&ust=1533836463702000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">far
worse</a></span><span class="c2">situation for the Libyan people.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Any replacement of Ortega would be more, not less, neoliberal, oppressive, and authoritarian. When the Nicaraguan people,
held hostage to the US-backed Contra war, first voted Ortega out of office in 1990, the incoming US-backed Violeta Chamorro government brought neoliberal structural adjustment and a moribund economy.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">The dissident Sandinistas who splintered off from the official party after the party’s election defeat and formed the
MRS (Sandinista Renovation Movement) are not a progressive alternative. They are now comfortably ensconced in </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quixote.org/manufacturing-dissent-the-n-e-d-opposition-media-and-the-political-crisis-in-nicaragua/&sa=D&ust=1533836463703000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">US-funded</a></span><span class="c2">NGOs,
regularly making junkets to Washington to pay homage to the likes of Representative Iliana Ros-Lehtinenand Senator Marco Rubio to lobby in favor of the NICA Act. Nor do they represent a popular force, garnering less than 2% in national elections.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">When the MRS left the Sandinista party, they took with them almost all those who were better educated, came from more
privileged backgrounds, and who spoke English. These formerly left dissidents, now </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://afgj.org/nicanotes-the-mrs-is-not-left-or-democratic&sa=D&ust=1533836463703000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">turned
to the right</a></span><span class="c2">in their hatred of Ortega, have many ties with North American activists, which explains some of the confusion today over Nicaragua.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">The world, not just Ortega, has changed since the 1980s when the Soviet Union and its allies served as a counter-vailing
force to US bullying. What was possible then is not the same in today’s more constrained international arena.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c14 c31">Class war turned upside down</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://resumen-english.org/2018/07/lessons-learned-from-the-failed-violent-coup-in-nicaragua-and-next-steps/&sa=D&ust=1533836463704000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">Kevin
Zeese</a></span><span class="c2">of Popular Resistance aptly characterized the offensive against the democratically elected government of Nicaragua as “a class war turned upside down.” Nicaragua was the most progressive country in Central America with no close
rival. Yet some North American left intellectuals are preoccupied with Nicaragua’s shortcomings while not clearly recognizing that it is being attacked by a domestic rightwing in league with the US government.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Noam Chomsky is a leading world left intellectual and should be acclaimed for his contributions. His incisive warning
about the </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/hiroshima-day-nuclear-weapons-cold-war-usa-bomb&sa=D&ust=1533836463705000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">US
nuclear policy</a></span><span class="c2">is just one essential example. Nevertheless, he is also indicative of a tendency in the North American left to accept a bit too readily the talking points of imperialist propaganda, regarding the present-day Sandinistas.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">There is a disconnect between Chomsky’s urging Nicaraguans to replace Ortega with new elections and his longtime and
forceful advocacy against US imperialist depredations of countries like Nicaragua. Such elections in Nicaragua would not only be unconstitutional but would further destabilize a profoundly destabilized situation. Given the unpopularity and disunity of the
opposition and the unity and organizational strength of the Sandinistas, Ortega would likely win.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">Most important, the key role of Northern American solidarity activists is to end US interference in Nicaragua so that
the Nicaraguans can solve their own problems.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">The rightwing violence since April in Nicaragua should be understood as a coup attempt. A significant portion of the
Nicaraguan people have </span><span class="c18"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/homage-to-nicaragua/&sa=D&ust=1533836463705000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">rallied
around their elected government</a></span><span class="c2"> as seen in the massive demonstrations commemorating the Sandinista revolution on July 19.</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c2">For now, the rightwing </span><span class="c29">tranques </span><span class="c2">(blockades) have been dismantled and
citizens can again freely circulate without being shaken down and threatened. In the aftermath, though, Nicaragua has suffered unacceptable human deaths, massive public property damage, and a wounded economy with the debilitating NICA Act threatening to pass
the US Senate.</span></span></p>
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<h1 style="clear: both; margin: 0.5em 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span class="c22 c14 c11 c4">Briefs</span></strong></span></h1>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c22 c14 c11 c4">By Nan McCurdy</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c7">Walk for Peace with Justice and Non-Intervention in Managua</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Thousands of people walked Saturday in Managua and in other municipalities demanding justice for those killed by the terrorists at the
roadblocks. They also demanded non-intervention in Nicaragua with the reminder that Nicaragua is a sovereign nation. They marched for peace and in defense of the national health system and included a kind of parade of burned/destroyed government vehicles.
Well over a hundred government vehicles were attacked, destroyed and burned over the last months including over fifty ambulances. Health centers and hospitals were also affected. See pictures of Managua, Carazo, Jalapa, San Juan de Rio Coco, Boaco and more:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/general/247556/caminata-por-paz-y-la-no-injerencia-extranjera/&sa=D&ust=1533836463707000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/general/247556/caminata-por-paz-y-la-no-injerencia-extranjera/</a></span><span class="c14 c17"> (Radio
La Primerisima, Aug. 4)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.el19digital.com/articulos/ver/titulo:79921-pobladores-de-el-rosario-carazo-exigen-castigo-por-victimas-del-terrorismo&sa=D&ust=1533836463707000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.el19digital.com/articulos/ver/titulo:79921-pobladores-de-el-rosario-carazo-exigen-castigo-por-victimas-del-terrorismo</a></span><span class="c14 c17"> (El
Digital 19, Aug. 5)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.el19digital.com/articulos/ver/titulo:79920-jalapa-en-caminata-por-la-justicia-y-reparacion-a-las-victimas-del-golpe-terrorista&sa=D&ust=1533836463708000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.el19digital.com/articulos/ver/titulo:79920-jalapa-en-caminata-por-la-justicia-y-reparacion-a-las-victimas-del-golpe-terrorista</a></span><span class="c14 c17">
(El Digital 19, Aug. 5)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454791-caravana-justicia-paz-san-juan-rio-coco-madriz/&sa=D&ust=1533836463708000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454791-caravana-justicia-paz-san-juan-rio-coco-madriz/</a></span><span class="c14 c17">
(TN 8, Aug. 5)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454767-boaco-vuelve-pedir-justicia-victimas-asesinadas-terroristas/%2520%2520&sa=D&ust=1533836463708000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454767-boaco-vuelve-pedir-justicia-victimas-asesinadas-terroristas/<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span><span class="c14 c17"> (TN8,
Aug. 4)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span class="c11 c25 c4">Rebuilding infrastructure in tourism sector</span></strong><br class="">
<span class="c25 c4">The President of the Nicaragua Institute of Municipal Development (INIFOM), Guiomar Irías, announced that it is advancing in the rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed by terrorist groups. "A 90% progress has been achieved in the repair
of infrastructure and reactivation of small businesses in Granada, Masaya and Rivas Departments, which is a major tourism route in Nicaragua," the INIFOM President said. (Nicaragua News, Aug. 2)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c11 c20 c32 c4">Nicaragua calls the Organization of American States Interventionist</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c20 c4">Nicaragua strongly rejected a new and fifth attempt by the Permanent Council of the OAS to create a commission of
a number of countries called a “Work</span><span class="c4">ing</span><span class="c35 c4"> </span><span class="c20 c4">Group” whose mission would be to support the national dialogue and contribute to the “search for peaceful and sustainable solutions.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c4">Nicaraguan
Foreign Minister Denis Moncada said,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c14 c16 c4">“This is on top of three OAS groups that are already in Nicaragua – the IACHR, MESENI and the GIEI (International Group of Independent Experts).”
The duration of the new group is not specified nor are its procedures. “This would set a precedent to apply to other nations, Moncada added.” There were 20 votes in favor out of 34 nations. The resolution was led by the US and its allies and Moncada called
it illegitimate, saying, “Its intention continues to be of an interventionist character.” (Informe Pastran, Aug. 2)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c11 c20 c32 c4">The Coup was Defeated: Moncada on the OAS</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c17 c4">Foreign Minister Denis Moncada accused the Organization of American States of becoming a colony administrator
for the US in favor of foreign intervention in the affairs of certain Latin American countries. He also blamed the US for supporting and financing local groups that attempted a coup d’état against a legally elected government, when Nicaragua has recovered
peace, order, security and has ended the roadblocks put up by the opposition. “The coup has been defeated and this has blocked the imperial intentions of the US.” He then protested, “But now comes blackmail and pressure by the US to damage the Nicaraguan economy
promoting economic blockades of Nicaragua in the multilateral financial institutions.” (Informe Pastran Aug. 2)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c4 c7">President Ortega says Nicaragua will not invite the new “OAS Working Group”</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c17 c4">“They have plenty of problems in their own nations, to want to come interfere in our situation.” “The OAS has
been a historic instrument created by the US to control the entire region and to accompaniment the US when it invades Latin American countries.” (Informe Pastran, Aug. 6)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c4">Government went to Vatican as part of Efforts to Restart the Dialogue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c17">Foreign Minister Denis Moncada says the Dialogue is stuck due to the actions of some members of the Catholic Bishops
Conference who have openly favored the opposition. He added, “We need mediation by the Bishops who do not show partiality. And that’s why we went to the Vatican. We should find the best way to define a new dialogue and avoid foreign intervention. The great
media machine, certain human rights groups and certain international institutions have created the image of a repressive government. In the lists of those who have died, they include people who have died in traffic accidents, from heart attacks, from operations
– this is a very irresponsible behavior which does not help to resolve a complex situation. Every death is important and we are investigating the deaths through the Commission for Truth.” He added, “In the last visit with the United Nations we felt that we
were heard.” Moncada met with the UN Secretary General in New York three weeks ago. “The UN has promised to accompany us in the new attempt at a Dialogue,” he said. (Informe Pastran, Aug. 6)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span class="c11 c4">Strong condemnation of terrorist attack in Venezuela</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c4">Vice President Rosario Murillo said the Nicaraguan government firmly condemns the terrorist attack against Venezuelan
President Nicolás Maduro last Saturday in Caracas. "We are outraged, with our hearts filled with revolutionary solidarity, we strongly reject and condemn the criminal attack perpetrated by the same terrorists who wanted to destroy our country and now have
tried to take the life of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela," Vice President Murillo said. (Nicaragua News, Aug. 6)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c7">Venezuelan Foreign Minister: Investigations point to the United States and Columbia</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c17">Jorge Arreaza, Foreign Minister of Venezuela, stated that the attempt on the life of President Nicolas Maduro on
Saturday, is part of the ongoing coup attempt against the government. President Maduro also accused the Venezuelan far-right and the Columbian far-right, working with Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos, whose term ends this week. President Maduro said
the material authors of the attack against his life are being processed. President Maduro called on Donald Trump to be ready to combat terrorist groups that try to kill presidents in completely peaceful nations like Venezuela. “I’m alive thanks to the people
and the Venezuelan Armed Forces”. Saturday afternoon during his speech for the eighty-first anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard, a group of drones exploded near the President. Seven military were wounded. (19 Digital, Aug 5)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c7">Youth Murdered by Opposition Received as Hero by Sandinistas </span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Twenty-year-old Dariel Steven Gutierrez Rios was shot in the head in an ambush in La Trinidad, Estelí, while participating in an FSLN
caravan that was trying to travel to Managua to be part of a Sandinista Peace Gathering and a salute to Mothers on May 30th. At the moment of the attack at an opposition roadblock in La Trinidad the terrorists killed Jairo Antonio Osorio of Jalapa, and wounded
twenty-one others including Gutierrez. His struggle for life lasted two months and he died July 31. The Department of Madriz paid homage to Gutierrez and his<span class="c11"> </span>family with a caravan of hundreds of Sandinistas.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/general/247369/sandinistas-reciben-restos-de-joven-asesinado-en-esteli/&sa=D&ust=1533836463712000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/general/247369/sandinistas-reciben-restos-de-joven-asesinado-en-esteli/</a></span><span class="c14 c17">
(Radio La Primerisima, Radio Ya, Aug. 1)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c13"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nuevaya.com.ni/fallece-joven-segoviano-victima-del-terrorismo-golpista-contra-familias-sandinistas/&sa=D&ust=1533836463713000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://nuevaya.com.ni/fallece-joven-segoviano-victima-del-terrorismo-golpista-contra-familias-sandinistas/</a></span><span class="c13"> </span><span class="c22 c14 c39 c4">(Nueva
Ya, Jul. 31)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c11 c27 c4">Police Captain César Martín Blandón Urrutia,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c11 c4">Murdered</span><span class="c11 c35 c4"> </span><span class="c22 c14 c11 c4">in
Department of Carazo</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c27 c4">The 45-year-old Captain was shot Sunday August 5 at approximately 8pm in the community of “Triangulo del Oro”, municipality
of Jinotepe (There was a great deal of opposition violence in this area). Captain Blandon worked in Matagalpa and had gone to Masaya for the weekend to see family. When he was killed, he was looking to buy a motorcycle. Along with his life the delinquents
took his pistol, his money, his civilian jacket and his shoes. Investigations are ongoing. (Police Press Report, Aug 6)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c7">Another Wounded Sandinista Dies as a result of Coup Violence</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c14 c17">On August 3, Luis Enrique Montano died. He was severely wounded July 14 in Somoto by an opposition delinquent on
a motorcycle. Montano was transferred by other Sandinistas from Montano’s village of Cacauli to Somoto. (Informe Pastran, Aug. 3)</span></span></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="c7">Government Visits Survivors of Violence around the County – Portobanco was Tortured.</span></span></strong></p>
<p style="clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">In Boaco, government officials<span class="c35"> </span>visited Jose Antonio Portobanco who was tortured by the opposition delinquents
in April and amazingly came out alive. Crying he said “I feel so grateful for the support of my work companions. I’m still not well enough to work but hope to recuperate soon. It’s terrible how the terrorists robbed my freedom and the happiness that I once
enjoyed. I ask for justice – they need to pay for their crimes.” The officials also visited 29-year-old<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="c20 c4">Yefrin Rafael Sevilla Saravia who is recuperating from a gunshot wound. He was shot while
he and others were rescuing a group of women being violated by coup-terrorists at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c4">roadblocks</span><span class="c20 c4">. “What happened to me was a terrorist act. They have to pay in some
way for what they did.” The survivors, with tears in their eyes, shared what had happened and thanked God for giving them their lives again. They asked for justice for those who were killed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="c13 c4"><a class="c8" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454729-autoridades-boaco-visitan-victimas-terrorismo-golpista/&sa=D&ust=1533836463715000" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(152, 0, 0);">https://www.tn8.tv/departamentos/454729-autoridades-boaco-visitan-victimas-terrorismo-golpista/</a></span><span class="c14 c16 c4">
(Channel 8, Aug. 3)</span></span></p>
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