Max Blumenthal: Nicaragua’s ‘Left-Wing’ Opposition MRS Lobbies the West for Regime Change

The Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista – MRS) is the intellectual, left-sounding arm of reactionary politics in Nicaragua. Its popular base is minuscule, but it has been adept at courting Western support.

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
Supporters of the Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS, protest against the Supreme Electoral Council's decision to invalidate the MRS as a political party in Managua, June 20, 2008. The Supreme Electoral Council said the MRS, which broke away from the ruling Sandinista Front in the 1990s, had failed to meet a deadline for naming party representatives in all of the country's electoral districts. Esteban Felix | AP

On a recent episode of my Moderate Rebels podcast with Ben Norton, I asked Nils McCune about the role of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista – MRS) party in marketing the recent coup in Nicaragua as a progressive popular mobilization. McCune, a longtime resident of the Nicaraguan city of Tipitapa, has worked

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What Really Happens to Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ecuador

Fifth column inspired regime change efforts have almost completely succeeded in bringing all of Central America in line with U.S. policy goals.

Peter Koenig
By Peter Koenig
An individual watches from above as protestors march below during an anti-government protest in Managua, Nicaragua, Aug. 11, 2018. Alfredo Zuniga | AP

Stories about corruption and internally government-generated violence concerning most unaligned countries abound in the MSM. These lies fuel hatred. And the public at large start a malicious rumor circuit. Which, in turn is taken over by the MSM, so that their lies are pushing in open doors. The war drums start beating. The populace wants foreign

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Max Blumenthal on the Violent Undemocratic Uprising in Nicaragua

The United States government, as Blumenthal has reported, laid the groundwork for what has unfolded in Nicaragua.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Sandinista party faithful and followers of President Daniel Ortega wave their Sandinista flags in a march for peace, in Managua, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 7, 2018. According to Nicaraguan human rights groups more than 300 persons have been killed since ant-government protests started more than two months ago. Alfredo Zuniga | AP

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola welcome journalist Max Blumenthal, the editor of the Grayzone Project and co-host of the podcast, “Moderate Rebels” to “Unauthorized Disclosure.” Blumenthal recently returned from a reporting trip in Nicaragua. (Click here to listen to the interview.) Nicaragua has experienced violence over the past months,

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US Wants Nicaragua to Fall Because It Poses the Threat of a Good Example

The US has targeted Nicaragua for regime change because Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista party show what truly progressive politics can accomplish.

Roger D. Harris
By Roger D. Harris
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrives to the Juan Pablo II plaza to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, in Managua, Nicaragua, July 19, 2018. Nicaragua marked anniversary of the 1979 revolution against dictator Anastasio Somoza, despite an ongoing political crisis that has seen hundreds killed. Alfredo Zuniga | AP

The US has targeted Nicaragua for regime change. Some former supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista party echo the US talking points: Ortega’s “entire government has been, in essence, neoliberal. Then it becomes authoritarian, repressive.” One would think that a neoliberal regime, especially if it were authoritarian

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How Washington Manipulated Nicaragua’s Death Toll to Drive Regime Change

Did Nicaragua’s Sandinista government really kill 300+ peaceful protesters? A forensic analysis of the death toll exposes the claim as a dangerous lie.

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
A protester wears a mask to hide his identity, in front a defaced billboard of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo, outside the Agrarian University in Managua, Nicaragua. Pro-government billboards have become targets for protesters. Esteban Felix | AP

A detailed study of the death toll that has been recorded in Nicaragua since a violent campaign to remove President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista government shows that at least as many Sandinista supporters were killed as opposition members. The study, “Monopolizing Death,” demonstrates how partisan local NGOs conflated all deaths that occurred

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The United States: The World’s Last Remaining Colonial Power

A government that has no shame whatsoever in telling the most transparent lies while actively trying to overthrow a democratically elected government is a government that deserves universal condemnation.

Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts
Malian special forces listen to instructions from a US Special Forces soldier in Kita, Mali. Alfred de Montesquiou | AP

The United States government has never allowed independent governments in Latin America. Every time people elect a government that represents them instead of US economic interests, Washington overthrows the elected government. Marine General Smedley Butler told us this as have many others. There is no doubt about it. Currently, Washington is

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