Pence Outlines Interventionist Plans in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Over the years Washington has maintained economic and political attacks against these three countries hoping to bring about regime change.

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Ramping up interventionist rhetoric and policy against progressive governments in the region, United States Vice President Mike Pence said working for “freedom” in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela is a priority for Donald Trump’s administration during a ceremony in which new U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Carlos

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Nicaragua Regains Footing Following Foreign-Supported Opposition Protests

Like Venezuela, Nicaragua is in the crosshairs of the Western elites and their governments because its Sandinista President Daniel Ortega and his team have successfully implemented socialist-inspired policies while also defending the principles of a multi-polar world based on international law.

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Supporters of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega hold up his photo and Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) flags during a government event at Las Victorias square in Managua, Nicaragua, April 30, 2018. (AP/Alfredo Zuniga)

Recent disturbances in Nicaragua have served as a kind of who's who, separating anti-imperialists from cynical phonies both inside and outside the country. The tsunami of disinformation has swamped the usual suspect mainstream corporate media outlets and their alternative accomplices, but also other news sites that are generally anti-imperialist on

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The NICA Act: Empire Sets Its Sights on Nicaragua – Again

As Noam Chomsky has opined numerous times, the US shall never forgive the Nicaraguan people for overthrowing the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979, for militarily defeating the Contras and for then voting back in the Sandinistas in 2007.

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A protester walks between burning tires in Managua, Nicaragua, April 20, 2018. Clashes, between protesters opposed to social security reforms and police and pro-government groups, rocked the capital, and a half-dozen other cities over the last three days. (AP/Alfredo Zuniga)

It was only a matter of time before the US government and its compliant media would once again put Nicaragua in their sights. And, that time has indeed come. Last year, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act of 2017 (NICA Act) which would cut that already-poor country off from

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Is Nicaragua Next in Line for NATO-Style Regime Change?

The pattern is similar to events in Libya, Syria and Venezuela, where extreme right-wing political minorities conspired with foreign elites to overthrow the national status quo.

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A masked protester walks along a main avenue, littered with debris, in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, April 20, 2018. Three consecutive days of protests in Nicaragua after the announcement of controversial Social Security reforms added a fifth death and dozens of injured Friday. International organizations have shown concern and have called on the government of Daniel Ortega to respect the voice of the people. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Events in Nicaragua over the past week are clearly modeled on the kind of U.S.-led, NATO-driven regime change that succeeded in Libya, Ivory Coast and Ukraine, but has so far failed in Thailand, Syria and Venezuela. At a national level, the protests have been led by the private sector business classes defending their rate of profit

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The Use Of Social Movements To Maintain Economic Hegemony

Western utilization and manipulation of primitivist, conservative, and reactionary social forces in order to stop economic development is a long standing tradition and is thriving today.

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An opponent to Nicaragua's transoceanic canal project walks past a defaced a mural depicting national hero Augusto C. Sandino, in Juigalpa, Nicaragua, June 13, 2015, during a march against the construction of the canal. (AP/Esteban Felix)

Wall Street, London, and the Bretton Woods institutions like the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund claim to support development and the eradication of poverty around the world. They also claim to support scientific progress and raising the global standard of living. However, often they seem to make friends and allies with very

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Amnesty International Is Weaponizing Human Rights For The U.S., NATO

Just as it has done in the case of Venezuela, on Nicaragua, Amnesty International misrepresents the facts, cynically promoting the positions of the country’s right wing political opposition

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Nicaragua’s current Sandinista government has been the most successful ever in reducing poverty and defending the right of all Nicaraguans to a dignified life. Over the last year, in Latin America, Amnesty International has taken their collusion in support of NATO government foreign policy down to new depths of falsehood and bad faith,

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