Nicaragua’s dictatorship again embraces North Korean, Russian terror

[Rogue Valley]

Nicaragua’s dictatorship again embraces North Korean, Russian terror

North Korea recently launched two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The tyrant Kim Jong-Un has initiated 17 such launches so far this year. Almost the entire Western world has condemned his…

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8.1.23
North Korea recently launched two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The tyrant Kim Jong-Un has initiated 17 such launches so far this year. Almost the entire Western world has condemned his nuclear program. But in Nicaragua, in the backyard of the United States, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has defended North Korea’s initiatives, just as it has defended Russia’s war against Ukraine. Ortega, meanwhile, has announced it will open a permanent embassy in Pyongyang to strengthen bilateral relations. This is no harmless diplomatic tie. The Nicaraguan dictatorship has stated that nobody has the right to condemn the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea. He also noted that nuclear weapons are the only way to achieve international respect. Nicaragua and North Korea have a lot in common, including unhealthy cults of personality, assassinations and disappearances of enemies, hatred of the American “empire,” the love of dollars, a single party regime, and a family dynasty. Faced with loneliness and regional rejection, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has announced that it is strengthening relations with the triangle of evil: Iran, Syria and North Korea — that is, high-voltage geopolitics, sanctions and misery.

Nicaragua was the only Latin American country that participated in the Russian Vostok 2022 war games. More to the point, it is the only one that openly supports the invasion of Ukraine. Ortega defends the Ukraine War and those who promote it. Ortega’s actions should have consequences. Nicaragua should also be added to the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, due to its opening of a permanent embassy in North Korea and its strengthening of its relationship with Iran, Syria and Russia. Ortega continues to enjoy the flow of millions of dollars and euros from free trade agreements with the U.S. and the European Union. It is sad but true that the West’s policy of tolerance has thus enriched and empowered a dictator responsible for crimes against humanity. The presence of China, Russia, Iran, Syria and North Korea in the backyard of the U.S. is serious indeed. Reagan always warned about the evil ambition of Daniel Ortega, “the little dictator” and “the specter of Nicaragua transformed into an international aggressor nation, a base for subversion and terror.” These words remain valid today — best not to take them lightly.

It's high time we cut the cords with Latin American and South American dictatorships and lower the boom on them economically and politically.

 

[Tigerace117]

Nicaragua’s dictatorship again embraces North Korean, Russian terror

North Korea recently launched two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The tyrant Kim Jong-Un has initiated 17 such launches so far this year. Almost the entire Western world has condemned his…

thehill.com

It's high time we cut the cords with Latin American and South American dictatorships and lower the boom on them economically and politically.

The U.S. already tried “lowering the boom” on Nicaragua. Doesn’t seem to have convinced them to support us.

 

[RetiredUSN]

The U.S. already tried “lowering the boom” on Nicaragua. Doesn’t seem to have convinced them to support us.

They don't have to support the USA.....................no problem at all.

The CIA and other agencies will go in and disrupt the country like the old days.

It will be fun to watch all your whining on here when they do.

God Bless America!

 

[Tigerace117]

They don't have to support the USA.....................no problem at all.

The CIA and other agencies will go in and disrupt the country like the old days.

It will be fun to watch all your whining on here when they do.

God Bless America!

Oh, so the CIA and the Army will go back to teaching terrorists to rape and murder civilians?

The US will violate international law so badly the ICJ itself steps in again?

The US will hop back in bed with drug cartels to help funnel arms and money to those terrorists once more?

Because that’s what happened in the “old days”.

It’ll certainly be fun watching you lot try and cry about Putin after that, yes.

 

[RetiredUSN]

Oh, so the CIA and the Army will go back to teaching terrorists to rape and murder civilians?

The US will violate international law so badly the ICJ itself steps in again?

The US will hop back in bed with drug cartels to help funnel arms and money to those terrorists once more?

Because that’s what happened in the “old days”.

It’ll certainly be fun watching you lot try and cry about Putin after that, yes.

We'll do what is in our national interest.

You can always run down there and forewarn them as you seem to have plenty of time on your hands.

 

[Tigerace117]

We'll do what is in our national interest.

You can always run down there and forewarn them as you seem to have plenty of time on your hands.

We were directly responsible for boatloads of atrocities and the slaughter of numerous innocent people, yes.

Your attempts to defend that make your sputtering about Putin totally meaningless.

Oh, and guess what? Ortega is back in power, so all those atrocities the US helped carry out were not just utterly vile, but pointless as well.

 

[RetiredUSN]

We were directly responsible for boatloads of atrocities and the slaughter of numerous innocent people, yes.

Your attempts to defend that make your sputtering about Putin totally meaningless.

Oh, and guess what? Ortega is back in power, so all those atrocities the US helped carry out were not just utterly vile, but pointless as well.

And we'll keep going back until those ignorant screw balls get it right.

There's no room for any of your friends in South and Central America.

 

[Tigerace117]

And we'll keep going back until those ignorant screw balls get it right.

There's no room for any of your friends in South and Central America.

We’ll keep committing atrocities until they do what we want?

Thanks for admitting we are every bit as bad as Putin then bud.

I have to say, your full throated apologism for the rape and massacre of innocent civilians really does render your whining about me all the more comical.

 

[RetiredUSN]

We’ll keep committing atrocities until they do what we want?

Thanks for admitting we are every bit as bad as Putin then bud.

I have to say, your full throated defense of the rape and massacre of innocent civilians really does render your whining about me all the more comical.

Nicaragua needs to be led by its nose ring.

The US didn't commit any atrocities there as they didn't have to.

The Nicaragua government and all the your guerilla buddies did.

 

[Tigerace117]

Nicaragua needs to be led by its nose ring.

The US didn't commit any atrocities there as they didn't have to.

The Nicaragua government and all the your guerilla buddies did.

“Americas Watch, which subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch, accused the Contras of:[93]

• targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination[94]
• kidnapping civilians[95]
• torturing civilians[96]
• executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat[97]
• raping women[94]
• indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses[95]
• seizing civilian property[94]
• burning civilian houses in captured towns.[94]“

“Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: "[The] contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners."[98]

Oh really? We had to help the Contras shoot kids and rape women? Yeah, I call bullshit.

“While the Contras had little military successes, they did prove adept at carrying out CIA guerrilla warfare strategies from training manuals which advised them to incite mob violence, "neutralize" civilian leaders and government officials and attack "soft targets" — including schools, health clinics and cooperatives. The agency added to the Contras' sabotage efforts by blowing up refineries and pipelines, and mining ports.[12][60][61]”

”The CIA officer in charge of the covert war, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, admitted to the House Intelligence Committee staff in a secret briefing in 1984 that the Contras were routinely murdering "civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.”
In his affidavit to the World Court, former contra Edgar Chamorro testified that "The CIA did not discourage such tactics. To the contrary, the Agency severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians. We were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to ...kill, kidnap, rob and torture".[99]

Contras - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, you’ve officially lost all room to talk about Putin....or anyone else, for that matter.

 

[RetiredUSN]

“Americas Watch, which subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch, accused the Contras of:[93]

• targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination[94]
• kidnapping civilians[95]
• torturing civilians[96]
• executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat[97]
• raping women[94]
• indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses[95]
• seizing civilian property[94]
• burning civilian houses in captured towns.[94]“

“Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: "[The] contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners."[98]

Oh really? We had to help the Contras shoot kids and rape women? Yeah, I call bullshit.

“While the Contras had little military successes, they did prove adept at carrying out CIA guerrilla warfare strategies from training manuals which advised them to incite mob violence, "neutralize" civilian leaders and government officials and attack "soft targets" — including schools, health clinics and cooperatives. The agency added to the Contras' sabotage efforts by blowing up refineries and pipelines, and mining ports.[12][60][61]”

”The CIA officer in charge of the covert war, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, admitted to the House Intelligence Committee staff in a secret briefing in 1984 that the Contras were routinely murdering "civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.”
In his affidavit to the World Court, former contra Edgar Chamorro testified that "The CIA did not discourage such tactics. To the contrary, the Agency severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians. We were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to ...kill, kidnap, rob and torture".[99]

Contras - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, you’ve officially lost all room to talk about Putin....or anyone else, for that matter.

Did Americans do the killing?

Nope.

 

[Tigerace117]

Did Americans do the killing?

Nope.

Americans were the ones who taught them how to do the killing and encouraged— practically ordered— them to do it.

As I just showed.

We backed the mass murdering terrorists to the hilt, after the Nicaraguans dared to overthrow their US backed tyrant, and then we act shocked when the people of Nicaragua decide they don’t like us very much.

 

[Rogue Valley]

They don't have to support the USA.....................no problem at all.

The CIA and other agencies will go in and disrupt the country like the old days.

It will be fun to watch all your whining on here when they do.

God Bless America!

Unlike the Tigerace117 crowd, I support the men and women of the CIA.

 

[Tigerace117]

Unlike the Tigerace117 crowd, I support the men and women of the CIA.

You supporting the CIA carrying out a boatload of war crimes surprises no one.

 

[Fledermaus]

Unlike the Tigerace117 crowd, I support the men and women of the CIA.

And I am sure that sticks in the craw.

 

[Tigerace117]

I’m sure the people who cheerlead for US atrocities are pissed that all that “work” helping the Contras slaughter innocent civilians was nothing.

Shows how meaningless the blubbering about Putin is.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

It's high time we cut the cords with Latin American and South American dictatorships

Ummm, I don't think we HAVE any cords tying us to Ortega...show me our bonds with Nicaragua.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Ummm, I don't think we HAVE any cords tying us to Ortega...show me our bonds with Nicaragua.

I said nothing about Ortega per se....

It's high time we cut the cords with Latin American and South American dictatorships and lower the boom on them economically and politically.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I said nothing about Ortega per se....

Educate me as to our bonds with Latin American dictatorships.

 

[Tigerace117]

Educate me as to our bonds with Latin American dictatorships.

.....seriously?

Would you rather I go by year or country?

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

They don't have to support the USA.....................no problem at all.

The CIA and other agencies will go in and disrupt the country like the old days.

It will be fun to watch all your whining on here when they do.

God Bless America!

America the terror state

 

[Nickyjo]

They don't have to support the USA.....................no problem at all.

The CIA and other agencies will go in and disrupt the country like the old days.

It will be fun to watch all your whining on here when they do.

God Bless America!

The CIA and other agencies did their job well, installing and supporting governments that institutionalized torture, death squad killings and in one instance, genocide, whose architect Ronald Reagan praised. Our control and invasions of of Latin America matched the Soviet Union’s control and invasions of Eastern Europe almost country for country. God did not bless America’s efforts.

That said, though our history with Nicaragua was disgraceful for generations, Daniel Ortega, who at one point years ago offered hope, is a pretty obvious tyrant.

 

[Red_Dave]

“Americas Watch, which subsequently became part of Human Rights Watch, accused the Contras of:[93]

• targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination[94]
• kidnapping civilians[95]
• torturing civilians[96]
• executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat[97]
• raping women[94]
• indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses[95]
• seizing civilian property[94]
• burning civilian houses in captured towns.[94]“

“Human Rights Watch released a report on the situation in 1989, which stated: "[The] contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners."[98]

Oh really? We had to help the Contras shoot kids and rape women? Yeah, I call bullshit.

“While the Contras had little military successes, they did prove adept at carrying out CIA guerrilla warfare strategies from training manuals which advised them to incite mob violence, "neutralize" civilian leaders and government officials and attack "soft targets" — including schools, health clinics and cooperatives. The agency added to the Contras' sabotage efforts by blowing up refineries and pipelines, and mining ports.[12][60][61]”

”The CIA officer in charge of the covert war, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, admitted to the House Intelligence Committee staff in a secret briefing in 1984 that the Contras were routinely murdering "civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces, as well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges.”
In his affidavit to the World Court, former contra Edgar Chamorro testified that "The CIA did not discourage such tactics. To the contrary, the Agency severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians. We were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to ...kill, kidnap, rob and torture".[99]

Contras - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, you’ve officially lost all room to talk about Putin....or anyone else, for that matter.

All very valid and important history, but that doesn´t give Ortega a free pass for what is happening now.

 

[Luce]

People still take Daniel Ortega seriously?

 

[Tigerace117]

People still take Daniel Ortega seriously?

People still think helping the Contras carry out mass rape and murder was a good thing.