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2021-11-13: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-13). Nicaragua Has A Public Relations Problem. popularresistance.org Managua, Nicaragua – US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic." Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don't even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly more than democracy is at issue with the US offensive against Nicaragua. | At issue is what Biden described as "the arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates." An objective investigati…

Editor (2021-11-13). Debunking myths about Nicaragua's 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS. mronline.org The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.

Margaret Kimberley (2021-11-13). U.S. threatens regime change in Nicaragua. mronline.org Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration's attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its corporate media partners in this latest regime change effort.

Roger D. Harris (2021-11-13). Nicaragua Has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem. dissidentvoice.org US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic." Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don't even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly …

teleSUR, SH (2021-11-13). Nicaragua rechaza resolución de la OEA sobre elecciones en el país. telesurtv.net El diplomático nicaragüense condenó que los gobiernos patrocinadores de la resolución han ignorado la situación social y política que atraviesan.

Editor2 (2021-11-12). What I saw on Election Day in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Rick Sterling — Nov 10, 2021 | US media and politicians have condemned the November 7 Nicaragua election as a "fraud" and "sham". On the day of the election, the White House issued a But are these accusations true? | Along with other international volunteers, I was an eye-witness to the election last Sunday. Previously I have bee…

Ajamu Baraka (2021-11-12). Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US. dissidentvoice.org Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second …

_____ (2021-11-12). Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela As Existential Threats To The US. popularresistance.org One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Americas, universal healthcare and education are guaranteed to the population as a human right, while in the U.S. those kinds of basic human rights are distant dreams. | The day after the so-called progressive block of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives surrendered to President Joe Biden and the right-wing corporate wing of the party on the Build Back Better legislation that offered some minor a…

_____ (2021-11-12). Debunking Myths About Nicaragua's 2021 Election. popularresistance.org Managua, Nicaragua — Millions of Nicaraguans went to the polls on November 7, 2021, re-electing the leftist Sandinista Front and President Daniel Ortega by a large margin. | The Joe Biden administration refused to recognize the results, however. The United States and its allies in the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS) have instead launched what essentially amounts to a new coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. | On November 10, President Biden signed the RENACER Act, which will impose more crushing sanctions on Nicaragua. Washington's escalating campaign of econo…

Roger D. Harris (2021-11-12). Nicaragua Celebrates Democracy: Election Day Report. dissidentvoice.org Leon, Nicaragua, November 7, 2021 — On the fight down to Nicaragua a few days ago to be one of 225 international official election accompaniers from 27 countries, the expat Nicaraguan woman sitting next to me was hostile to the current Sandinista government. She said there will be an election but no vote, because only …

Benjamin Norton (2021-11-12). Desmintiendo mitos sobre las elecciones en Nicaragua, atacadas por EEUU, la UE y la OEA. thegrayzone.com EEUU, la UE y la OEA están lanzando un nuevo intento de golpe de estado contra el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua, negándose a reconocer sus elecciones de 2021. The Grayzone observó la votación y desmiente los mitos mediáticos que buscan desacreditar el proceso. (You can read this article in English here.) MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Millones de nicaragàºenses fueron a las urnas el 7 de noviembre de 2021, re-eligiendo por un amplio margen al Frente Sandinista y su Presidente Daniel Ortega. …

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