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2021-11-14: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-14). Despite US Led Dirty Campaign, Nicaraguans Came Out In Force To Support The FSLN. popularresistance.org Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council declared President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) winners in an election that drew 65% of the eligible 4.4 million voters. Although Washington and its allies in the region denounced the election as a fraud preceded by repression of the opposition, there was significant participation of the electorate; moreover, despite claims that Ortega ran virtually unopposed, his ticket was contested by several long-standing opposition parties. Winning 75% of the vote, the FSLN demonstrated solid strength despite the U.S.

Roger D. Harris (2021-11-14). Nicaragua has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem. orinocotribune.com By Roger D. Harris — Nov 12, 2021 | US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections

_____ (2021-11-14). US Threatens Regime Change In Nicaragua. popularresistance.org The United States has continuously carried out acts of aggression against Nicaragua and its people for more than 150 years. Joseph Biden's effort to undermine that country's sovereignty is part of a long history of invasions, coups, and support for U.S. puppets. | The Biden administration declared the recent election fraudulent before it had even taken place. The corporate media repeated lies about an "authoritarian dictatorship" that came straight from the State Department's script. The United States congress voted overwhelmingly to pass the RENACER Act, a regime change plot featuring the imposition of sanctions…

William I Robinson (2021-11-14). 'Nicaragua presents a challenge to the international left'. zcomm.org With the US leading an international chorus rejecting the legitimacy of Nicaragua's general elections, the anti-imperialist left 'is walking a tightrope'

_____ (2021-11-13). Debunking Myths About Nicaragua's 2021 Elections, Under Attack by USA/EU/OAS. strategic-culture.org The US, 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. | By Ben NORTON | 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…

_____ (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…

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 (2021-11-13). Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US. orinocotribune.com By Ajamu Baraka — Nov 11, 2021 | 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 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 legi…

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.

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