Daily Archives: July 9, 2023

2023-07-09: News Headlines

John Perry, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. (2023-07-09). Nicaragua: Fifth Anniversary Of Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist. popularresistance.org According to Amnesty International (AI), five years ago the Nicaraguan government committed an extraordinary and horrendous crime. In October 2018, AI published a report, Instilling Terror,[1] concerning the violent coup attempt that took place in Nicaragua in April-July of that year. Among the incidents they covered, they gave prominence to a claim that on July 8, 2018, Faber López Vivas, a young member of the national police force's Directorate of Special Operations, was the subject of a possible "extrajudicial execution" by his fellow police officers. The report alleged that two days earlier, disenchanted with…


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