The US State Department relies on the Comité Pro Liberación de Presos Políticos’ data in its own reports on “human rights” in Nicaragua. These disinformation campaigns concerning “political prisoners” and Nicaragua’s crackdown on femicide are coordinated attacks in a larger information war against its democratically elected socialist government. Since these mass pardons were issued, numerous former detainees who had been individually named in the US-endorsed “political prisoners” lists have returned to their violent ways, and have been arrested again for severe crimes, including murder, rape, and alleged terror plotting. All along, he enjoyed strong popular approval. © 2020, World Politics Review LLC. A search of the Nicas Presos Políticos database that this opposition group maintains reveals that García Gonzalez was listed. The majority of the leftist ruling party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), consists of women, and it has strongly emphasized the importance of women in the revolutionary movement. By Ismael Lopez. The Grayzone reported in February on the horrifying case of Ruth Elizabeth Aburto Acevedo, a pregnant 22-year-old Nicaraguan who was repeatedly stabbed by her own boyfriend, who then left her to die in a puddle of her own blood. The aim of the program was to “undermin[e] the image of the Nicaraguan government at the beginning of the electoral process of 2016.” In the last two years, USAID audits, the most recent from August 2020, show that a further $2 million has been allocated under the same program. The website describes his previous date of arrest, during the coup attempt in June 10, 2018, as the “date of kidnapping.”. During the 1980s, Ortega was a leftist icon thanks to his part in the 1979 Sandinsta Revolution that successfully overthrew the right-wing Somoza administration. [22] After decades of Somoza’s brutal dictatorship, anger and despair among the Nicaraguan people created the conditions for a civil war. Your FREE registration includes access to select articles, early announcements, and periodic discounts on our full-service subscription. United States Presidential Election, 2012 (President Ventura) United States Presidential Election 2012 (LLB'sWorld) United States Presidential Election 2016 (LLB'sWorld) Another US-funded opposition NGO, the Observatorio de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua (Nicaragua Observatory of Human Rights), also included this alleged terror plotter Garía González in its list of “presxs políticxs”. But García Gonzalez was later freed in February 2019, due to the Nicaraguan amnesty law that had been aggressively demanded by the right-wing opposition and its foreign patrons in the United States, European Union, OAS, and NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The fear of a new Nicaraguan civil war cast a shadow across the region last year, when a government crackdown against dissent turned deadly. Puedes leer este informe en español aquí. See more ideas about Civil war, Nicaraguan, War. Photos of the explosives, guns, and drugs caught on the Nicaraguan former “political prisoner” Danny de los Ángeles García González They had been carrying bags full of explosives, guns, and drugs. International pressure on the Ortega administration has increased in recent weeks, but the situation in the country is still deteriorating, with tens of thousands of Nicaraguans having already fled into exile. Legislators loyal to President Daniel Ortega pushed through the amendment with 70 votes in favor and 16 against. The security forces charged the men with trafficking of explosives, illegal possession of firearms, and drug trafficking. Sierra Leone Civil War Angolan Civil War Nicaraguan Civil War Yugoslav Wars Iran-Iraq War Initially, the United Nations had over 100 thousand troops it could call in when needed. The Nicaraguan Revolution was a revolution in the central american country of Nicaragua. (May 2018) Was It A False Flag? The Observatorio de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua and its directory of “presxs políticxs” is run by a Nicaraguan opposition NGO called the Asociación Cívica por la Democracia (Civic Association for Democracy, or ACD). While these criminals have carried out egregious crimes, up to and including murder, especially targeting women, both the Donald Trump administration and the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have repeatedly called for more supposed “political prisoners” to be released. In addition to the human toll and the erosion of the rule of law, the crisis has created serious problems for Ortega, who once enjoyed the highest approval ratings of any president in the hemisphere. The ACD is bankrolled by Washington’s soft-power arm the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Right-wing Nicaraguan opposition groups funded by the US government have published lists of hundreds of detainees they insist are being unjustly imprisoned. Meanwhile, the growing prevalence of facial recognition technology in authoritarian countries like Russia and the United Arab Emirates, which use it to monitor activists and suppress dissent, has raised increasing alarm among human rights advocates. Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. The government of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, had every reason to feel confident that the future was secure for their dynastic project. Nicaraguan security forces published photos showing the men had 10 sets of explosives with detonators, along with two 38 caliber revolvers, and 12 pounds of marijuana. Marred by acts of shocking sadism by Nicaragua’s opposition, the bloody putsch had the full backing of Washington and the OAS, which actively support Nicaragua’s opposition and automatically consider any right-wingers detained to be political prisoners. But Nicaragua’s right-wing media publications, many of which are funded by the US government, joined with mainstream Western corporate outlets in portraying the popular proposal to punish femicide as a purported attack on the opposition. At a time when the international order is being challenged and decades-old conflicts appear to be in flux, perhaps it isn’t a surprise that anti-government protests in an impoverished Central American country initially fell under the radar last year. 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Social unrest has revived painful memories of the Nicaraguan civil war. Now Nicaragua increasingly looks like a country on the brink of a breakdown. Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge? Nicaraguan security forces published photos showing the men had 10 sets of explosives with detonators, along with two 38 caliber revolvers, and 12 pounds of marijuana. The police said both suspects “admit that the explosives would have been used to target the Masaya mayor’s facilities and monuments to [Sandinista] heroes and martyrs, and to spread terror and anxiety in the barrios of Monimbó, San Carlos, and Divino Niño.”. During the last Nicaraguan civil war, over 250,000 Nicaraguan refugees sought asylum in the United States. In late January 2019, the Nicaraguan government announced it was implementing the very reforms that triggered the widespread protests last year and led to a brutal government crackdown. Post-Sandinista era @BenjaminNorton traveled to Jinotepe, Nicaragua to report the shocking story of how the US and OAS lobbied for the release of violent criminals behind a 2018 coup attempt, One man they called a "political prisoner" stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to deathhttps://t.co/6fA6TZOgmO, — The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) February 28, 2020. After the Great Solar Flare of 2020, the United Nations united together to … And although violence against women is not nearly as widespread in Nicaragua as it is in Mexico or neighboring countries in Central America, femicide is still a concern, and the Sandinista government has tried to crack down hard on the problem. Download Surveillance, Control and Disinformation Technology today to take a deeper look at these trends and get a glimpse at what the future may hold. In late August 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a blistering report on the political violence in Nicaragua that killed more than 300 people and injured more than 2,000 in the previous months. Faced with this heavy international pressure, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government was forced to the negotiating table with the foreign-backed opposition, and was compelled in 2019 to issue an amnesty for hundreds of people who had been imprisoned the year before. His Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) succeeded in expanding its base while other parties declined. Download your FREE copy of Surveillance, Control and Disinformation Technology to learn more today. 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President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on protests has driven the country to the brink. A poll by a mainstream firm, M&R Consultores, found that around 90 percent of Nicaraguans supported the proposal of life imprisonment for deadly hate crimes. . In fact, while these criminals are wreaking havoc, the State Department, the US embassy, and the right-wing coup-plotting leader of the OAS, Luis Almagro, have continued to constantly call for more so-called “political prisoners” in Nicaragua to be released. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 24, 2020. In response to several appalling cases of femicide in Nicaragua in September, including the ghastly murder of two young girls that sparked a nationwide scandal, Vice President Rosario Murillo raised the possibility of life imprisonment for men who kill women and carry out deadly hate crimes. Learn more, in Nicaragua’s Politics Are About More Than Just Ortega, Despite His Hold on Power for FREE with your subscription to World Politics Review. In January 2020, the nefarious potential of such technology was vividly demonstrated when the heir to the Saudi kingdom apparently used Israeli-made spyware to breach the personal phone of the world’s richest man, who owns a leading American newspaper and runs one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies. Aburto Acevedo’s romantic partner and killer, Jeison Joesma Castro Ortez, had participated in the coup attempt, and had been arrested in July 2018 on charges of terrorism, armed robbery, and organized crime. https://t.co/3NaJNVv2af, — Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (@StateDRL) April 10, 2020, Comunicado de la Secretaría General de la @OEA_oficial sobre la situación de presos políticos en #Nicaragua. Much of this was due to his economic and social policies. Editor's Note: This article was first published in October 2018 and is regularly updated. (Reuters) - Nicaragua’s parliament voted on Tuesday to amend the Central American country’s constitution to allow life sentences for hate crimes despite criticism from human rights organizations who contend it will be used to target political opponents.. (This neologism is an attempted gender-neutral form of the term “presos politicos” that is not used by Nicaraguans, and is employed almost exclusively by North American liberals cultivated in NGOs and elite academic institutions.). Latest News & Top Stories. Two failed attempts at dialogue last May and June were followed by more state violence against protesters, which raised the specter of civil war and allowed Ortega to regain the upper hand. The ACD was a one of the main “civil society” organizations incubated as part of USAID’s Capacity Building for Civil Society Advocacy (CBCSA) program in Nicaragua. Nicaraguan President Missing in Action for Nearly One Month and Counting. Meanwhile, the victims of the opposition’s criminal shock troops, like 22-year-old Ruth Aburto Acevedo, have been ignored and erased by Washington and its lobbyists in the human rights industry. Picture taken March 30, 2020. There were encompasses these events that made up the revolution: the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) attempting to oust it, then the FSLN attempting to govern in Nicaragua from 1979-1990, and the Contra War between the FSLN … With the threat of violent unrest in the past, how is Daniel Ortega now stifling dissent? Reagan's contras lost....mostly democratic governments have come and gone since 1989 all non contra, and today 2020 Daniel Ortega and the FSLN Sandinista's are in power again. Yet many democracies are also using these same technologies in troubling ways.

In 2009 the Nicaraguan Supreme Court lifted the constitutional ban that prevented presidents from serving consecutive terms, paving the way for Ortega’s reelection in 2011. ... Nicaragua March 30, 2020. Anti-government protesters march outside Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 26, 2018 (AP photo by Alfredo Zuniga). The power couple in Managua seemed perfectly safe. The drama started unexpectedly in April 2018, with pensioners protesting cuts to their meager retirement allowances. The current violent repression of anti-government protests leaves little room for doubt that Nicaragua’s economic successes have come at the expense of democracy. Alongside the Pentagon, USAID played a central part in the US coup attempt against Venezuela’s democratically elected government. The United States, European Union, Organization of American States (OAS), and leading so-called “human rights” organizations have aggressively lobbied for the release of Nicaraguans who they claim are political prisoners. And the US embassy, OAS, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have uncritically used these directories to pressure the Nicaraguan government to free everyone named. The Comité Pro Liberación de Presos Políticos identified 796 people in this list of supposed “political prisoners,” and its registry has consistently been used by Western governments, “human rights” organizations, and mainstream corporate media outlets. Ortega’s crackdown has Nicaragua at the brink of a breakdown. But authoritarian countries are not alone: This technology is now being harnessed for law enforcement and surveillance purposes in many democracies. The man was caught with explosives and illegal firearms, and was allegedly plotting terror attacks against his country’s elected, UN-recognized government. To learn more, read What ‘Normalcy’ on Ortega’s Terms Looks Like in Nicaragua for FREE with your subscription to World Politics Review. Meanwhile, the violence carried out by the former “political prisoners” has only escalated. Learn more, in Nicaragua’s Crisis Shows No Signs of Abating for FREE with your subscription to World Politics Review. Can Nicaragua’s Military Prevent a Civil War? The Nicaraguan Civil War is more commonly known as the Nicaraguan Revolution. And as The Grayzone revealed, USAID appears to be gearing up for another coup attempt against the Sandinista government under the auspices of a new program called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN). Perhaps the most egregious example is in China, where the government has used facial recognition technology to racially profile Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority that is concentrated in Xinjiang province, and forcibly lock them up in internment camps. The Nicaraguan Civil War of 1926–27, or the Constitutionalist War, broke out after a coup d'état by Emiliano Chamorro, a member of the Conservative Party, removed Nicaragua's democratically elected government, resulting in a rebellion by members of the Liberal Party. On this Feast Day of Our Lady of Mercy, I stand in solidarity with all defenders of human rights from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — and pray for the freedom of all political prisoners. The disturbing incident is just the latest example of a growing series of former “political prisoners” who have unleashed violent chaos in Nicaragua, aimed at destabilizing the leftist Sandinista government. 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Much of this violence has targeted women. A move of economic necessity, it also appeared to be another sign of President Daniel Ortega’s renewed confidence in power, despite international outcries over his government’s repression, which has resulted in 325 confirmed deaths and the arrests of more than 600 dissidents since last spring, among other abuses. Most of the convicts included in these lists were arrested during a violent coup attempt against Nicaragua’s elected Sandinista government in 2018. Civil War broke out in Nicaragua, and Manuel Antonio de la Cerda became its first dictator. Alianza Cívicaamnesty internationalComité Pro Liberación de Presos PolíticosDaniel OrtegafemicideFSLNHuman Rights WatchJeison Castro OrtezLuis AlmagroNicaraguaOASRosario MurilloRuth Aburto AcevedoSandinistasUSAID. After all, the former Marxist rebel, who overthrew a despised, corrupt regime back in the late 1970s and fought a U.S.-backed militia in the 1980s, has rewritten the constitution to make it possible to remain in power, while packing the courts and election boards and securing control of all the levers of power. US government-backed Nicaraguan NGOs and their sponsors among the European Union and Organization of American States have refused to comment on the crimes committed by the former “political prisoners” whose freedom they lobbied for. Other articles where History of Nicaragua is discussed: Nicaragua: History: This discussion mainly focuses on the history of Nicaragua since the arrival of Columbus in the late 15th century. P.S. Our latest WPR report provides a comprehensive look at how these state-of-the-art tools are being harnessed by different governments around the world. The Nicaraguan Civil War of 1926–27, or the Constitutionalist War, broke out after a coup d'état by Emiliano Chamorro, a member of the Conservative Party, removed Nicaragua's democratically elected government, resulting in a rebellion by members of the Liberal Party.The conflict came to an end after a military and diplomatic intervention by the United States resulted in the Peace of Tipitapa. [SPECIAL OFFER: Want to learn more? MANAGUA, NICARAGUA – A Nicaraguan right-wing extremist who was dubbed a “political prisoner” by a US government-funded NGO and subsequently freed under pressure by Washington has once again been arrested. 28 September 2020 ; Nicaraguan asylum seekers face hunger in Costa Rica or dangerous returns ... the Nicaraguan government address “structural tensions and problems” related to its disrespect for human rights and civil liberties. For years, activists, academics and watchdogs have characterized the spyware industry as out of control, with technology outpacing the laws designed to constrain the industry’s activities. We applaud @oas General Secretariat’s April 9 call for ​the government of #Nicaragua to release all political prisoners in light of ​#COVID19 . Though he has since insisted that Nicaragua has returned to “normal,” conditions have only gotten worse, and that slide will surely continue over the coming months without a mediated solution. For treatment of earlier periods and of the country in its regional context, see Central America. The fact that much of the violence carried out by right-wing criminals has been directed at women is a source of particular concern for the Nicaraguan government. The main purpose of the revolution was to overthrow the corrupt Somoza Dynasty who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 to 1979. Students in Nicaragua are expected to hold new protests today. 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