US official casts doubt on Nicaraguan government's commitment to fair elections

Source: By Associated Press

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) _ The U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua has released a statement criticizing the country's delays in accrediting election observers, saying it places in doubt the fairness of upcoming municipal balloting.

A statement by State Department spokesman Robert Wood — and a second declaration issued by a group of former presidents from the Americas — also criticize Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's vocal attacks on critics.

Ortega's government has come under fire for barring two opposition parties from fielding mayoral candidates in the Nov. 9 election, and for police raids against non-governmental organizations. ...

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"People who live in glass voting booths shouldn't throw stones"?

:eyes:
rocknation

You can trust them to be ¨lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable, and stupid¨.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

US to have taken this stand.

just. Wow.


Pot calling the kettle black.

A lot of nice people died.

Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience?

By Chris Floyd

11/07/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Ortega back in power, early poll results show

From the Guardian: The Sandinista leader and former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega appeared to have mounted a spectacular political comeback last night after preliminary results showed he had won Nicaragua's presidential election in the first round. Mr Ortega led by a margin which seemed wide enough to avoid a run-off and to deliver a stinging rebuke to Washington, which had openly campaigned against him...Roberto Rivas, the head of Nicaragua's top electoral body, said the vote was clean and transparent. An army of 17,000 observers, including the former US president Jimmy Carter and EU officials, was expected largely to endorse that view.

Ortega ran and won with the backing of several prominent ex-Contras, including Jamie Morales, his own running mate. Morales had been the Contras' spokesman in Washington during the Reagan years when, with the direct involvement of VP George Bush, the Administration joined hands with the mullahs of Iran and the druglords of Central and South America to fund, arm and train a terrorist army to overthrow the Sandinista government. Although this exercise in mass state terrorism failed on the battlefield, the Reagan-Bush policy of economic terror managed to reduce Nicaragua to dire poverty, with the open threat that the stranglehold would go on until the Sandinistas were gone.

Of course, the stated reason for the Reagan-Bush hatred of Ortega was that he was an evil Commie tyrant and dictator who opposed democracy. However, oddly enough, when a majority of Nicaraguans bowed to the American blackmail in 1990 and voted against Sandinistas, these evil, anti-democratic Commie tyrant dictators....left office. They obeyed the obviously coerced but democratically expressed will of the people. And now, Ortega -- no shining knight but, in the end, a rather typical politician eager for power but with at least an inclination toward mitigating some of the most pernicious effects of predatory crony capitalism -- has been returned, democratically, to power...without "robocalls," without "push-polls," without strangely malfunctioning voting machines that only make "mistakes" in favor of one party, with "voter roll purges," etc. etc.

What will happen now? It's obvious: the Bush II administration -- which is clotted with many of the same Constitution-hating state terrorists who threw in with druglords and Islamic extremists during the Contra War -- has already announced its intention to resume the old economic terrorism against the wretchedly poor people of Nicaragua. American officials stated plainly that trade restrictions and cutbacks, if not cut-offs, in U.S. aid were in the cards if the Nicaraguans exercised their democratic rights in favor of the Sandinistas. They even sent Oliver North down to tour the country before the election -- the clearest possible signal for the rabble to get in line, rather like having Frank Nitti drive through the neighborhood to remind the shopkeepers to pay up their protection money to Al Capone.

More:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15538.htm

have been stolen due to Republican fraud in Florida and Ohio, what should we be thinking about? Hmmm ... tough one ... luckily we have Robert Wood to tell us that right now we should be concerned ... about Nicaragua :eyes:

You'd think these dirty rotten torturers and slaughterers of one million people to get their oil, and destroyers of the world economy, would shut the fuck up, and sneak out of town, holding their breaths until they are safely out of the country, and their bank accounts with them.

But no, they're picking on Nicaragua, and over...

:rofl:

....oh, I'm dying here...

FAIR ELECTIONS!

But it may not be as weird as it seems.

I've been keeping track of what may be a Bushwhack war plan in South America, to instigate fascist secessionist movements in three countries--Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador*--to split off the oil rich provinces into fascist mini-states, to restore global corporate predator control of the oil. This civil war plan has been raging in Bolivia over the last month, when, finally, Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, threw the U.S. ambassador out of Bolivia, for colluding with the fascist secessionists. The fascist violence soon stopped (--riots, machine-gunning of 30 unarmed peasants, sacking government and NGO buildings, blowing up a gas pipeline), and UNASUR (the new South American "Common Market"--sans the U.S.) was able to step in and broker a peace.

The thing is, Bolivia is landlocked and surrounded by leftist friends and allies in the leaders of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. I'm not sure the Bushwhacks were all that serious about trying to split off Bolivia's gas and oil rich provinces. It may have been a test case, or a distraction. But Venezuela's richest oil province, Zulia (a hotbed of fascist activity) is a different story. It sits on the Caribbean--a coastline now harried by the newly reconstituted U.S. 4th Fleet--adjacent to Colombia (Bush Cartel client state, with $6 BILLION in U.S. military funding, and rife with rightwing paramilitary death squads, Blackwater and other mercenaries, U.S. special forces, and the dreadful Colombian military). Zulia may look like a "sitting duck" to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. (Rumsfeld urged "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America--in a WaPo op-ed in Dec 07. I think he is involved in war planning in South America). And all this is very likely why Hugo Chavez invited Russia to naval maneuvers in the Caribbean, as a warning off to the Bushites in their waning months in office. He close ally, Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, has said that the 4th Fleet also threatens Brazil's coastal oil reserves. Lulu proposed a common defense, in conjunction with UNASUR, but it is not in place yet. Meanwhile, Chavez has to guard the northern flank of the their new "Common Market" (Zulia) and its rich oil fields.

If the U.S. were to successfully instigate a civil war in Zulia--a move that would be easier to mount and defend than grabbing the Bolivia's secessionist provinces--it could guarantee oil shipments to the U.S., cripple Venezuela, and use the oil to bully and bludgeon all the little countries of the Caribbean and Central America, including Nicaragua and Cuba--many of which are now receiving low cost or barter oil from Venezuela. The goal would be to create a leftist-free zone in this region, as a buffer against the leftist democracies to the south and their new "Common Market." Honduras--of all countries (once the Reaganite staging area for death squads into Nicaragua and El Salvador)--recently punched the Bushwhacks in the nose, and joined ALBA, the barter type Bolivarian trade group started by Venezuela. El Salvador will likely elect a strong leftist early next year. Guatemala elected its first progressive government, ever, this year, which is in sympathy with Bolivarian social justice goals. And Mexico came within a hairsbreadth (0.05%) of electing a strong leftist a couple of years ago.

The leftist democracy movement is spreading north. Will the Bushwhacks try to staunch it before they leave office--and leave Obama with another of their goddamn bloody messes? For the fairly certain result will be permanent alienation between the northern and southern halves of this hemisphere. And neither Chavez, nor the Lulu, nor the Kirchners in Argentina, nor, indeed, any of all these leftist governments is going to let the U.S. grab Venezuela's oil without a fight. They were unanimous in backing the Morales government in Bolivia against Bushwhack fomented civil war. They will likely strongly back Venezuela in such a fight.

I think it is not at all a farfetched notion that we could be in state of war with South America before the year is out. Perhaps this is what Biden was talking about the other day--that Obama will be tested by other countries, and that we will have to trust them on some "unpopular decisions." I have little doubt that there are a number of "Gulf of Tonkins" out there waiting to be triggered by Bush Cartel plants in the military. And the Bushwhacks have destabilized conditions in many places, and have totally fucked up our relations with other countries.

As with their intense psyops campaign against Chavez (tagging him as a "dictator")--a campaign that they have now extended to the presidents of Bolivia and Ecuador (the three targeted countries*), they seem to be laying some ground work against Ortega in Nicaragua, which could be related to the Zulia plot. Zulia's oil coast is not far from Nicaragua. Also, Nicaragua is the leader in that region as to leftist policy. They would be the first government in the Caribbean/Central American region that the Bushwhacks would want to smash, if they were going to move on Zulia, and try to re-establish U.S./Fascist rule in that region.

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*(This is the president of Ecuador, not me. He stated publicly that there is a three-country plot to split off the oil rich provinces of Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, into fascist secessionist states. He purged his military and intelligence agency of "CIA spies" after the U.S./Colombia bombing raid on his country earlier this year. And the new Constitution of Ecuador--just passed by a huge vote of the people, nearly 70%--requires the expulsion of the U.S. military from its base in Manta, Ecuador, which will occur early next year. The pending loss of that base could be setting the time-table for a move against Zulia, which could also possibly net Ecuador's rich oil fields as well--creating a leftist-free zone and a zone of U.S. hegemony from the northern Ecuadoran oil fields, across Colombia and the hump of South America, to the northern oil fields of Venezuela on the Caribbean.)

Oct 25, 1:18 AM EDT
Bolivia alleges US role in violent jungle clash

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- A top Bolivian official on Friday accused the United States of backing armed anti-government groups in a violent jungle clash that left 15 people dead last month, including 13 supporters of leftist President Evo Morales.

Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said that Bolivia would "denounce before the entire world" that the U.S. had "participated in the massacare" on Sept. 11 in the remote Amazonian province of Pando.

Quintana did not provide any evidence for the charge or elaborate on what he meant by the word "participate," alleging only that the U.S. "accompanied the criminal policies" of Pando's opposition governor, Leopoldo Fernandez, who has since been jailed for allegedly fomenting the violence.

Quintana also accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of unspecified "direct involvement" in the province.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_BOLIVIA_US_VIOLENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-25-01-18-34



Latin American leaders standing by Evo Morales May 23, 2008 at the UNASUR summit in Brazilia. So glad to learn Fernandez de Kirchner and Lula da Silva strongly informed the white racist separatist leaders in the Half Crescent of Bolivia that they would NOT be doing business with them, and never with any Bolivian leader who was not legally elected as President. Too bad _{George W. Bush} won't take that honorable position regarding South American leaders. He only does business with the white racist oligarchs in the countries you mentioned, who conspire with him to overthrow their elected Presidents.