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Post by blindpig » Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:26 am

The release said strategy based on creating chaos and searching for a coup attempt is promoted and amplified by Nicaragua's opposition and corporate media.

On Monday, the European Committee of Solidarity with the Popular Sandinista Revolution released a statement denouncing the interference, by the opposition, in Nicaragua

"Nicaragua's coup plotter right-wing has used the reforms to the Instituto Nicaragüense de Seguridad Social (INSS) as an excuse to generate violence, destabilization and finally the overthrowing of the Sandinista government," the release declared.

Nicaragua has been thrust into an unprecedented socio-political turmoil since mid-April when protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against INSS reforms proposed by the government. The reforms, that would include a hike in employees' and employers' contributions to avoid raising the retirement age, was needed to stem a systemic financial crisis, the government indicated.

The announcement also pointed out that strategy based on creating chaos and searching for a coup attempt is promoted and amplified by the opposition and corporate media, "who are very powerful in Nicaragua, and whose role has been fundamental in exacerbating tensions," hinting at their support for acts of destabilization.

"This is a new attempt from the right-wing and U.S. imperialism against a sovereign and independent free nation and against it's democratically elected president, Daniel Ortega," read the announcement, referring to the demonstrations and other actions believed to be directed by opposition groups in the country.

These attempts to destabilize Nicaragua come from "the neoliberal governments, which are hegemonic, attack anyone who goes against them, for that reason the Ortega Executive and the Sandinista National Liberation Front is attacked frontally today," the European Committee of Solidarity with the Popular Sandinista Revolution, which comprises over a thousand activists in France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium, added.

Meanwhile, the United States is calling to increase pressure and sanctions on the Central American country. As several U.S. senators, for example, Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson urge President Donald Trump to impose new sanctions on the Nicaraguan Government for "corruption and human rights violations." Rubio has close ties with opposition forces in Nicaragua, having earlier this month met with student leaders involved in the protests.

In response, the Sandinista government has reiterated their dedication to dialogue and peace, "the commitment of all of us is to move forward, always with the people, constructing victories for the common good and for peace in Nicaragua," Vice President Rosario Murillo said.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:46 pm

The US & Nicaragua: A Case Study in Historical Amnesia & Blindness
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JUNE 15, 2018
Dan Kovalik

I was stunned the other day to see an opinion piece by Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe in which he was portraying the violent anti-government protests in Nicaragua as some kind of revolutionary insurrection. What is surprising about Kinzer’s position is that he is the individual who wrote the wonderfulbook, All The Shah’s Men– one of the essential readings about the CIA-backed coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953.

What is happening in Nicaragua right now looks a lot like what happened in Iran during this coup, and yet, Kinzer somehow does not see this. In this way, Kinzer typifies the utter confusion of so many in this country — including those who should know better, such as many self-described leftists — about what is happening in Nicaragua and in Latin America generally.

First of all, let us look at what Kinzer correctly describes as the tactics used by the CIA in overthrowing Mosaddegh and installing the Shah of Iran in his place. The main tactic was to organize, pay and direct violent street protesters to create a chaotic situation which would then provoke a violent response from the government – a response which could be used to justify the military’s moving in against Mosaddegh under the pretext of restoring order and democratic rule.

In All The Shah’s Men, Kinzer describes the days leading up the coup as follows:

The riots that shook Tehran on Monday intensified on Tuesday. Thousands of demonstrators, unwittingly under CIA control, surged through the streets, looting shops, destroying pictures of the Shah, and ransacking the offices of royalist groups. Exuberant nationalists and communists joined in the mayhem. The police were still under orders from Mosaddegh not to interfere. That allowed rioters to do their jobs, which was to give the impression that Iran was sliding towards anarchy. [CIA Bureau Chief Kermit] Roosevelt caught glimpses of them during his furtive trips around the city and said that they ‘scared the hell out of him.’

Kinzer explains that when this violence was not quite enough to provoke the desired crackdown by the government, Roosevelt sent the US Ambassador to Mosaddegh to trick him into using force against the rioters by claiming that this was necessary to protect Americans allegedly under attack in Tehran. Roosevelt knew that Mosaddegh, inevitably moved by the Iranians’ famous feelings of hospitality towards foreign guests, would have to act. And act he did, even going so far as to attack his own supporters in the interest of saving American lives, or so he was led to believe. The coup followed shortly thereafter.

But rather than restoring democracy to Iran, of course, the CIA, the Shah, and the dreaded SAVAK security and torture apparatus later set up by the CIA to keep the Shah in power destroyed Iranian democracy. Indeed, by the time of the insurrection against the Shah which ultimately toppled him in in February of 1979, Amnesty International described the Shah’s regime as having the worst human rights record in the world – quite a distinction.

The type of game plan run by the CIA in Iran, the very first of its kind, would be carried out again to topple progressive and nationalist governments in the future, most notably in countries like Guatemala in 1954 and Chile in 1973.

However, as one of the foremost experts on such covert ops, F. William Engdahl, explains, in the 1980’s, NGOs largely took over for the CIA in carrying out these operations. As Enghdahl relates:

During the Reagan Presidency very damaging scandals were becoming public about CIA dirty operations around the world. Chile, Iran, Guatemala, the top secret MK-Ultra project, the student movement during the Vietnam War to name just a few. To take the spotlight away from them, CIA Director Bill Casey proposed to Reagan creating a “private” NGO, a kind of cut-out that would pose as private, but in reality, as one of its founders the late Allen Weinstein said in a later interview to the Washington Post, “doing what the CIA did, but privately.” This was the creation of the NGO named National Endowment for Democracy [NED] in 1983. . . .

Hiding very black dirty anti-democratic CIA operations behind private political NGOs waving the banner of “Human Rights” has been very effective for Washington’s global agenda of toppling un-cooperative regimes around the world. In effect the CIA has weaponized human rights.

It was the NED which was critical in supporting and helping to organize the coup in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez in 2002, a coup which thankfully was short-lived. It is important to remember that the precipitating event of this coup was the shooting of protesters by snipers who were originally accused of being Chavistas, but who later turned out to be right-wing provocateurs. This is well-documented in the film, The Revolution Will Not be Televised.

Meanwhile, on July 19, 1979, shortly after the Shah was ousted in Iran, tiny Nicaragua had its own revolution, led by the Sandinistas, which toppled a brutal US-backed dictator, Anastasio Somoza.

As we know, the US, through the CIA, quickly moved against the Nicaraguan revolution, arming Somoza’s former National Guardsmen, organizing them into the Contras, and overseeing a brutal terrorist war against Nicaragua which destroyed the infrastructure and economy of Nicaragua, and which claimed the lives of 50,000 Nicaraguans. This is equivalent to 2.5 million deaths in the United States.

Finally, in 1990, the Nicaraguans, exhausted by the Contra war and economic strangulation, voted the Sandinistas out of power. In short, the US terror campaign succeeded according to plan.

The Sandinistas were in the wilderness until 2006 when Daniel Ortega was voted in as President once more. And while many on the left have criticized the older Ortega as having abandoned his revolutionary and socialist principles, a few points must be made about this.

First of all, while Ortega certainly has made concessions to the business community, the conservative political opposition and the Catholic Church, I would ask his detractors to explain just what choice he has had.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Hemisphere, was so before the Sandinistas took power in 1979, and was still so when they took power again in 2006. When the Sandinistas took power the first time, they inherited an economy wrecked and pillaged by Somoza, a country still left in shambles by the 1972 earthquake because Somoza siphoned off the aid money for himself instead of rebuilding, and a country further destroyed by Somoza who aerially bombed neighborhoods in Managua to cling to power. When the Sandinistas took power the second time, they inherited a country still struggling to recover from a decade of the brutal Contra war and by the accompanying economic embargo.

Meanwhile, the Sandinistas never even attempted to rid Nicaragua of the leading elements of the ancien régime (as Cuba did after its 1959 Revolution) with which they now must contend. This of course has made governing much more difficult and more radical reforms even more so. But if the Sandinistas had moved against these elements, such as the bourgeoisie and the Church, then they would be criticized even more than they are now for being repressive and anti-democratic.

And yet, there are some who argue that, somehow, the Sandinistas have failed by not building socialism in one country upon such a weak foundation, in a country with few natural resources and in the face of hostility from a much more powerful enemy in the United States. Never mind that such critics generally believe that socialism in one country is unachievable even in good conditions. In short, the Sandinistas are criticized for not achieving the impossible.

All of this recalls to mind the words of Michael Parenti in his wonderful article, “Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut”:

The pure socialists regularly blame the Left itself for every defeat it suffers. Their second-guessing is endless. So we hear that revolutionary struggles fail because their leaders wait too long or act too soon, are too timid or too impulsive, too stubborn or too easily swayed. We hear that revolutionary leaders are compromising or adventuristic, bureaucratic or opportunistic, rigidly organized or insufficiently organized, undemocratic or failing to provide strong leadership. But always the leaders fail because they do not put their trust in the “direct actions” of the workers, who apparently would withstand and overcome every adversity if only given the kind of leadership available from the left critic’s own groupuscule. Unfortunately, the critics seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country. . . .

To be sure, the pure socialists are not entirely without specific agendas for building the revolution. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, an ultra-left group in that country called for direct worker ownership of the factories. The armed workers would take control of production without benefit of managers, state planners, bureaucrats, or a formal military. While undeniably appealing, this worker syndicalism denies the necessities of state power. Under such an arrangement, the Nicaraguan revolution would not have lasted two months against the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution that savaged the country. It would have been unable to mobilize enough resources to field an army, take security measures, or build and coordinate economic programs and human services on a national scale.

Meanwhile, the Sandinistas, within the constraints of world capitalism as well as the immutable laws of physics, have done many positive things within the realm of the possible. Thus, they have done much to alleviate poverty in Nicaragua, to build homes for the poor, to successfully combat illiteracy and to bring a remarkable level of economic prosperity and stability to this once war-torn country. Even the New York Times recently acknowledged that “[m]any poor people who receive housing and other government benefits support” Sandinista President, Daniel Ortega.

Long-time Nicaragua solidarity activist, Chuck Kaufman, recently summarized these achievements, explaining that Daniel Ortega’s first action after being re-elected as President in 2006

was to end school fees, allowing 100,000 children into the schools whose poverty had kept them uneducated. This was rapidly followed by his administration building the free public health system into a robust institution that treated people rather than just wrote prescriptions that the patients were too poor to fill. The peasant agriculture sector was revitalized bringing hundreds of thousands up out of abject poverty, especially women and children.

Impoverished Nicaragua became one of the first countries in the world to achieve the UN Millennial Challenge to cut poverty in half by 2015. Along the way, the Ortega government achieved sustained economic growth of 5% and achieved labor stability through the famous Tripartite Model in which unions and big business negotiated semi-annual increases in the minimum wage with the government intervening when the two other parties couldn’t agree. The World Bank, IMF, and European countries all praised Nicaragua for its lack of corruption and effective use of grants and loans. Finally, Nicaraguan women’s participation in public and private affairs raised Nicaragua to one of the top four countries in the world for gender equality.

As a result of the foregoing, Nicaragua has been the only Central American country touched by the brutal wars of the 1980s not to be contributing to the recent mass migration to the US. Indeed, a May, 2016 DNC email released by Wikileaks explains, “Our neighbors in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are in a crisis of uncontrolled violence. Women and children from these countries are coming to our Southwest border in search of refuge. Essentially, no one is coming from Nicaragua . . . .”

In addition, Ortega has taken some very bold moves on the international stage, for example when he took in the deposed Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, after the 2009 coup, and when he offered for Miguel D’Escoto to serve as Libya’s Ambassador to the UN when Libya, in its death throes from the 2011 NATO bombing, had no UN representative. Ortega also stopped sending Nicaraguan troops to be trained at the School of the Americas (SOA) after meeting with SOA Watch founder, Father Roy Bourgeois.

And, up until the recent events in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega enjoyed sky-high approval ratings. Indeed, just several months before the current events rocking Nicaragua, Ortega had an astounding approval rating of nearly 80 percent!

Now, we are told, by such folks as Stephen Kinzer, Amy Goodman and by a number of “pure socialists,” that the people are suddenly rising up against President Ortega. And, some on the American left are arguing that we should welcome and support this uprising as a new stage of the Nicaraguan revolution which will finally bring true socialism to that poor, isolated country.

I believe that such commentators could not be farther from the truth. What is happening now in Nicaragua is not revolution, but in fact counterrevolution. And, this is no less true because there are some self-described leftists who are participating in and cheering on this uprising, just as Steven Kinzer tells us that a number of communists and socialists unwittingly supported the protests which unseated Mosaddegh in Iran.

Indeed, in an interesting article entitled, “My Contra Parents Are Marching For a New ‘Old’ Nicaragua: Are We, Too?”, Melissa Castillo expresses reasonable skepticism about the prevailing narrative surrounding the protests in Nicaragua:

Another suspicious aspect of this opposition is that it claims to include former Sandinistas who have now turned against Ortega because of his corruption. This is confusing because the opposition’s social media platform does not seem to consist of any socialist groups. The Sandinistas were built on socialism and the leaders at the time of the revolution were largely Marxists. A group involved in the opposition, for instance, is the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS). The MRS are Social Democrats who have partnered with a right-wing coalition in recent years in order to expand their base. By now, the MRS seems to have grown more centrist and devotes much of its platform to anti-Ortega rhetoric.

Leftists and Sandinista supporters may have legitimate concerns about Ortega, but that does not mean these are the same people joining forces with right-wingers and the U.S. government or appealing to the American public to “share” images of unrest on social media. I believe true leftist concerns include the concessions Ortega has made to the private sector in his economic policy, the power he has ceded to the church, his softening towards capitalist policies, and the increasing influence of Western international entities in public sector decision-making. It would not rationally be in the interest of leftists to join a coalition led by a private sector interested in pulling Nicaragua further to the right.

The impetus for the current demonstrations was Ortega’s April 16, 2018 announcement of very modest social security reforms designed to keep Nicaragua’s near-bankrupt social security system solvent past 2019. Ortega actually rejected the more drastic reforms demanded by the IMF and the business community, and then demonstrations began which the business community supported. But, to Castillo’s point, the business community wants more draconian cuts; it has obviously not supported the protests to advance progressive social change.

Moreover, it was college students who really moved the protests to a new level. But college students are not generally concerned about reforms to social security which will not affect them for decades.

As Barbara Moore, a long-time solidarity activist living in Nicaragua, explains in her, “Letter From Nicaragua: A Catastrophic Well-Orchestrated Event Is Occurring,”

On April 19 student-led protests began what the Mainstream media and international NGOs would describe as a pro-democracy uprising. Initially at issue were the social security reforms. For reasons no one has been able to explain, the students were highly agitated over the 1% rise in worker contributions, the 3.5% rise in employer contributions (over time) and a 5% cut in the benefit which was also a trade-off for expanded medical coverage. The alternate proposals rejected by the Ortega government and favored by the private sector COSEP and the IMF involved much greater cuts, raising the retirement age, cutting benefits completely (the little pensions) and the privatization of clinics.

Vietnam veteran and long-time peace activist, S. Brian Willson, who is currently in Nicaragua and who famously lost his legs on September 1, 1987 while sitting in on railroad tracks to block arms shipments bound for Central America, sent Barbara Moore’s letter to Popular Resistancewith a note which reads, in pertinent part: “This is a very good assessment of the orchestrated coup in Nicaragua. The author is a Gringo [sic.] who lives in Managua working at the Ben Linder house who happens to be stuck in Granada because we are under siege by many thugs armed I am sure with help of the US.” I note that I was in Nicaragua doing reforestation work and learning about the brutality of US foreign policy at the time Brian lost his legs in protest. His great sacrifice has had a huge impact on many of us, and I find it quite sad that the voices of people like Brian Willson are not being heard on the issue of Nicaragua at this critical time.

Meanwhile, what we do know is that one of the main student groups behind the current protests – the Civil Youth Movement (MCJ) “was created by and received funding from the National Democratic Institute (NDI)” — the NDI, in turn, being one of the three pillars of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which took over a number of covert operations for the CIA in the 1980’s. Indeed, between 2014 and 2017, the NED has given $4.2 million to opposition groups in Nicaragua for the purpose of “democracy promotion” (aka, “regime change”).

At the same time, there is no doubt that the protests, which began peacefully on April 17, accelerated due to violence and the great loss of life which has taken place since the protests began, with certainly over 100 people killed. However, there has been much disinformation about this violence both within Nicaragua and in the Western press.

First and foremost, whenever you see a tally of the deaths, all of the responsibility for them is laid at the feet of the Nicaraguan security forces even though members of the security forces themselves are included in the tally, as are government supporters and bystanders. Indeed, one of the first people killed in the protests was a police officer, and many have been killed since – some at their homes and even in their barracks after Ortega ordered the police off the streets. But you are never told this. You are also never told of the fact that, up until these very recent events, “Nicaragua’s community based policing, and their women’s police stations, specializing in domestic violence, were studied by police departments throughout the world and were famous for their record of positive community relations.”

My friends in Nicaragua tell me that what seems suspicious is that some of the student groups, armed as they immediately were with an arsenal of well-constructed weapons, were so obviously prepared in advance to start a violent uprising, and clearly used the opportunity of the protests against the social security reforms as a mere pretext to start and provoke violence. As one commentator explains, while “most of the media reports have portrayed the opposition groups and protestors as a ‘rag tag’ team of students, . . . examples of opposition violence, such as opposition use of ‘homemade mortars’ and ‘gas bombs’ as well as the burning of public buildings has received minimal coverage in the Western media.”

And, it was these well-armed protesters who became predominant two days after the protests began. As the independent media collective, Tortilla Con Sol, reported, “from April 19 onward, extremist opposition activists hijacked the student protests, attacking hospitals, government and municipal authority offices, public buildings of all kinds, university precincts and even the brand new national baseball stadium.”

Quite tellingly, the violent groups calling for Ortega to step down in the midst of his presidential term – despite the fact that he won re-election in 2016 with about 70% of the vote — have been attacking symbols of the Sandinista Revolution which overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Again, this reveals these groups to be more counter-revolutionaries than revolutionaries.

Another aspect of the violence which is largely being ignored is the strong evidence of snipers (remember the key role snipers played in the coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002) in carrying out precision killings which are then later blamed on the police.

Barbara Moore, citing the forensics described in a report by the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, explains:

The opposition claimed and continues to claim the National Police had used lethal and deadly force, firing indiscriminately into crowds with live ammunition. Yet that seems impossible given the forensics, nearly every fatality occurred in a precise, specific, even clean shot to the head, neck or chest. Not exactly what one would expect given the street battles filled with heightened levels of chaos or that when police do shoot to kill they are trained to aim for the mid-section.

The public, deceived by press reports, the international mainstream media and rightfully outraged over the killings continued over the following weeks to take to the streets. Almost always the same pattern repeated itself; more killed- always a male, despite the fact the early protests were well attended by females. The victims continued to be shot with incredible precision always in the head or neck, sometimes in the chest. These facts, incidentally corroborate government claims that snipers were responsible for the killings. As the death toll continues to rise this pattern has remained entirely constant.

This brings us full circle back to Stephen Kinzer’s piece in The Boston Globe. Kinzer begins this piece by describing a key incident which has further inflamed the situation in Nicaragua:

As a mass of unarmed protesters filed past Dennis Martínez Stadium in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 30, snipers inside the stadium began firing at them. That day’s casualties joined a list of about 100 dead and 1,000 wounded and missing in the last two months. Among those outraged was the person for whom the stadium is named. Dennis Martínez is the most celebrated of all Nicaraguan baseball players, immortalized by pitching a perfect game for the Montreal Expos in 1991.(emphasis added).

Kinzer then goes on to explain how Daniel Ortega is allegedly responsible for the violence that has been taking place in Nicaragua, and to criticize him for remaining “defiant” in his refusal not to step down from his elected office. Meanwhile, Kinzer neglects to mention how opposition groups ransacked the Dennis Martínez stadium.

What is remarkable about this piece — written by a man who literally wrote the book on the CIA’s manipulation of violence in unseating Iran’s Mohammad Mosaddegh — is that Kinzer does not even try to identify who these unnamed “snipers” were. And, while he makes a passing reference much later in his piece to alleged “paramilitary gangs” of Ortega, he does not attempt to connect them to this sniper firing at the stadium. In short, Kinzer glosses over the most important detail of the narrative, and that is because it is the most inconvenient one for him in his apparent crusade to urge Ortega’s resignation.

If these snipers are, as the Nicaraguan government claims, part of the violent opposition’s attempt to overthrow Ortega, then what is happening in Nicaragua must be seen in a very different light than what we are being told by the likes of Kinzer. And, this is the only logical conclusion. There simply is no incentive for the Nicaraguan government, over one month into the protests, to incite even more protest and opposition by firing into a crowd of demonstrators. This could only serve the interests of those waging the coup operation, and it indeed has served these interests quite well. Indeed, Kinzer himself rightly points this out, explaining that “[f]uneral marches balloon into new protests, and when they are attacked [again, we are not told by whom], the spiral intensifies.”

Ortega, who currently has the reins of government, has all the incentive for the status quo of peace and calm to return to Nicaragua, for this means he remains in his position as president. It is the opposition who needs a game changer – one which could only be brought about by dramatic events such as those that took place at the baseball stadium on May 30. But these realities do not seem to be worth considering by those like Kinzer who, ironically parroting the coup plotters who overthrew Mosaddegh, are pontificating in the press about the need to promote democracy by unseating an elected leader.

What all parties can certainly agree on is that the current events in Nicaragua are indeed calamitous, and becoming more so with each passing day. The economy has already suffered about $250 million in losses– a hefty sum for such a small country. And, this figure will surely climb as businesses, burned down by the violent opposition, do not re-open, and as tourism, a major source of national revenue, surely dries up. Indeed, just today, American Airlines announced that it is suspending flights to Managua as a result of the violence there.

No one in their right mind could wish any of this upon another nation – especially upon a nation which has suffered so much as Nicaragua. And I guarantee you that if Ortega is forced out of office by this violence, the result will not be, as some on the ostensible left would have us believe, a deepening of democracy and socialism. Rather, it will result in a return of the right- wing to power, an end to the social programs which have greatly benefitted the poor and the further destruction of the symbols and memorials of the very laudable Sandinista Revolution. The result, in other words, will be a counterrevolution. Anyone calling themselves a leftist, or even a humanitarian, must oppose such an end.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:41 pm

Salvadoran captured from Mara 18 and linked with protests against Ortega
by Contact Today - June 30, 2018

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Managua, Jun 30 (EFE) .- Nicaraguan authorities confirmed today the arrest of a Salvadoran member of the "Mara 18" when he tried to leave Nicaragua for Costa Rica for allegedly being linked to "terrorist activities" in the protests against the Government of Daniel Ortega.

The head of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance of the National Police, Luis Pérez Olivas, told official media that the Salvadoran, identified as Óscar Antonio Rivas Carrillo, alias "El Diablo", was hired "to participate in terrorist activities against the Government. of Nicaragua, for which he would receive the amount of 300 dollars a week ".

"They were ordered to obstruct vehicular traffic in different roads in the country, the murder of police, looting, destruction and burning of public buildings and private houses of interest, theft and burning of vehicles, as well as the destruction of the Hugo Chávez roundabout," in Managua, said Pérez Olivas.

According to the police chief, the alleged marero organized different groups "to execute these terrorist actions", mobilizing them in the departments of León, Chinandega, Managua, Carazo (Pacific) and Matagalpa (north).

According to the National Police, the detainee entered the "Mara 18" at the age of 17 along with his brothers Carlos David Martínez Carrillo and Ricardo Arnulfo Martínez Carrillo, both of whom died in clashes between gangs in Salvadoran territory.

He also participated in the murder of seven members of the "Mara Salvatrucha" and in different clashes with the Salvadoran police.

Nicaragua is going through a socio-political crisis that has left some 285 dead, according to figures from local humanitarian agencies, the bloodiest since 1980, with Daniel Ortega also as president.

The protests against President Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, began with failed social security reforms and became a demand for the resignation of the president, after eleven years in power, with accusations of abuse and corruption. against him. EFE

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Post by blindpig » Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:33 pm

Nicaragua: the United States threatens!
Communiqué of the International Commission of the PRCF - 7/7/2018

Most of the situation in Nicaragua is due to the official and clandestine actions of the US imperialists.

US imperialism clearly wants to overthrow patriotic governments in Latin America

That they are not perfect, that they sometimes carry a part of responsibility in the crisis is undeniable: if in Brazil Lula and the PT had the choice of the revolutionary way rather than that of the reformism, their situation would be, think- we, different from the point of view of popular support.

But our solidarity can only be total with countries and peoples who, because they are engaged in revolutionary processes, are at the mercy of the aggressions of the imperialist hydra. Any other attitude would be incomprehensible on the part of communists. In a support even critical there is the support: and that's what does not know, eg. Patrick Le Hyaric, Director of Humanity and MEP. The latter mégote his solidarity with Venezuela without the slightest concern to know what would become the relationship of world forces, already very degraded, between capital and labor, if the ALBA was not to be left behind by the socialist revolution, but liquidated on the right by imperialism and oligarchy.

Daniel Ortega and his people are attacked by imperialism, not because the Sandinistas would pursue an inconsistent policy from a progressive point of view, but because Nicaragua is in the ALBA alongside socialist Cuba, Bolivarian Venezuela or of Bolivia by Evo Morales.

And we, communists of the PRCF, express our unwavering solidarity and procrastination in the face of the opportunists who leave the ship in the storm and scream with the wolves or the dogmatists whose purism prevents us from seeing the essential: the popular movement and aggression that he is suffering from his enemies.

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Post by blindpig » Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:54 pm

They find in Church of Nicaragua violent disguised as nuns

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The families denounced that the Church hid weapons from extremist groups. | Photo: Canal 4 Nicaragua

Published 10 July 2018 (12 hours 17 minutes ago)

When the government forces liberated Jinotepe, the extremists took refuge in the Basilica. The people demanded that they open the temple, and found them disguised as religious.

The population of Jinotepe, head of the department of Carazo, in Nicaragua , denounced the open complicity of the Catholic Church in the wave of violence that has shaken the country since April 18 and has claimed hundreds of deaths and tortures, destruction of roads and entire populations kidnapped.

On July 9, the government liberated Jinotepe, where there were strong armed groups of opposition sectors that not only tortured Sandinista militants, but also had kidnapped nearly 400 Central American transporters.

The town was subjected for two months to situations of fear and violence. "They had us prisoners, they were carrying guns and we could not buy food," the villagers said.



4. Moments later, the Bishops of the Episcopal Coferencia arrived: "Murderous murderers, coupsters have enjoyed with all their deaths only for a power they will not have" the priests went to rescue the terrorists who hid in the #church #Jinotepe #Nicaragua pic.twitter.com/FjejfFAO93

- Madelein Garcia (@madeleintlSUR) July 10, 2018


Before the arrival of the security forces, some hit men hid in the Basilica of San Sebastian. The people of Jinotepe indignant concentrated demanding that they open the doors of the temple.

Moments later the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference arrived and the people received them with fury, interpreting that they were coming to rescue the violent groups that hid themselves.

"Assassins, coup leaders, have enjoyed all the deaths just for a power they will not have," the people intervened to the priests.

When the protesters managed to enter the Church, they met members of these violent groups disguised as nuns. The villagers expressed anger and outrage, because "the priests were hiding them and were complicit in what happened," says Alberto Mora, editor of the magazine En Vivo.

5. The people of #Jinotepe managed to enter the #church and guess what they found? To the terrorists disguised as nuns, yes, as they read it, disguised as nuns for that reason the fury and indignation, the priests were hiding them were accomplices of what happened pic.twitter.com/PYJmYJCsEs
- Madelein Garcia (@madeleintlSUR) July 10, 2018


The inhabitants denounced through social networks that members of the Catholic Church collaborated with the tortures and murders committed by the armed opposition. "In that department they concentrated with the greatest amount of weapons and the Church was the center of torture," says Madelein García, teleSUR correspondent in Nicaragua.

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They denounce complicity of Church with terrorists in Nicaragua

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This Saturday thousands of Nicaraguans marched for peace and security in the country. | Photo: EFE

Published 9 July 2018

Residents of Diriamba went to the Basilica Minor of San Sebastian and demanded that the parish priest remove the hidden weapons.

Inhabitants of the Diriamba municipality, in Carazo, Nicaragua , took to the streets to denounce the complicity of the Catholic Church and terrorist groups, which according to the demonstrators, kept the population hostage for weeks, preventing free movement.

Dozens of people went to the Minor Basilica of San Sebastian , where they demanded from the parish priest César Castillo the handing over of the temple that they claim was used to give shelter to violent groups.

A series of videos published in a local media show the inhabitants summoning themselves in front of the Church to demand the delivery of weapons hidden in the sanctuary.

"Let the weapons come out, let the father come out, we want the Church!" The villagers exclaimed.

#NicaraguaQuierePaz

Population diriambina cries out to the parish priest of the Basilica Minor de San Sebastián to take up arms. pic.twitter.com/T7clNi8pt4

- The 19 Digital (@ el19digital) July 9, 2018


In turn, this Monday the families of Diriamba received aa National Police that arrived in that municipality to accompany the residents in the restoration of tranquility, after weeks of terror.

Since April 18, Nicaragua has experienced a climate of violence promoted by extremist groups on the right, generated by a series of protests against a social security reform that was later overturned in pursuit of dialogue.

However, the violence continued and to date has left 214 dead, in addition to hundreds of injuries and material losses in public and private institutions.

The Episcopal Conference took the role of mediator in the dialogue tables between the Government and sectors of the opposition, established in May with the aim of restoring peace in the country. However, analysts argue that the Catholic Church has maintained a partial position in favor of the opposition, often urging civil disobedience.

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Que surprise...and while i'm sure JPII did a pretty through job purging Liberation Theology, at least in upper and middle ranks, I doubt the current 'papa' is uninformed as to his lieutenant's doings. Despite his moniker & PR once a Jesuit always a Jesuit, with all that baggage.
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Post by blindpig » Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:42 pm

Delinquents destroy valuable ancestral heritage on Ometepe Island
By: Ariel Ortiz || Posted: July 10, 2018 || Time: 4:43 pm.

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During the early hours of Monday, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, criminal groups enemies of peace entered the Ometepe Museum to destroy and steal important pieces of pre-Columbian origin .

It should be noted that the main objective of these offenders is to take the facilities of the municipal mayor's office that is precisely on the east side of the museum.

Mayra Ortíz, in charge of the museum, lamented these acts of vandalism , where valuable archaeological pieces of great cultural importance were destroyed by these subjects whose identities are being investigated by the National Police , through their specialized experts.

"They came to my house to tell me that the museum had deteriorated in the archaeological pieces , I came to the museum and found out that four pieces were missing. That was during the night, some pieces were broken in the streets and others here, "said the person in charge of the museum.

Ortiz explained that the destruction was of three funerary urns, an archaeological piece that our ancestors used for everyday life and part of rock art.

The destruction to the historical patrimony is condemnable , the ancestral pieces are of great meaning because they represent the culture of our ancestors. This museum has attracted tourists from all over the world and researchers who carry out work based on these pieces.

"It's a pity that vandalism people come to destroy our culture because it's important, where the children are going to do their research and that's what hurts the most they destroy. I make a call to those people who reflect, who seek God and who do not walk doing these things, "said the manager of the museum.

These acts that also interrupted the peace of the families, occurred during the constant siege that financed groups have maintained for several days in the vicinity of the municipal mayor's office.

The families in the Ometepe Island all they ask for is peace and above all the security of being able to move peacefully in the oasis of peace.

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This is all part of the effort to destroy the social aspirations of the Nicaraguan people. Isla Ometepe is a major tourist attraction and source of hard currency, as is the tourist industry generally. The business class which is responsible for all of the upheaval should be rounded up for questioning.
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Post by blindpig » Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:12 am

Nicaragua is now the target
U.S. organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID have meddled in other countries’ affairs since their founding at the height of the Cold War

Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | informacion@granmai.cu

july 13, 2018 09:07:48

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Young people in Nicaragua have been victims of media and political manipulation. Photo: www.elpreg.com
Masked individuals, armed with homemade mortars and bazookas, block avenues, close the main streets, attack state institutions, burn tires, start fires, loot and kill.

To date, approximately 170 people have died as a result of the chaos and violence in Nicaragua. A powerful media campaign follows the events and more than that, openly promotes, falsifies, and multiples them.
The violent acts are presented as peaceful demonstrations by students, and the press publishes photos of those supposedly killed by the Sandinista government, but just as the truth will come out, the deception is discovered. Several have complained, demonstrating that the supposed dead are actually alive. One young man who resides abroad returned to state as such before the cameras, but of course this was not reproduced by the mainstream media.

U.S. author, journalist, and blogger Max Blumenthal recently published an article noting that a group of activists opposed to the current Nicaraguan government went to meet with leaders of Freedom House in Washington D.C. According to Blumenthal, the opposition group known as M-19, “were there to beseech Donald Trump and other right-wing U.S. government officials to help them in their fight against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.”

The links between U.S. organizations and the events underway in Nicaragua and other parts of the world are clearly revealed in Blumenthal’s piece: “The NED (National Endowment for Democracy) is a leading agent of U.S. soft power that has meddled in other countries’ affairs since its founding at the height of the Cold War, in 1983.” And the author cites Allen Weinstein, a founder of the NED, in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

The budget with which the NED operates comes from the United States Congress, which grants it millions of dollars every two years, as part of the State Department budget. The organization also receives donations from four associations: the Smith Richardson Foundation, the John M. Ohin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and Freedom House, indirectly funded by federal contracts.

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Masked individuals, armed with homemade mortars and bazookas block the streets and incite violence in Nicaragua. Photo: www.telemetro.com

The money is distributed to the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), the American Center for International Labor Solidarity of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), affiliated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which in turn distribute monetary and material resources to other organizations in the U.S. and around the world, and disburse money and materials for opposition organizations in countries whose governments are not to the liking of the U.S. government.

The report from this U.S. journalist identifies the culprits: “Aside from NED, USAID has been the most active promoter of regime change against socialist-oriented governments in Latin America. In Nicaragua, USAID’s budget topped $5.2 million in 2018, with most of the funding directed towards training civil society and media organizations.”

This is the same USAID that used funds from the Alliance for Progress, a U.S. “economic aid,” “political” and “social” program, a kind of Marshall Plan and the first big attempt to halt the prospect of revolution in Latin American and isolate Cuba, and finance repression. Instead of engineers, technicians, and skilled workers, USAID trained unscrupulous police, soldiers, paramilitaries, torturers, and killers; instead of factories, farms, and schools, detention and torture centers were built.

Let’s not forget that this is also the same USAID that financed the training of death squads, promoted “health” programs that concealed inhumane sterilization processes in Central America, and collaborated with CIA narco agents in the Iran-Contra operation.

USAID has created an extensive network on our continent, which attracts cadres, manufactures leaders, and penetrates civil society. A true interventionist army of “experts,” “advisors” and “consultants,” working to develop its subversive plans. In its first ten years alone, the NED distributed more than 200 million dollars in 1,500 projects to support so-called “friends of America.”

Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Iran, and Venezuela; wherever there is a government that goes against the interests of the United States, these generously financed experts in destabilization and chaos swiftly act.

Mercenaries, delinquents, hirelings of the “Soft Coup,” of the “Color Revolutions,” or other “revolutions” with eye-catching and peaceful names, designed in Langley’s laboratories, such as the Rose Revolution, Tulip Revolution, Orange Revolution, or known by names closer to reality such as the Bulldozer Revolution in Serbia; where the purchase of uncritical consciences and deception, seduction through the use of attractive concepts for young people, and a lot of money, all the money that is necessary, are the soldiers and weapons of this new war. And of course, Nicaragua is now the target.

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Post by blindpig » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:06 pm

Armed violence in Nicaragua: an imported product (research)

The manner in which the destabilization forces have been demonstrating in Nicaragua in recent months must be framed in a region where armed and paracriminal violence represented in bands like Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle 18 (M18), which they have mutated from street gangs to perform at middle levels of organized crime, they serve as pawns in the defense of the international drug trafficking industry. Winning the Nicaraguan territory, oblivious to the paramilitary control of its institutions, to the cause of drug trafficking and its criminal derivatives, becomes part of the motives to press for regime change in the country.

Transnational origin of Central American gangs

The gangs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, nations located in what is known as the Central American North Triangle, are the result of countries altered by the fate of banana republics that the United States determined in order to feed its superpower status.

During the armed conflicts of the 70s and 80s, more than 1 million people emigrated as a result of the bloody wars in Central America, where the United States played a key role in the financing of mercenary groups; let's remember the Contra, to avoid the arrival to power, or the consolidation in the case of Nicaragua, of alternative governments. That is the main cause that would determine the bulk of the contemporary history of Central America, where the violence of the 70s is united, in the same way, in the same plan, with the terrible wave of violence that currently plagues Nicaragua.

Returning to forced emigration. Those who took as their destiny the north of the American continent, forced to clandestinization, were trained in the practices of common crime, vandalism and drug trafficking as a survival response to everyday violence. In the year 1996 the massive deportation of immigrants was implemented in the United States . As a result, 200,000 citizens, a quarter of them imprisoned for being related to the gang culture, were transferred to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

There begins the transnationalization of the Maras, one of the most famous social forms of a broad spectrum of criminality. Violent groups absorbed local gangs and imported codes of a more organized level of criminal violence, with the additive of a flow of illegally acquired weapons in the border states of the United States.

In this context, there is the triumph and development of the Sandinista revolution, which faces its own condition, or fatality, as seen, at the geopolitical level: being in the drug trafficking corridor that travels from the Andes to the large markets of the American cities. The ideological approach with which Nicaragua deals with the penetration of criminal gangs is contrasted with the solutions put under pressure by the Drug Control Agency (DEA) and applied in the countries of the Northern Triangle, decimated by the MS-13 and the M18.

The Nicaraguan State has confronted less violent local gangs, through an articulation between the national security forces and the citizens, forming community vigilance groups and achieving the early identification and demobilization of agents of chaos in neighborhoods and localities, in order to de-escalate violence in the country. The result is so evident that no global organizations have been able to deny the exceptionality with its border neighbors: Nicaragua is known as the safest country on the planet.

However, the strengthening of the Maras in the weak state structures of the Northern Triangle, which became professionalized, expanding their participation in activities of extortion, organized crime and the trafficking of drugs and people, has intensified in the country the import of cells linked to the regional gang. Lugareños de Soto and San Lucas, border towns with Honduras, suffer the intervention of these bands in their daily lives.

The arrest in 2017 of Sergio Umaña, alleged leader of MS-13, accused of money laundering and international drug trafficking , is the most prominent antecedent of a series of arrests in border departments of Nicaragua that confirm the acquisition of properties and logistical resources , as well as the intentions of establishing cells of the organization in that country.

Tortures, fires and murders: emulation of paramilitary cells

Now, with the emergence of the apparently peaceful demonstrations in April 2018, using the color revolution model as a line of action to force a regime change, the link of the intellectual operators with paramilitary groups that escalate the conflict to a higher level of political violence. While they are taking and securing territories using chaos, the initial media campaign to cover the violent groups with the civic mantle launders the people involved in the events and awards them to the government of Daniel Ortega.

In Venezuela, for example, the color coup plan was managed with the support of the Colombian paramilitaries, especially in the hot spots of the guarimba in the border states such as Táchira and Zulia. In Nicaragua, it is the gangs and Maras constituted in the neighboring countries that come to the call of the transnational interests. It is precisely his way of operating, which suggests his authorship in the horror trail of the more than 170 fatalities that have resulted in the ongoing irregular war.

The similarities in the ways of acting of the criminal groups in the development of the Nicaraguan conflict and the gang cells in border regions, are observed in the use of selective assassinations, extortion, business looting, control of communication channels and extortion to the citizenship. The modus operandi that identifies them.

The denunciations made from the Twitter account of the journalist Madelein García, are testimonies of the forms of torture that violent groups use to inflict damage on the population.

Kidnapping and gagging the victims to beat them, threatening them with death and recording the actions that they later spread on social networks, evoke the terror tactics that paramilitary bands apply in other countries. At the end of last year, MS-13 members recorded and then published on social networks the torture and subsequent murder of a minor, a case that not only impacted public opinion but also served as propaganda for the MS-13 it will be projected above the police capacity of the Salvadoran authorities.

In different departments, which suffer harassment from these agents outside the community, have betrayed these groups that, with the indulgence of representatives of the political opposition, non-governmental organizations and the Catholic Church, take control of communication channels, impose a state of siege, looting small businesses and extorting the inhabitants.

In León, in the northwestern department of Nicaragua, there has been the presence of hooded and armed groups , which appear in the protests called and open fire on the demonstrators.

The imposition of national strikes as a measure of pressure was a strategy used by the gangs in 2015 against the Salvadoran government, which forced a transport stoppage, threatening to kill anyone who challenged them. In addition, the calls to block the streets and set up barricades have worked in Nicaragua. In Madriz, the FSLN denounces that extremist actors associated with the opposition leadership have threatened and extorted the population with firearms in the face of their refusal to join the barricades to paralyze the country.

The intimidation, incorporating the language of war in the environment of Nicaraguans, is carried out in the insertion in the territory of these non-regular armies destined to the change of political power.

Producing confusion between attackers and triggers of the conflict is also part of the tasks of paramilitarism in the municipality of Yalaguina. They arrested three armed men who were roaming a blockade made by opponents, one of them of Honduran nationality and possibly related to the Mara in his country.

The selective murder of people who feed the confrontation of the opposition groups and the discrediting of the dialogue processes convened by the Nicaraguan State alternate with the maintenance of internal vandalism that contains, through the establishment of terror, the organization of the communities that have reestablished normality in their localities.

This is the case of Mayasa, western department that was under siege by the armed bands for two months, and today, released from these, relate the neighbors of the site.

The outbreaks of violence, greater in the central and northern regions of the country, increased dramatically in June, with an increase in hired assassinations of members of the security forces, leaders of political movements, public institutions and social organizations, as well as as in the case of fires at homes, schools and hospitals.

The peak of the attacks was concentrated in the east of the capital of Managua, when on the same day the death of 7 people was recorded, including two minors, as a result of the fire of a family home caused at dawn on the 16th of June for violent groups, and the murder during the day of Francisco Ramón Araúz Pineda and Antonio Fernández, who were trying to cross a barricade .

Araúz was also incinerated by terrorists while recording the action. As of June 21, the Unified Firefighters Corps, accounted for 54 structural fires, 30 of them caused by hooded vandals.

Underhand interests on the international stage
The private media, which leads the events to the victimization of violent operators, spreading accusations without clear evidence and taking advantage of the terrorist fatality, appeals to the ignorance of its international spectators to position the narrative of the violation of human rights in the country by part of government institutions. But the minimum immersion in the chain of events that damaged an exemplary region in the area of ​​national security makes it impossible to associate the government that directed the policies to isolate the criminalization of the country that the United States imposed in Central America.

That state of permanent horror, which in Nicaragua is a parenthesis to the normality that Sandinista social movements began in the 1990s in their territory, is the daily scourge of the nations bordering it, and that propagandists of Western democracy are omitting.

The political violence of the 70s and 80s became the criminal violence of the gangs under the protection or disinterest of corrupt sectors of the States. 52 murders in a single day was the most lethal figure in El Salvador in 2015. 7,172 homicides were the annual balance of 2012 in Honduras. A historic day for Guatemala, which has a rate of 75 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants (three times the annual average of the region), is that they spend 24 hours without any murder occurring. Transferring the criminal configuration of this triangle, to contribute to the overthrow of Daniel Ortega, is a matter of financing the appropriate vassals.

They return to memory Syria and Libya, remote in distance, but close in the intentions of the factual power to dismantle the States of the peripheral countries, a political project that knows no borders and that adapts to the territorial and cultural characteristics of the site the one who attacks. The cards, called Islamic State or Mara Salvatrucha, built in Balkanized zones, are functional to the chaotization of territories and have the potential to act as non-state actors in the increasingly urgent, and less effective pretensions of the Western world order to be established a state of global exception.

Exactly, with the massive deportation of the 90s, the syncretism with criminal violence in the United States, the mega drug trafficking plaza that was consolidated in Los Angeles with its respective umbilical cord in Central America and the transformation of the Central American precarious by the armed conflict in a worker of the drug trafficking industry, sat the pillars to decapitate, at the right time, the countries that still resist being a maquila or that place dikes to the drug trafficking routes on which the United States depends, both its government and his sick and destroyed population.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:48 pm

Armament and destruction in UNAN-Managua, evidence of the criminality of terrorists

Published on Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 5:59 p.m.

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At the request of the authorities of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua ( UNAN-Managua ), the National Police showed the destruction, looting and part of the weapons that the terrorists and criminals who had taken this alma mater had.

Within the destruction carried out by these terrorist groups that had occupied for weeks the university is the Child Development Center (CDI) Arlen Siú , which was burned ; a student residence was also destroyed, areas such as the legal office, the transport office, central administration offices, accounting, finance office, treasury, vice-rector offices were destroyed and looted; there was also destruction in the laboratories of the Polisal, classrooms, among other places.

Large amount of food, medicine, condoms, cigarette butts and alcohol of all brands, were found in different sectors of the university.

In addition, motorcycles and vehicles that had been stolen to later be disarmed, are part of the evidence found in the scene that demonstrates the conscious destruction they did.

The building of the Polisal was intended as a torture room, so they placed it with signs that they placed on the doors.

Names, telephone numbers of doctors, certificates, nicknames, banners referring to the link to the Mara19, are some of the evidence on the site.

Linda Ramírez, adviser to the university, said that "today the national police is doing the pertinent investigations to be able to establish how much the damages caused to the institution do."

"The university, according to the researches, will continue to investigate and hold those who did all this accountable because there is a great impact on the university, not only on the infrastructure but also on the impact it has on the classes."

"We found pavilion 2, ten mortars, launches mortars, handcrafted bombs, miguelitos, weapons of industrial manufacture, ammunition," said Ramírez.

Green areas could have explosives
The legal representative of the UNAN-Managua, stressed that there is no access to green areas to be covered with explosives.

"We have well-founded reason that in the parts of green areas there could be explosives since today we had an incident in which there was an explosion and that makes us indicate the presence of explosives," he concluded.

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