Nicaragua’s blanket of repression
The lesser evil known as Joe Biden has continued the same policy implemented by Ronald Reagan and continued by Donald Trump against Nicaragua under the same pretext of the fear of communism in a society based on the capitalist mode of production. The Sandinista Revolution was the continuation of the capitalist revolt of Sandino The us war against Central America has not stopped
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Nicaragua’s blanket of repression
The Ortega-Murillo regime has betrayed the legacy of the Sandinista Revolution and makes a US-led neoliberal takeover more feasible, argues Mike Phipps. A Labour Hub long read.
The latest bulletin from the UK’s Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group expresses alarm at the continued – perhaps increased – hostility of the US Administration towards Nicaragua. It reports:
“On 22nd November President Biden signed an Executive Order stating that Nicaragua still poses an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States’. In doing so Biden repeated a designation that began under the last Trump presidency. It also has echoes of an identical 1986 Executive Order by President Ronald Reagan at the height of the contra war.”