Posted on 07/14/2018 8:40:20 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The privation in the northern triangle—Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador—that has sent thousands of migrants to the U.S. border in search of work and a better life is ultimately the result of failed institutions.
The bloody upheaval in Nicaragua is another case in point. Since April 19 more than 300 people have been killed while protesting against strongman Daniel Ortega. The U.S. Treasury last week imposed sanctions on three Ortega henchmen—the national police commissioner and a Sandinista Youth official for human-rights violations, and the head of Nicaragua’s state-owned oil company for corruption.
Central America is strategically important, and Russia’s role is particularly notable. It has a large and secretive satellite compound at the edge of the Nejapa lagoon on the outskirts of Managua, and its Interior Ministry has a large “police training center” in the capital’s Las Colinas neighborhood. The Soviet Union was an Ortega ally in the 1980s, and Russia today has every incentive to help him prosper as a dictator.
Venezuelan oil largess boosted his might from the start...He was said to be helping the poor while he shared the spoils of his power grab with the business community. He has also made Russia feel at home.
Citizens are being indiscriminately gunned down by Ortega police and trained paramilitaries. At a Mother’s Day march May 30, called to show solidarity with victims’ families, 15 people were killed by snipers using Russian Dragunov rifles...
Russia knows how to put down rebellions. The Soviets did it in Cuba in the 1960s for Fidel Castro by quashing the uprising in the Escambray mountains. The Nicaraguan city of Masaya was an opposition stronghold until Mr. Ortega called in police reinforcements from Managua on June 19 and took it back.
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Russia....again.
This message is brought to us by the “Deep State”?????
“Russia....again.”
Yep, the communist tentacles always looking for a “sh!thole” country/situation to assert and gain influence. It is what they do.....
We engineered the overthrow of governments in Cairo, Damascus, Libya, Kiev etc ad nauseum. If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn't be the mess it is now.
So you really think the Russians are our friends?
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As long as they aren’t spreading communism I really don’t care. Let them knock themselves out.
Are the EU our friends?
“The Soviet Union was an Ortega ally in the 1980s”
As were Tom Harkin and John Kerry.
The sanctions aren’t stiff enough. All govt officials should be banned from travel to the US and their US assets frozen. Hit them where it hurts. Seize all those condos in Miami.
John McCain backs opposition leaders telling Ukraine protesters: ‘America stands with you - Ukraine will make Europe better’
They are not the demon. They are “competitors” as heck I’ve heard the likes of GW Bush speak of China.
It seems to me some of GW’s followers out there are forgetting what he said about a pretty nasty nation-China.
Saudi Arabia also is an authoritarian state yet their oil and energy resources cancel out the truth about a theocracy where women still are very second class. They can drive a car but...
Nor do I.....
Since the article mentions Honduras and I have a family member from there who still has family there, I can't see what that country has to offer the Russians (other than fruits and vegetables) that they would want to butt heads with the drug cartels that now control the country.
The title could have just as easily read “America in Central Europe / Central Asia / Eastern Asia / Arctic Ocean. Again.” War is a racket, and racketeers are always scheming for it.
russian guns....probably an array of Fast & Furious cannons....
“Since April 19 more than 300 people have been killed while protesting against strongman Daniel Ortega”
And where is the Saintly Left on this?
Ortega was their new Che.
How right they were. Just another Spaniard Mass Murderer, putting down Los Gusanos who were impudent enough to criticize him.
But what does the world say of this?
Crickets.
When Communists kill people, it’s a regrettable necessity according to them.
“If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn’t be the mess it is now.”
And exactly what form, and when exacrtly, would that “concentrated on Central America” efforts have taken place, without them being characterized as “meddling” by the political classes in Central America, or as corrupt crony-capitalist thanks from them, without any domestic improvements therein??
Foreign influence in small countries is easier to come by from nations far away, over any big giant neighbors, as faraway foreigners are more often seen as less likely to try to dominate them than the big giant neighbor. For instance we are viewed with less suspicion in many small nations of Asia than is their neighbor China. Rejection of the big neighbor is sort of natural and not necessarily related to the politics of that neighbor.
You apparently do not read Ms O’grady much, or you’d know that her exoertise across Latin America has always been as a critic of and outside the “deep state”. She always hits the nail on the head with what is going on in Latin America and very often what is going on with our deep state’s involvment in shenanigans there. Her biggist criticism is our deep state’s frequent blind eye to the Left’s shenanigans in Latin America including the works there by the Castros, Cuban intelligence, and cooperation between them and Iran and Russia.
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