Posted on 06/15/2018 4:04:54 PM PDT by BBell
Managua (AFP) – One evening as she watched some local kids play outside in her Managua neighborhood, Nicaraguan Mireya Alegria was shocked to see police, motorcycles and a white van carrying hooded men speed past.
“They started firing,” she says. It was the moment she decided enough was enough.
Now Alegria is one of the thousands of Nicaraguans desperately seeking to process migration documents and flee to neighboring Central American countries, as two months of anti-government dissent has triggered increasingly violent state repression.
“Thousands of people come daily to do paperwork,” said Nubia Manzanares, a migration agent, adding that many come with their children.
Lines in offices such as hers are endless, as families and young people attempt to leave in particular for Costa Rica, the primary destination of Nicaraguans since the country’s 1980s civil war between President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas and the US-backed contras.
Jonathan Pena, 19, says his top reason for leaving is because he sees the government “persecuting and killing young people.”
He spent hours working to get a visa and travel by plane to Costa Rica, because at the land border activists have erected barricades in an attempt to intensify pressure on Ortega.
According to analyst and ex-deputy of the opposition Eliseo Nunez, part of Ortega’s strategy is to incite panic to trigger migration particularly from the middle class, an especially anti-government sector.
The crisis sparked by relatively small protests against now-abandoned social security reforms morphed into an explosive movement demanding Ortega along with his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo leave office.
But Ortega appears set on staying, and the past two months has seen more than 160 people die in bloody clashes between armed government-backed forces and activists brandishing slingshots and homemade mortars.
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Too bad Nicaragua is not an Island.
See, this is why foreign aid should be abolished. All it does it go to the regime in charge who uses the money to spend on his cronies and army. We simply cannot take care of the entire world.
Costa Ricans routinely blame bad things on “those Nicaraguans”.
What you said is very true.
Sounds a tiny bit like a sh1thole country, but what do I know?
When you get right down to it, almost all of Central America would prefer to live in the United States. Can’t blame them but the problem is that they don’t assimilate, prosper and politically behave in a manner that seeks to turn America into a facsimile of the horror show they left.
For investors, this may be a bonanza, people are probably selling out for 10cents on the dollar.
To bad America doesn’t have a two story high wall along the entire length of its southern border.
Assume this is true, which may not be the case, not my problem. Ya’ll need to get your act together and take back your country, not invade America and turn it into the crap-hole you just left. Just saying.
It’s too bad we can’t trade them 25 “progressive” snowflakes for each Nicaraguan they send here.
Just don't come to the US. Ask any liberal and they will tell you the US is the worst place in the world.
You use to have to assimilate but since the multi-cultis have taken over assimilation is no longer sought.
Article states.....”part of Ortega’s strategy is to incite panic to trigger migration particularly from the middle class, an especially anti-government sector.”.....
While here the libs would love to see us in the streets and so are planting all sorts of fake news to keep everyone riled up.
US Marines are needed to invade Nicarauga, Hondouras and El Salvador to eliminate the conditions causing the exedous of refugees.
The invasion by US Marines can be justified as a national security issue. The countries under US Martial law provide places to return all the illegals now in the northern 48 United States.
There is historical precedent for American marines in many such faux nations.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
They voted for Ortega, knowing he was a Commie.
The poorest ones may have, and the communists for certain whatever the class, but the middle class that Ortega is trying to drive out didn’t. If he sends them fleeing as refugees, then his next election won’t even be close. And the election after that, and after that, ... By the time the poor realize their mistake he will be too entrenched to remove with mere ballots.
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