Posted on 07/01/2018 8:53:01 AM PDT by dynachrome
The wave of violence unleashed during harshly repressed anti-government protests has left some 220 people dead.
What had been a vibrant tourism industry has been devastated, with ripple effects on the broader economy in a country that was already one of the poorest in the Americas.
Business closings have left 200,000 people jobless, and unless the crisis ends soon, some 1.3 million of Nicaragua's 6.2 million people "risk falling into poverty," according to a study by the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides).
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venezuela 2.0
Who cares
What went wrong? /s
As long as they’re not OUR businesses. Like Bianca Jagger Communism is getting old.
As I remember Ortega was young and dashing as a younger political figure. Think Obama, Clinton, Kennedy. Voters don’t look at reality just the flash. When they are presented with reality the left loses. Think Gore, Hillary, Kerry.
Workers paradise
But I thought it was a Socialist Utopian Paradise, the likes of what Bernie Sanders and his minions want for America??
A number of people care.
Time for the UN to take over the country and run it like say the UN.
I cared for a long time too.
I also cared about the destruction of California
Now I just want to see the foolish, lazy and greedy people who created their mess live the life disaster they made for themselves.
The sooner and harder they hit rock bottom the better the lesson for the rest of the voters who want to go down the same path
These people deserve what they get
Socialism can destroy in just a couple years what it took decades or even centuries to build.
I think it would be a great place for the UN to re-locate to, and leave the USA.
Think Jesuits and the current Pope.
Cuba is so screwed with oil imports.
You will care when Mexico lets them go across our border.
I’m old enough to remember the first time Ortega got into power and ran that country into the dirt. With a lot of killing I might add. After years of being out of the limelight, he managed to make a comeback and take over the country again! I remember thinking to myself “these people don’t learn. This is going to turn into another bloodbath, and the stupidity just goes on and on.
Did you deserve Obama? Or Hillary, if she'd won?
The problem is that the ruling class takes it all for themselves, and the rest of government is corrupt. Nothing can get done, and nothing will get done.
Tourism kept the country alive for a time, but no more. Bye bye. Say hello to Venezuela on the way down.
I don’t care.
Who cares
Should care
If Nicaragua goes down the toilet will have hundreds of thousands bum rushing the border trying to get in …..
More Democrat Left-Wing activism on a large scale.
Why should I care?
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