Posted on 11/08/2021 2:10:59 AM PST by RandFan
President Joe Biden issued a statement on Sunday slamming Nicaragua's "sham elections," in which President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory.
In the statement, Biden accused Ortega's government of conducting "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic."
Biden said the imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures and preventing other parties from competing in the election "rigged the outcome well before election day." He also noted that independent media has been shuttered, journalists jailed, and civil society groups bullied.
"Long unpopular and now without a democratic mandate, the Ortega and Murillo family now rule Nicaragua as autocrats, no different from the Somoza family that Ortega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago," Biden said.
He called on the Ortega regime to release imprisoned dissidents and said the U.S. and others in the international community would "use all diplomatic and economic tools" to hold the government accountable.
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I recall liberal Hollywood celebrities being quite fond of the Ortegas, so watch out Joe when you make comments like that.
The effing chutzpah of this guy....
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The effing chutzpah of this guy....
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Biden questioning anyone else’s election = Bizarro World
He’s also locking up political prisoners (Jan 6th).. Many more than he’s accusing them of here!
Takes one to know one.
Joe sets a new height world record for super ultra hyper mega hypocrisy.
I wish very poor things for Mr Biden.
Very poor things indeed.
Didn’t purchase their fraudulent ballots and rigged voting machines from an outfit paying 10% to our big guy.
If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black.
The Ortregas have been around for a long time, but so has Biden. Biden and the entire House voted for the Boland amendment which handcuffed the Reagan administration’s efforts to assist the Contras against the first Ortega regime, which was even worse.
Kettle this is pot... Can you hear me pot...?
Thought it was a Babylon Bee article at first.
Well this is some sick comedy
Dude has no idea what day it is, so how would he realize the irony?
Dude has no idea what day it is, so how would he realize the irony?
Wow, absolutely no self awareness.
You may have a point....
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LOL! Yes, the days of America looking down our noses at banana republics are in the past.
Equivalent to a group of degenerate homosexuals preaching about sin. They think they have moral superiority.
John Kerry and Tom Harkin are Ortega’s BFF’s.
I’m sure they are headed there to tell him to tone it down.
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