Posted on 10/12/2022 7:44:50 PM PDT by bitt
An exiled Nicaraguan journalist says she fears a growing presence of Russsian troops in her homeland as the country grows increasingly isolated on the world stage.
Berta Valle — wife of imprisoned Nicaraguan opposition leader and presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga — told The Post on Monday that Nicaraguans are “terrified” of dictator Daniel Ortega’s decision to welcome Russian soldiers to the Central American country after seeing what they’ve done in Ukraine.
“Ortega invited the Russian military into Nicaragua. Publicly, he says Russia is supporting the military training of the Nicaraguan military. But we are terrified, because our country is hosting an army that commits atrocities against civilians in Ukraine,” Valle said.
Ortega issued a decree in June allowing foreign soldiers to operate inside Nicaraguan borders for various training, emergency response and law enforcement purposes.
The law comes as Ortega’s regime distances itself from the West and draws closer to the Kremlin — expelling the European Union’s ambassador over the weekend while criminally prosecuting the relatives of his political opponents.
Berta Valle. “Our country is hosting an army that commits atrocities against civilians in Ukraine,” Berta Valle said. Oslo Freedom Forum One of the few world leaders to back Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ortega also recently signed a deal with Russia’s state-run radio network Sputnik, allowing the Kremlin mouthpiece to broadcast in Nicaragua.
Valle and others have expressed the fear that Russian boots on the ground in Nicaragua will help the dictatorship — run by Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo — to further develop its collective repression techniques.
Western analysts also worry Russia will use Nicaragua as a base for further espionage and intelligence-gathering operations.
“It’s very frustrating,” Valle said of the situation in Nicaragua. “The Ortega family has taken over all aspects of civil society. People are
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A very long time ago, I worked security for some events raising money for Nicaraguans who knew what to do about things like this. Shook Adolfo Calero’s hand.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicaragua-gives-permission-for-russian-troops-to-enter-country/
Nicaragua gives permission for Russian troops to enter country
JUNE 11, 2022
There’s why you put people like that in prison, when they’ve
earned a long stay there.
We helped Nicaragua get rid of him, and they brought him back.
Sadly, many good people will pay for this mistake.
Bio lab clean up?
I guess we should have gotten rid of that pinko commie geek, a little harder.
“I guess we should have gotten rid of that pinko commie geek, a little harder.”
That applies in more than one country...
> An exiled Nicaraguan journalist says she fears a growing presence of Russsian troops in her homeland ... <
No worries. Eventually those Russian troops will be displaced by Chinese “economic advisors”. Some of those advisors will be carrying weapons. Some of them will be carrying boxes of cash instead.
The result will be the same. The Chinese will win. Everyone else will lose. Trump understood this. So of course he had to go.
Who’s the guy in the middle? He looks familiar.
Looks like Tom Harkin, D-IA, a Senator, but I could be mistaken.
Daniel Ortega, notorious for molesting his own daughter.
I think that was a prominent Democrat politician. Possibly even a senator.
The Sandinistas had some of their people train as hijackers and, along with Palestinian terrorists, hijacked planes. One plane was headed to New York when they hijacked it, sticking hand grenades in passenger’s faces and threatening to blow up the plane.
Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled & the Nicaraguan Sandinistas :
SEPTEMBER 6, 1970 : (UK : FOURTH ATTEMPTED HIJACKING OF AN ISRAELI EL AL AIRLINER FAILS : ONE HIJACKER, NICARAGUAN SANDINISTA PATRICK ARGUELLO RYAN KILLED, THE OTHER, PALESTINIAN TERRORIST LEILA KHALED, IS CAPTURED WHEN PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN LONDON) On September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked three airplanes to free captured members and bring attention to their cause. The hostage crisis on an abandoned airstrip in Jordan captured world attention. That same day, a fourth attempted hijack of an Israeli El Al flight failed. The male hijacker was killed, and the female hijacker was taken into custody by British authorities when the Israeli plane made an emergency landing in London. She was identified as Leila Khaled, a Palestinian guerrilla famous for a previous hijacking in 1969. The slain hijacker was later identified as Patrick Arguello Ryan, a 27-year-old man of Nicaraguan-American background. Questions abounded: Who was he and how did he come to be involved with the Palestinians? Many assumed he was merely a radical embracing a revolutionary cause, a leftist student like so many of that era. Some called him an internationalist hero like Che Guevara, while others called him a cold-blooded terrorist like Carlos the Jackal. The truth about Patrick Arguello is far more complex. Patrick was a member of Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front. He died in an obscure chapter of Sandinista history: their 1970 collaboration with Palestinian guerrillas. - http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/1544.html
12 posted on 10/1/2017, 11:09:53 PM by piasa
Whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine?
Yes, it does.
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