{"id":34811,"date":"2018-06-06T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34811"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:09:35","slug":"the-uss-fingerprints-are-all-over-nicaraguas-bloody-civil-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34811","title":{"rendered":"The US\u2019s Fingerprints Are All Over Nicaragua\u2019s Bloody Civil Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/the-uss-fingerprints-are-all-over-nicaraguas-bloody-civil-unrest_06052018\">The US\u2019s Fingerprints Are All Over Nicaragua\u2019s Bloody Civil Unrest<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58450\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nicaragua-e1528211928452.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nicaragua-e1528211928452.jpg 574w, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nicaragua-e1528211928452-300x164.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bloody protests against Nicaragua\u2019s President Daniel Ortega\u2019s government have the United State\u2019s fingerprints all over it.\u00a0 Over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/death-toll-reaches-100-in-nicaragua-as-political-violence-intensifies\/2018\/06\/01\/74bd5a64-65b0-11e8-81ca-bb14593acaa6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 people have been killed<\/a>\u00a0since the civil unrest broke out in mid-April\u00a0and it doesn\u2019t take much to realize the US government is fueling the bloodbath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/428718-nicaragua-unrest-us-fingerprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to <em>RT<\/em>,<\/a> the so-called\u00a0<em>marea rosa<\/em>, or \u201cpink tide\u201d, of<a href=\"https:\/\/quixote.org\/manufacturing-dissent-the-n-e-d-opposition-media-and-the-political-crisis-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> allied leftist governments<\/a>which held sway across Latin America in previous years is being rolled back. Brazil\u2019s Dilma Rousseff was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/04\/12\/ousted-brazilian-president-dilma-rousseff-i-was-the-victim-of-a-coup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed from power in a right-wing coup<\/a>, co-conspirators of which have now managed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/lula-falls-and-brazilian-democracy-looks-shakier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">imprison the current presidential frontrunner<\/a>, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Ecuador\u2019s Lenin Moreno has stabbed his former leader Rafael Correa in the back by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-42937819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">barring him from seeking re-election<\/a>, while seemingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Ecuadors-Moreno-Appoints-New-Ministers-in-Cabinet-Reshuffle-20180516-0032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purging<\/a>\u00a0his cabinet of remaining Correa loyalists and<strong> beginning the process of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedawn-news.org\/2018\/04\/27\/ecuador-us-security-deal-is-president-lenin-moreno-opening-door-for-us-military-presence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0allowing the US military back into the country<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are all coalescing as other democratic and not-so-democratic removals of leftist governments from power continue. NATO has nabbed itself a foothold in the Latin American region, now that Colombia has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilx.com\/content\/news\/Colombia-Joins-NATO-Alliance-484214581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined<\/a>\u00a0the obsolete yet aggressively expanding Cold War alliance, in a thinly veiled threat to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/big-surprise-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-wins-the-election_05212018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neighboring authoritarian Venezuela.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s Nicaragua\u2019s turn for the US to interfere\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/quixote.org\/manufacturing-dissent-the-n-e-d-opposition-media-and-the-political-crisis-in-nicaragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government\u2019s efforts to \u201cpolice the entire world,\u201d<\/a> paid with by our stolen tax money, of course.\u00a0Student demonstrations began in the capital Managua as a reaction to the country\u2019s failure to handle forest fires in one of the most protected areas of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aida-americas.org\/en\/blog\/the-flame-that-ignited-nicaragua-s-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indio Maiz Biological Reserve.<\/a>\u00a0The situation was then exacerbated when, two days later, the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front announced it was slashing pensions and social security payments,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/nicaragua-pension-protests-explainer-1.4633413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0sparking\u00a0<\/a>further anti-government protests.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Pro-Nicaraguan-government-radio-station-set-ablaze-as-protests-continue\/6611527539254\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Targeted opposition violence<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.havanatimes.org\/?p=132953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police repressions\u00a0<\/a>have led to a mounting body count on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US\u2019s Fingerprints Are All Over Nicaragua\u2019s Bloody Civil Unrest Bloody protests against Nicaragua\u2019s President Daniel Ortega\u2019s government have the United State\u2019s fingerprints all over it.\u00a0 Over\u00a0100 people have been killed\u00a0since the civil unrest broke out in mid-April\u00a0and it doesn\u2019t take much to realize the US government is fueling the bloodbath. According to RT, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[2132,20376,6489,553,5460,8114,6490,827],"class_list":["post-34811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-civil-unrest","tag-daniel-ortega","tag-mac-slavo","tag-nato","tag-nicaragua","tag-rt-news","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34812,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34811\/revisions\/34812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}