{"id":371326,"date":"2018-07-29T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/homage-to-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:35:24","slug":"homage-to-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/homage-to-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104011\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104011 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/flsnflags.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/flsnflags.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/flsnflags-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/flsnflags-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/flsnflags-768x761.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nicaraguans celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista triumph. Dan Kovalik, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the smoke finally clears, if it ever clears here, the coverage of the recent events in Nicaragua will be looked upon as quite possibly the most effective, and equally sinister, misinformation campaigns ever waged upon a nation.\u00a0 \u00a0The good news is that the Nicaraguan people, while initially confused by this campaign, have quickly caught on to what is really happening.\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully, we in the Global North will catch on soon.<\/p>\n<p>Max Blumenthal, Thomas Hedges and I travelled to Nicaragua during the week of the annual celebration of the overthrow of the US-backed Somoza dictatorship on July 19, 1979.\u00a0\u00a0 As we were reminded during our stay in Managua, <a href=\"https:\/\/nacla.org\/article\/interesting-times-nicaragua-revolution\">50,000 Nicaraguans<\/a> (out of a total population of about 2.5 million) died in the struggle to overthrow Somoza in the late 1970\u2019s. \u00a0However, this was of little concern for the US, or the OAS which the US has always dominated.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in 1978, even as Somoza was attacking major cities with advanced weaponry supplied by the US, UK and Israel \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1978\/09\/25\/nicaragua-counts-losses-as-somoza-wins-first-round\/b9709f11-1646-44d8-829f-0ebb27389449\/?utm_term=.2d415dec34ef\">weaponry which included<\/a> \u201carmored personnel carriers, Sherman tanks, U.S.-made troop transports and light observation helicopters equipped with machine guns and rockets, several two-engine, rocket-equipped Cessnas, artillery, and an awesome assortment of automatic weapons\u201d\u2013 the most the OAS would do is <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1977-1980\/central-america-carter\">agree to a US proposal<\/a> for a political mediation in Nicaragua between Somoza and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/27\/homage-to-nicaragua\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaraguans celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista triumph. Dan Kovalik, 2018. When the smoke finally clears, if it ever clears here, the coverage of the recent events in Nicaragua will be looked upon as quite possibly the most effective, and equally sinister, misinformation campaigns ever waged upon a nation.\u00a0 \u00a0The good news is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}