{"id":387552,"date":"2018-12-03T07:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-hypocrisy-knows-no-bounds\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:28:06","slug":"u-s-hypocrisy-knows-no-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-hypocrisy-knows-no-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107566\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107566\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.31.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.31.34-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-29-at-5.31.34-PM-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Tavox13 | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A rather puzzling news item caught the eye of this writer today: \u201cThe US has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua\u2019s Vice-President Rosario Murillo, the wife of President Daniel Ortega, accusing her of corruption and serious human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he read further, this bewilderment only increased: \u201cOn Tuesday, the US Treasury said it was using a new executive order issued by US President Donald Trump to punish Ms. Murillo, accusing her of undermining Nicaragua\u2019s democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the crimes Murillo is purported to be guilty of is as follows: \u201cShe is believed to have held influence over a youth organization that the US says engaged in extra-judicial killings, torture and kidnapping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let us all take a look at these brief statements, and see how many examples of hypocrisy can be found in them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>+ Murillo, the first lady of Nicaragua who rules the nation along with her husband, Daniel Ortega, is accused by the U.S. of \u2018corruption\u2019. President Trump, his son and daughter-in-law are believed to be benefiting financially by their positions in government, which, or course, is \u2018corruption\u2019 in the U.S. That this has not be seriously investigated is a mistake (to put it tactfully) that will no doubt be rectified in January, when the Democrats take control of the House, and will be looking for anything to discredit Trump. From all available evidence, such issues will not be difficult to find.<\/p>\n<p>+ Murillo is also accused of \u2019serious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/30\/nicaragua-u-s-hypocrisy-knows-no-bounds\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Tavox13 | CC BY 2.0 A rather puzzling news item caught the eye of this writer today: \u201cThe US has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua\u2019s Vice-President Rosario Murillo, the wife of President Daniel Ortega, accusing her of corruption and serious human rights abuses.\u201d As he read further, this bewilderment only increased: \u201cOn Tuesday, the [&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-387552","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\/387552","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=387552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}