{"id":396745,"date":"2019-02-21T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-first-venezuela-now-nicaragua-bolton-says-ortegas-days-numbered-people-will-soon-be-free\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:31:01","slug":"prison-planet-com-first-venezuela-now-nicaragua-bolton-says-ortegas-days-numbered-people-will-soon-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-first-venezuela-now-nicaragua-bolton-says-ortegas-days-numbered-people-will-soon-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb First Venezuela, now Nicaragua? Bolton says Ortega\u2019s days \u2018numbered\u2019 &#038; people \u2018will soon be free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/452023-john-bolton-nicaragua-ortega-regime-change\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 21 ,2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s top foreign policy advisor John Bolton appears dead set on resuming his decades-long stand-off with Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, hinting that Washington-backed regime change may be in the offing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Ortega regime has sentenced three farm leaders to 550 years in prison for their roles in protests in 2018, where Ortega\u2019s police forces reportedly killed 300 activists. As President Trump said Monday, Ortega\u2019s days are numbered and the Nicaraguan people will soon be free,<\/em>\u201d the national security advisor to the US president tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Ortega regime has sentenced three farm leaders to 550 years in prison for their roles in protests in 2018, where Ortega\u2019s police forces reportedly killed 300 activists. As President Trump said Monday, Ortega\u2019s days are numbered and the Nicaraguan people will soon be free.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton\/status\/1098221259735863297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The leaders of anti-Ortega protests were given jail terms this week, after they were implicated in the deaths of four policemen and a teacher during a shootout last July.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>The Central American nation has been rocked by unrest since April last year, with protesters demanding the resignation of Sandinista party leader Ortega, who has been president since 2007, and convincingly won another five-year term in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The US has repeatedly backed the uprising against the left-wing government, and last November Bolton made a keynote speech calling for the \u201ccrumbling\u201d of what he called the \u201cTroika of Tyranny\u201d \u2013 Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba \u2013 saying the states represented a \u201ca sordid cradle of communism in the Western hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trump name-checked the same three countries, saying their \u201cgreat potential\u201d would be unlocked with the collapse of socialism. To expedite the process, Congress last year imposed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/first-venezuela-now-nicaragua-bolton-says-ortegas-days-numbered-people-will-soon-be-free.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTFebruary 21 ,2019 US President Donald Trump\u2019s top foreign policy advisor John Bolton appears dead set on resuming his decades-long stand-off with Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, hinting that Washington-backed regime change may be in the offing. \u201cThe Ortega regime has sentenced three farm leaders to 550 years in prison for their roles in protests in [&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-396745","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\/396745","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=396745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}