Margine Gutierrez, August 28th 2021
It sounds like a cruel joke or perhaps an especially reactionary joke. But it is not. That is how the US Terrorist State functionaries think. They not only believe they have the omnipotent right to decide whether elections are or are not democratic, they also believe that it is up to them even whether or not to accept a government elected by its own People.
It is a perverse game the United States is playing. They meddle directly with their claws in our affairs via their embassy and other agents. We already saw how yesterday Sullivan distributed an insolent note in which he spread infamies about the COVID 19 situation, with the sole purpose of sowing fear among the population.
With multi-million dollar financing, they recruit local agents to organize coups d'état, destroy the economy and promote discontent among the population using false news and slander.
They favor venal journalists and the façade of shell non profits they themselves created. When the Nicaraguan State, exercising its sovereignty and self-determination, defends itself and neutralizes the aggressive plans being implemented by the US through its local proxies - who match the dictionary definition of mercenaries- the Yankees jump up and down saying the authorities are decapitating the opposition because they claim Daniel Ortega, supported by voter intentions of well over 60%, is afraid of them.
However, it is not the opposition that is being neutralized but the US agents among them. If before Reagan described the criminal Contra as "paladins of freedom" while they they devastated Nicaragua in the 1980's, now the US describes as "presidential candidates" the Contra leaders' current equivalents, who with their sinister plans have also tried to destroy the country ever since April 18th 2018.
The situation requires them to say that the elections are fraudulent and undemocratic. They believe that by this means, delegitimizing our popular democracy, they have some chance of installing the old liberoconservative oligarchy in power, as they did in the past. They are the same old oligarchy, although the faces are new. They are the heirs and imitators of Emiliano Chamorro or Chema Moncada, and therefore, in the end, the self-same oligarchy.
Nicaragua is not a colony of the United States but a free, sovereign and independent nation and so it is no business of the United States whether Daniel Ortega receives another mandate. That is for us Nicaraguans alone to decide. The US authorities should be ashamed to reveal with such cynicism their terrorist foreign policy and their inveterate, shameless intervention in other countries' internal affairs.