False beliefs on Nicaragua : foreign news messaging for Nicaragua's minority opposition | Un enfoque diferente - Nicaragua

Submitted bytortilla onSáb, 01/06/2019 - 11:44

Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal, June 1^st 2019

Foreign news coverage by North American or European propaganda media outlets long ago abandoned rational critical thought for demented false beliefs. Here, a few examples from Nicaragua contrast Western media messaging on behalf of Nicaragua's minority political opposition with what they really mean:

Demented Western media messaging	What they really mean
“Daniel Ortega is a dictator”	“President Daniel Ortega has democratized Nicaragua - we don't like it”
“Daniel Ortega is a bloodthirsty dictator”	“We really, really don’t like Daniel Ortega, and we arranged for all these people to be killed to prove it”
“Rosario Murillo is the real power in Nicaragua”	“We hate talented independent women”
“Nicaragua censors freedom of speech!”	“Most people in Nicaragua ignore us”
“Nicaragua has over a thousand political prisoners!”	“A few hundred of our paid thugs got caught”
“Nicaragua’s police savagely repress peaceful protests!”	“We only managed to shoot dead 23 police officers and wound another 400”
“We demand democracy!”	“We demand submission to our US owners”
“We demand freedom!”	“Let's turn Nicaragua into Haiti”
“We demand justice!”	“Off with their heads!”
“We demand free elections!”	“Foreign intervention now, please”
“Nicaragua’s economy is in crisis!”	“Big business can’t get what it wants”
“Nicaragua isn’t safe!”	“Let’s destroy Nicaragua's tourist industry!”
“The police are shooting at us!”	“Can’t we find somewhere more comfortable to fake this?”

The list of insane falsehoods goes on and on. In this case the target country is Nicaragua, but the same applies to Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, anywhere resistant to or competing with US and EU foreign policy imperatives. Phony news coverage like this, denying Western news consumers true and fair reporting, is a deliberate attack on democracy. Just as in Venezuela and Cuba, Nicaragua's minority political opposition depend on people's ignorance outside the country so as to foment their sinister fantasy version of Nicaragua's reality. Inside Nicaragua, life goes on as normal under the most successful government the country has ever had.