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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 03:14 PM Jul 2018

Nicaragua's bloodshed is worse than Venezuela's. Where's the international uproar? Read more here:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article214125179.html

BY ANDRÉS OPPENHEIMER

Maybe it’s because many of us are glued to the television watching the World Cup, or focused on President Trump’s latest lies about asylum seekers, but the bloodshed in Nicaragua — where more than 220 people have been killed in recent protests — should get much more international attention.

Over the past two months, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s regime has killed more people in street protests in his country than did dictator Nicolás Maduro in last year’s brutal repression of protesters in Venezuela. And Nicaragua has a population of only 6 million, compared with Venezuela’s 32 million.

Yet, amazingly, there is hardly an international uproar over what’s going on in Nicaragua. You don’t hear much talk about adopting international sanctions against top officials of the Nicaraguan regime, like the financial and travel sanctions that the United States and European and Latin American countries have imposed on top Venezuelan officials.

“There’s no civil war here. There is no confrontation between two armed forces, but government forces who are carrying out a massacre against a civic insurrection,” Carlos Fernando Chamorro, publisher of Nicaragua’s political newsmagazine Confidencial, told me.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article214125179.html#storylink=cpy
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Nicaragua's bloodshed is worse than Venezuela's. Where's the international uproar? Read more here: (Original Post) G_j Jul 2018 OP
K&R MustLoveBeagles Jul 2018 #1
I'm not surprised in the least. Archae Jul 2018 #2
This is what happens when a psychopath is in "charge". democratisphere Jul 2018 #3
Chaos Eruption's Across The World Civic Justice Jul 2018 #4
Where is the oil? McCamy Taylor Jul 2018 #5

Archae

(46,327 posts)
2. I'm not surprised in the least.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 03:33 PM
Jul 2018

Ortega has always been a vicious opportunist.

He dumped his old Sandanista buddies, and went completely to the right wing.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. This is what happens when a psychopath is in "charge".
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jul 2018

Make war where there isn't any and ignore real war where people are suffering and warring to death.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
4. Chaos Eruption's Across The World
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 04:41 PM
Jul 2018

Last edited Sun Jul 1, 2018, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Societies are coming to a point that - "Change is Inevitable"

The old history of acts and influences going back to the days of since Columbus Sailed... as white skin people began their "greed chase around the globe", encroaching and disrespecting the vast array of multicultural people, while in pursuit of material wealth and natural resources.... has reached a point of extremity in the absurdity of the absurd and vile devastation it was when the Europeans first began its encroachment upon this hemisphere of North and Central America.
Between the acts of Europeans and Spaniards... the devastation has not ceased in these regions for 100's of years.

Democracy was a Noble Idea and it Still Is.... the problem is, the framers thought it to be only for "white men", as it was only white men, they considered to be "person's".
Not even the white women among their ethnicity was considered to be Person, she was in practical purposes "Possessions"; they were Possession with a Duty and Function, which based itself in producing offspring's to be heir's and for pleasure and care taking of the man and the home, which meant her appearance was to be paraded liken to be a trophy possession.

Everywhere across European and Indigenous settlements in 17th- and 18th-century North America and the Caribbean, the law or legal practices shaped women’s status and conditioned their dependency, regardless of race, age, marital status, or place of birth. Historians have focused much of their attention on the legal status, powers, and experiences of women of European origin across the colonies and given great consideration to the law of domestic relations, the legal disabilities of coverture, and women’s experiences as plaintiffs and defendants, both civil and criminal, in colonial courts. Early American legalities, however, differed markedly for women of color—whether free, indentured, or enslaved, and whether Native or African in origin or descent—whose relationships to the legal regimes of early America were manifold and complex. In their status under the law, experiences at the bar, and, as a result, positions in household polities, women of color reckoned with a set of legalities that differed from those of their European counterparts. The diversity of women’s experiences of the law was shaped not only by race but also by region: Indigenous people had what one historian has labeled jurispractices, while Europeans brought and created a jurisprudence of race and status that shaped treatments of women of color across imperial spaces


Upon the European and Eastern European Continent and its Many Countries - the conflicts are centuries old. The one can look at the Middle East and the Far East and consider the divisions and conflict regions which still this day have many conflicting systems, where conflict rages across the expanse.

Man's Greed driven by his own vanity and gluttonous mindset wrapped within Mankind Egotist aims of Dominion... promoted by the Avarice encompassed mentality and slothful driven character has no end point; because Avarice (extreme greed for wealth or material gain) is the evilness that has shaped his consciousness and his consciousnesses drives his actions. No matter what cultural religious ideals man adopts, he seeks by any means the continual madness to think himself above and greater than God. Countless historical accounts has shown many of mankind to be driven with aims to Disavow the Ideals and Principles based upon God Premise. His actions continually demonstrate his aim to repudiate God. Man wants to be the Ruler of Other Mankind.

They have no concept to ingest the truer premise of why Rulers of a Land's was established, which was: Rulers of a Land's was established for the protections of the people and the advancement of civilizations within society.

Democracy was and is the best hope for mankind to build a peaceful world...

Democracy= a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Government by the people; especially : rule of the majority. b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

We have today... a government in America, that has become influenced by foreign adversaries and domestic adversaries against Democracy.... by the acts that seek Authoritarian Dominance through and by Autocratic Dictations.

We have descended even further into a culture of society that has morphed itself in many frames of ongoing Racism's Madness, (prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.)

The Human Being's natural nature and Natural inclinations is Democratic by the premise of God Principles, based on "Equality", which is substantiated by the basis of the "Golden Rule". The book of Matthew 7 tells us much.... if we only listen to hear and
awaken to understand.
Such has escaped many of Man, for Centuries and Generations, by and through Man's Greed driven by his own vanity and gluttonous mindset wrapped within Mankind Egotist aims of Dominion... promoted by the Avarice encompassed mentality and slothful driven character has no end point; because Avarice (extreme greed for wealth or material gain) is the evilness that has shaped his consciousness and his consciousnesses drives his actions.

Unless The Spirit Of Democracy is Reborn In Society Of Man, Chaos Eruptions will continue to span across the Globe. America is not immune, when Democracy is under attack and the assaults continue to erode its own system of democratic governance.


A New World Order - It must lead to the spread of Democracy, Globally.... or Chaos spread like a flame that becomes a wildfire.

We've seen Trump and Republican Idealist dismantle "Diplomacy" piece by piece and erode the Ambassadors who promote Diplomacy and install a destroyer in the office of Secretary of State. As well as infect the Courts of the Nation in a turn away from Democratic Policies and Principles of Democratically Structured System of Law and Justice. Replacing them with a Federalist Society of Conservative Promoting Justices, who aspire to the edicts of Confederacy and Antebellum Ideas, to institute a class and race divisiveness with race divisiveness within the classes, to be controlled by Authoritarian Premise, with the installation of the Wealthy as if to make a Monarchical Rule over the people.

It is seeking the closest and most vilest inhumanity of thing that can be made to provide the wealthy with a system as close like Slavery as it can achieve, because its led by people who never lost their lust for Slaves, it is a system that is worst than a system of Serfdom, it is more vile than a system of peasants, and as close to inhumanity of Slavery in every aspect of its pursuit to regress society to such inhumanity. It is the making of a system of "the indentured", under a new form of Race Based Autocracy.

What comes next? Everyone may consider to have concerns... who reside upon this earth. If each individual feels their life and the lives of their offspring's and their family and friends matters, then, the question becomes, what matter will they stand to support and promote?

Who among us chooses to be a bystander or participant in The Decline of Civility or a True Supporter in the Continuing Improvements in and of Our Democracy.

The question to ask one's self... is it "each individuals responsibility" or is it the responsibility of everyone else, excluding ones own self.
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