US meddling machine boasts of 'laying the groundwork for insurrection' in Nicaragua

[Judi Lynn]

JULY 2ND, 2018 Max Blumenthal



“Laying the groundwork for insurrection”

While some corporate media outlets have portrayed the violent protest movement gripping Nicaragua as a progressive grassroots upswell, the country’s own student leaders have suggested otherwise.

As Nicaraguan student protest leaders met with neoconservatives in Washington DC, a publication funded by the US government’s regime change arm – the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – boasted of spending millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection” against President Daniel Ortega.

Meeting with US right-wingers

In early June, Nicaragua’s leading young activists went on a junket to Washington DC, on the dime of the US government-funded right-wing advocacy group Freedom House. The Nicaraguan student leaders were there to beseech Donald Trump and other right-wing US government officials to help them in their fight against Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.

On the excursion to the US capital, the young activists posed for photo-ops with some of the most notorious neoconservatives in the US Congress: Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (see tweets later in this article). The Nicaraguan student leaders were also shepherded to meetings with top officials from the State Department and the US government soft-power organization USAID. There, they were reassured that they would have Washington’s full-throated support.

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