(BBC News) Nicaragua party 'outraged' by US (interference)

[Up2Late]

(More "Back to the Future" crap in Central America, Can you say Hypocrites) :grr:

Nicaragua party 'outraged' by US

Nicaragua's opposition Liberal Party has condemned criticism by a US diplomat as "outrageous interference".

Thursday, 6 October 2005, 10:25 GMT 11:25 UK

Earlier this week, the US deputy secretary of state called former President Arnoldo Aleman - who has been convicted of fraud - "corrupt".

Robert Zoellick also threatened to cut off aid if Aleman continued to work with the leftist Sandinistas against President Enrique Bolanos. Mr Zoellick and Mr Bolanos accuse the opposition of attempting a coup.

The Sandinistas have yet to respond to the comments by the US diplomat, who said at the end of a two-day visit that he felt the political ground was shifting.

'Victim'

The Liberals and Sandinistas dominate the Nicaraguan Congress, which is at present debating a proposal to impeach Mr Bolanos for alleged campaign finance violations. The legislators have already stripped two of Bolanos' ministers and three senior officials of their immunity from prosecution.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4314884.stm>
(more at link above)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I've been saying for a while that I feel like we're back in the 80s,

but damn.

[goforit]

9. Well, with Poppy's brains still in power, he can't get past this.

The guy want to keep gold High so that all his
gold mines bring in $$$$$$

He wants his OIL buddies to be rich and happy,
He likes to play cowboys and indians with our innocent military men
vs his self created Alqaeda "Pirates" and plan for more
He likes to ethnic cleanse people who are diff(Katrina)
He likes to play Golf with Ken Lay/Skilling
He loves secret societies
He loves political coups.
He thinks he still can paracheut out of a plane
He loves to USE the mantra of religious zealots for his own good
He likes to play with super bugs(anthrax/smallpox/Bird Flu/mad cow)
He idolizes Hitler to the point of committing a dido of 911 just
so he could pulverize Iraqis

And Boy oh boy......he loved the Eighties

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Talk about hitting the nail on the head. n/t

[bemildred]

2. Zoelick is clumsily attempting to shore up the local stooge.

With the usual ham-handed tactics ("threatened to cut off aid").
They should call it what it is, bribe money, not "aid".

[peacetalksforall]

5. Now that we're smarter - it's always been bribe and hostage money.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Zoellick may look different from Bolton and Reich and Noriega

but he's acting EXACTLY like them. They could all afford to act a little more civilized, a little more like "diplomats," even though the world it would take a miracle to see them as diplomats. They are crude thugs.



They have decided they are going to take the power they have stolen, and wield it like it's never been wielded, not realizing it's a mark of a very sloppy upbringing to be so nasty. Their betters in American history wouldn't have dreamed of breathing down everyone's neck all over the world. They are scum.

On edit:
The _Bushes are wild about their little old puppet Bolanos. It's almost too sad to witness. He's their guy. It's really sad.
http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2003/FOTOS/noviembre/Bush%20Bolanos_condecoracion,%2006nov.jpg

[phusion]

4. How come all the US "diplomats"

actually LOOK like thugs and display odd body behavior? And why do they all have moustaches?

I feel like I'm watching the third reich sometimes...

[peacetalksforall]

6. C Boyden Grey is leaving his 'overhaul the consitution to please

the corporations, reverends, and greedy politicians' job to become Ambasssador to the E.U. He has eyebrows.

[MisterP]

8. ugh, Basil Rathbone and Mike Myers had a kid

[Up2Late]

7. kick n/t

:kick:

[Say_What]

11. NarcoNews: Democracy or CAFTA?: Why is Zoellick in Nicaragua

<clips>

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellickis in Nicaragua to try to break up a bizzare left-right alliance that has paralyzed and threatened to derail the government of President Enrique Bolaños. The U.S. is justifying its involvement in Nicaragua's domestic affairs by claiming that it is acting to protect democracy, but it seems more than coincidental that Zoellick, who served as U.S. Trade Representative from 2001-2005 is the official who has been dispatched to Nicaragua at a time when the deadlock in the Nicaraguan National Assembly is preventing the country from ratifying the Domincan Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA.)

Nowhere is the cliche that "politics makes strange bedfellows" truer than in Nicaragua. United only by their hatred of President Bolaños, Sandinistas and right-wing allies of jailed ex-President Arnoldo Aleman have formed an alliance known as "el pacto" that has largely paralyzed the Bolaños government by derailing its programs in the National Assembly.

"El pacto" is certainly undemocratic. But it has had the serendipitously democratic effect of preventing the National Assembly from taking up the ratification of DR-CAFTA, a trade agreement opposed by the country's poor majority because of the agreement's devastating effect on workers and farmers. National Assembly President Rene Nuñez, a Sandinista, has prevented the agreement from coming to the floor of the National Assembly. On September 21, he suspended the National Assembly session indefinitely because not enough members formally signed in. Members of the pro-Bolaños Blue and White faction suggest that this occured because members of the pro-Aleman Constitutional Liberal Party conspired with the Sandinistas to prevent the Assembly from holding the session in order to keep DR-CAFTA from passing the Assembly. The U.S.-based solidarity group, Nicaragua Networkreports that:

Despite the fact that the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) deputies went out of their way to make it seem like they were pushing for DR-CAFTA to be discussed, Orlando Tardencilla, a Blue and White deputy, questioned whether this really was the case. According to Tardencilla, the Liberal-Sandinista pact has an agreement not to allow DR-CAFTA through the legislature in the near future. The PLC must, however, appear to be lobbying in favor of the
trade agreement so as not to lose face among its right-wing voters.

The fact that this development coincides with the dramatic increase in U.S. pressure to break the gridlock that keeps Bolaños from governing effectively certainly raises questions about the real motive behind Zoellick's trip to Nicaragua.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/10/5/203437/871

[Roland99]

12. Sovereignty only matters when it's in the U.S.'s interests

Then again, this administration doesn't really know what sovereignty means:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2646755?htv=12