Educate yourself and take action!

[The same assholes who participated in Iran-Contra un Reagan, are in our government right NOW...If they're messing in Nicaragua's upcoming election, just imagine what they're doing to our election system]

In November of 2006 Nicaraguans will go to the polls to vote for their president and deputies of the National Assembly. There has been and will be much activity on the part of the US government to assure that the Nicaraguan elections are "fair and democratic." But what does that really mean?

As the US spokesperson in Nicaragua, US Ambassador Paul Trivelli has stated many times, the US “will establish cordial relationships with any administration that is elected democratically …that has a reasonable economic policy and is ready to cooperate with us.”

The present administration has made it clear that a government that is cooperating with the US will do the following: (1) support CAFTA and other free trade policies, (2) participate in all the US requests concerning the war on terrorism, (3) ensure that the Nicaraguan national police receive training that blurs the time-honored distinction between civilian policing and military action, and (4) not maintain friendly diplomatic relationships with either Cuba or Venezuela.

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List of interventions by the United States government in Nicaragua's democratic process!

The repeated interventionist statements by successive US ambassadors since 2004 have crossed the line between diplomacy and intervention in Nicaragua's internal affairs. When a US ambassador threatens non-cooperation with a freely elected government that does not have what the US government considers sensible economic policies or does not wish to surrender control of its military to the US’s interpretation of “security,” Nicaraguans think not of aid cut offs, but of US-sponsored armed conflict because that was their recent experience during the 1980s when the United States government organized, funded, armed and trained a counter-revolutionary army to attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. That revolutionary government put in place a democratic constitution and, when voted out of office in the 1990 elections, turned power over to the winning coalition, thus marking the first peaceful turn-over of power to an opposing political party in Nicaragua's history.

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