Nicaragua Electoral Authority Unseats Opposition Lawmakers

[Marksman_91]

Source: ABC News

Nicaragua's top electoral authority decimated the country's political opposition on Friday by unseating practically all of its remaining lawmakers in congress as President Daniel Ortega prepares to seek a third term.

The Supreme Electoral Council ousted 16 opposition legislators from the Liberal Independent Party and its ally the Sandinista Renovation Movement Friday for not recognizing their officially sanctioned leader. That leader, Pedro Reyes, had recently been given that authority by the Supreme Court, which removed the opposition party's previous leader following a long-running political dispute. Reyes is seen by some within his own party as a tool of Ortega.

The 16 legislators removed from their seats supported the party's former leader Eduardo Montealegre and refused to recognize Reyes, who said the vacant seats will be filled by party members who recognize him.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nicaragua-electoral-authority-unseats-opposition-lawmakers-41005538

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Well, this should be fun.

[WhiteTara]

1. And it was only a few decades ago when

Ortega was fighting a revolution to end this.

[geek tragedy]

2. Ortega has always been a corrupt authoritarian

He's just more ideologically flexible these days

[Judi Lynn]

3. Former Contra Mercenary to Run for President in Nicaragua

Former Contra Mercenary to Run for President in Nicaragua



Maximino Rodriguez. | Photo: EFE
Published 11 July 2016

The contras were U.S.-funded right-wing paramilitaries that fought to topple the popular Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua starting in 1979.

Former contra during the U.S. dirty war against Nicaragua, Maximino Rodriguez, announced Monday his decision to run in the upcoming presidential elections under the banner of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party. The contras, or counterrevolutionaries, were U.S.-funded right-wing paramilitaries that fought to topple the popular Sandinista Revolution between 1979 and the early 1990s, leading to many human rights abuses, as the contras systematically used terror tactics against the population. At least 30,000 people died in the war and many were displaced.

Rodriguez, who was a member of congress from 1996-2011, justified his candidacy saying the political elites lost credibility and needed to be replaced.

A fierce opponent of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, Rodriguez said that “patriotism” motivated him, criticizing the “autocracy” of the current government, who he said “appropriated itself all the country's institutions." The FSLN, the former guerrilla group-turned-political party, won popular support in the two previous general elections in 2006 and 2011.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Former-Contra-Mercenary-to-Run-for-President-in-Nicaragua-20160711-0022.html

[Marksman_91]

4. Oh, how lovely, trying to change the topic at hand. Why am I not surprised?

Is there anything you won't do to defend your "leftist" LatAm authoritarian figures?

[GulfCoast66]

5. Goodie

Soon they will be as prosperous as Venezuela and can get free vacations working on local farms.

[Judi Lynn]

6. The 40 years of bloody, torturous rule by the Somozas WERE supported by the U.S. Government.

The people of Nicaragua have been resisting these fascists all this time, and of course, they are going to be getting right-wing resistance until all of the Americas are finally free.

Here's a Wiki regarding the filth running Nicaragua's government/society/economy with total US support which lasted 40 years, with never a word of protest from anyone but the US American leftists, or anyone who could find out what was happening there from behind the thick fog of propaganda we've always had stuffed down our throats.

Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was officially the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 to 29 September 1956, but ruled effectively as dictator from 1936 until his assassination. Anastasio Somoza started a dynasty that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 44 years.

The son of a wealthy coffee planter, Somoza was educated in the United States. After his return to Nicaragua, he helped oust President Adolfo Díaz. He became the foreign secretary and took the title of "General." With the help of the US Marine Corps, which occupied Nicaragua at the time, Somoza became the head of the National Guard. This gave him the power base to remove his wife's uncle, Juan Bautista Sacasa, from the presidency, and make himself president in 1937. In 1947, an ally nominally succeeded him, but he retained power.

A month after his successor had been inaugurated, Somoza used the military to carry out a coup. The president was declared 'incapacitated' by Congress and Somoza served in his stead. Returning to power in his own name in 1951, he maintained an iron grip on his own Liberal Party while making a deal with the Conservatives; thus, he faced no opposition. This left him free to amass a huge personal fortune. On 21 September 1956, he was shot by poet Rigoberto López Pérez. Mortally wounded, he was flown to the Panama Canal Zone where he died a week later. His eldest son Luis Somoza Debayle took over, to be succeeded by his younger brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was forced to flee in 1979 and assassinated in exile in Paraguay the following year.

Biography

Somoza was born in San Marcos, Carazo Department in Nicaragua, the son of Anastasio Somoza Reyes, a wealthy coffee planter, and Julia García, and a grandson of Anastasio Somoza Martínez and Isabel Reyes. As a teenager, he was sent to live with relatives in Philadelphia, where he attended the Peirce School of Business Administration (now Peirce College). While living in Philadelphia, he met his future wife, Salvadora Debayle Sacasa, a member of one of Nicaragua's wealthiest families, daughter of Dr. Luis Henri Debayle Pallais and wife Casimira Sacasa Sacasa, daughter of Roberto Sacasa Sarria, 44th and 46th President of Nicaragua, and wife and cousin Ángela Sacasa Cuadra. After returning to Nicaragua, he was unsuccessful as a businessman.

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Assassination and legacy

In 1955, the constitution was amended to allow him to run for another term. Shortly after being nominated, he was shot on 21 September 1956 by the poet Rigoberto López Pérez in the city of León, and died several days later in a Panama Canal Zone hospital. His older son, Luis Somoza, succeeded him.

Somoza's sons, Luis and Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ruled the country directly or through figurehead politicians for the next 23 years. Despite widespread corruption and repression of dissent, they were able to receive support from the United States, which viewed them as anti-communist stalwarts and a source of stability. His daughter Lillian Somoza Debayle, born in León, Nicaragua, on 3 May 1921, married Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States during his brother-in-law's rule. He also had a son named José R. Somoza, born to an unknown mother.

Somoza is entombed with his oldest son at Cementerio Occidental in the National Guard Mausoleum in Managua, Nicaragua.

"Our Son of a Bitch"

Although Somoza was reckoned as a ruthless dictator, the United States continued to support his regime as a non-communist stronghold in Nicaragua. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) supposedly remarked in 1939 that "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." According to historian David Schmitz, however, researchers and archivists who have searched the archives of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library have found no evidence that Roosevelt ever made this statement. The statement first appeared in the November 15, 1948 issue of Time magazine and was later mentioned in a March 17, 1960 broadcast of CBS Reports called "Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator". In this broadcast, however, it was asserted that FDR made the statement in reference to Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. It should be further noted that this statement has been attributed to a variety of United States presidential administrations in regard to foreign dictators. Thus the statement remains apocryphal at this point, though Roosevelt and future presidents certainly supported the Somoza family and their rule over Nicaragua. Andrew Crawley claims that the Roosevelt statement is a myth created by Somoza himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa

[Marksman_91]

7. Ok. What does this have to do with what I posted?

Or are you gonna continue immaturely spamming this thread with bullshit that isn't relevant?