Paradise and Oppression in Nicaragua
Ortega’s latest targets are the Church, higher education, and the Red Cross.
Journalists aren’t safe in Nicaragua. Under the Sandinista regime, they are hunted like vermin, with most non-state-stenographers being either jailed or exiled. To enter the country, therefore, I lied to the border guards about being a journalist, posing instead as an economist.
The few remaining journalists work clandestinely, omitting their bylines. I stand with them and the Nicaraguan people yearning for liberty, so after two months wandering around half a dozen Nicaraguan cities I proudly sign this article with my name as a defiant gesture to President Daniel Ortega’s regime: I will write whatever I damn well please about your tinpot pseudo-Marxist dictatorship.
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People I have known include the widow of a journalist murdered a long time ago by the Shah's secret police and a woman whose estranged journalist husband experienced considerable persecution under various Pakistani regimes.
Trust me I'm glad the newsrooms of The Washington Post and The New York Times are crying all the time. Those morons should be grateful Trump made their fortunes and they should pray for his re-election if they want to afford them EVs the Biden Administration wants them to buy.
And in the interests of decency I must force myself to hope they never experience persecution for the profession they pretend to be part of.
the communist way, one vote one time, kill, exile or imprison the opposition. We'll see the same in Mexico soon. Not that Mexico was ever anything other than a one party state.