October 30, 2007 by votepornadie.com.

By Mickey Dodson

I have worked (and lived part time) in Nicaragua for just over ten years, but I am still a citizen of the U.S., and stay abreast of what’s happening at home. Viewed from a distance, perhaps the vision is different than a close up look. What I see concerns me.

I came to Nicaragua the first time in 1984 on assignment to do a photo layout, and spent two months in Managua and traveling throughout the country. I was surprised by what I saw. It didn’t match anything I had read in print or seen on television news.

I returned to Nicaragua a decade later because I felt strongly that the truth had never been told to the American public, and I wanted to write an honest history of the years of revolution and counter-revolution that had taken the country to its knees.

It took ten years of research, interviews with hundreds of Nicas who had lived the experience, and interviews with some former members of U.S. government agencies to fully uncover a clear picture of what happened, and because of the fear of the people who were involved, the book I wrote was written as fiction. But it does tell the accurate history, and that story is horrifying.

Our government supported a group of terrorists – the Guardia Nacional – in brutalizing the Nicaraguan citizens for ten years until those citizens finally gave up, cried uncle, and voted for a president that the U.S. government supported.

By that time the country was in economic devastation, the people poorer than they had been at the time of the revolution, and the elite had their wealth safely secured in Miami banks. The government elected in 1990 took swift action to shut down the programs instigated by the rebel government designed to improve quality of life. Reading schools and free medical clinics were closed, never to be reopened.

Is history repeating itself. Many of the same people who were involved with the Reagan administration in destroying this Central American country are today involved with the Bush administration.

In the 1980’s in Nicaragua that administration called its action a war against communism although there was never any valid indication that the FSLN (Sandinistas) were communist. The U.S. government used paid terrorists they called Contras to brutalize the Nicaraguan population into voting their way. Today they call it a war on terrorism and are repeating the actions taken in Nicaragua, only it is the citizens of Iraq who are now under the heel of the most powerful nation in the world.

Are we tyrants? Surely not. If not, why are we allowing our government to repeat tyrannical actions?

Authors Bio: I’m a writer living in Granada, Nicaragua. I first visited Nicaragua in 1984 and was surprised to find things very different from what we Americans had been allowed to read in the press. I returned her in 1994 to live and work and write a history of what happened here. The truth I discovered was frightening and made me think hard about what kind of government we have in the U.S.

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February 28, 2007 by votepornadie.com.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

US policy makers are pressuring Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to destroy the county’s air defense system, according to Reuters and the Associated Press.

Nicaragua’s air defense once consisted of 2000 Russian made surface-to-air-missiles. About half of them have already been destroyed, but the rest remain operational. The US government believes that the missiles should be destroyed in order to prevent terrorists from stealing them.

Nicaraguan officials argue that they need the missiles to defend themselves from a military buildup in Honduras, which recently bought eight military planes from the US. Honduras claims that the planes purchased are only earmarked to be used fighting the war on drugs.
 

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February 28, 2007 by votepornadie.com.

Managua, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) The Nicaraguan energy sector that has undergone a serious crisis with long and disrupted blackouts, is one of the Sandinista government main priorities today.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega considered the “original sin” was committed by neoliberal governments that privatized electricity after the Sandinistas electoral defeat in 1990.

To change the situation and safeguard national interests, the new authorities announced a revision of concessions granted to energy enterprises, which are generating less energy than promised.

According to Nicaraguan State Electricity Enterprise (ENEL) president Ernesto Martinez, the previous Enrique Bolaños government “forgot the concept of State and devoted itself to work in favor of private enterprises.”

The official told El Nuevo Diario that State authorities only managed to introduce 180 megawatts to the national electricity system in the last five years.

Ortega warned publicly that the government will take measures against foreign enterprises if they continue threats to leave the country without electricity.

To reduce the current deficit of 120 megawatts per hour the Sandinista government appealed to Venezuelan and Cuban solidarity, within the framework of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), an integration project Nicaragua has recently joined.

As part of the cooperation agreements, Caracas handed over 32 electrical plants with generating capacity of 60 megawatts which installation will be done by Cuban specialists.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B659ABE39-7991-4595-BDED-D95348221A4D%7D)&language=EN

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