Real hopeful. Maybe Lurch could 'splain it all to us.
Posted on 12/31/2023 12:40:16 PM PST by MtnClimber
The more people Ortega can drive out of his country, the richer and more oppressive he gets.
With Joe Biden's migrant surge, migrant remittances follow, and some very baleful developments are happening abroad.
The one that stands out is that of Marxist socialist Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's little dictator, who along with a string of failed leaders before him, impoverished his country in relative obscurity, leaving it the hemisphere's second-poorest after Haiti. The country boasts a per capita income of about $2,200 per year which is lower than even Cubans are paid, and hard as heck to live on even in a low-cost country. A Nicaraguan can live on welfare in the states more richly -- and nearly a half a million of them from that country of 7 million already do. And as poverty has engulfed that country, Ortega then began dismantling political freedoms -- first with stolen elections -- then with making himself permanently electable in rigged elections and appointing his relatives to keep posts. Don't think there won't be more Nicaraguans leaving that place for those reasons -- they're coming, and already are well represented in the current migrant surge.
The migrant remittances tell the story.
In 2021, the State Department reported that Nicaragua took in a 'record' remittance haul of $1.2 billion.
It doubled in 2022.
Now it's doubled again, in 2023. According to a report from Reuters:
Nicaraguan migrants sent relatives back home record remittances this year through November, data from the country's central bank showed on Wednesday, fueled by massive waves of migration leaving the Central American nation in recent years.
In a statement, the bank noted a record haul of about $4.24 billion in remittances for the 11-month period, 47% more than the amount sent home during the same period last year.
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We are importing hoards that have been trained to hate white people. How is that supposed to work out?
“How is that supposed to work out? “
Exactly as planned?
They need to tax remittances 50%, or stop them altogether
Real hopeful. Maybe Lurch could 'splain it all to us.
Sounds like they need to be taxed heavily.
Looky there. It’s Tom Harkin and his lovely Deep State attorney wife, Ruth.
He got his 3 ti ti's and shipped back to the USA,,,
Then protested the war...
The guy was and is a POS.
How much $$ from those $5000 debit cards that the Hussein O’Biden administration is giving out gets sent out of the USA as remittances?
Asking for a friend.......
We hired a guide and got to know him quite well, he was college educated, but the best job he could get was working with tourists and getting “hard currency” from them. He told us about a brother who had left Nicaragua to live and work in Costa Rico and their eco-tourist industry. His brother did this so he could send money back to the family and his wife and children. It was hard on everyone, but it helped them all survive economically.
What is happening is not new, but been the norm for a long time in Nicaragua.
In the 90s I spoke with a guy who was Costa Rican. He did business in all the Central American countries, I think as a Coke sales rep. He said Nicaragua was the least pleasant. The people were so ideological, so humorless.
So, do they send their welfare checks and government handouts home?
America’s woke Democrats and deep-state have given him a knife to stab the USA, and he’s gonna use it.
He’s the moron who got a purple heart for “accidentally” shooting himself in the ass with an M-79 grenade launcher.
It has been a while since I mentioned this book by Shirley Christian: Nicaragua - A Revolution in the Family. It is a fantastic read. She describes the epitome of Socialism, Communism. Before Ortega took over the first time, there were thriving Farmers Markets in the big cities and little towns/villages. Farmers and ranchers would bring their products to sell and barter. The day after the commies took power, no farmer markets anymore. All the food was now the “people’s food.” Just like in every other socialist hell hole, the commies get to live in the lap of luxury. Any farmer who was found to have more than he ‘needed’ was arrested and labeled as a hoarder.
Ortega must shop at the same haberdashery as Fidel.
So weird to see the looks of pure adoration on our people’s faces.
Read differently....but nonetheless he is and was a moron.
Not true at all about average Nicaraguan. I and son worked there with orphans & street kids around ‘08/’09 & he married a Nica girl. They lived there for a few years after Ortega was elected with 33% of the vote because two “conservatives” fought and wouldn’t unite.
Nicaragua is the least violent of all Central American countries and the people very loving in general - especially the poor - who make our poorest here look rich.
We send $$ there regularly to poor servants of God. Their need is great, but you never hear if from them.....
Yeah.
Daniel Ortega, grungy rock star.
Harkin’s wife especially. She thinks he’s the Marxist Baghwan.
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