Posted on 07/18/2018 5:00:11 PM PDT by matt1234
Nicaraguan national police and armed pro-government civilians laid siege Tuesday to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that has recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government.
Government forces began advancing on the Monimbo neighborhood of Masaya city before dawn and had largely regained control of it by the afternoon for the first time since massive protests against Ortega's government began in mid-April.
Youths fired homemade mortars from behind barriers of stacked paving stones pried from streets lined by single-story homes and artisan workshops in the town about 16 miles southeast of the capital, Managua.
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Now the same a-hole that ruined the country in the 1980s is doing it again. Just sad.
Yep!
We lived in Managua back in 2004 and enjoyed going to Masaya to wander around the beautiful, modern shopping mall then hit a really good sushi restaurant nearby.
All these ‘socialist’ Bernie supporters need to spend time in Nicaragua or some other would be ‘workers paradise’ with ‘social justice’ and ‘income redistribution’>
It’s always amazing to see people on HGTV buying retirement or vacation homes in places like Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala. What are they thinking?
That they have limited funds, limited time on Earth and are rolling the Dice on a few years of peaceful living in very pretty surroundings? Sometimes those shows have younger Families seeking the same, can't vouch for their rational.
... armed pro-government civilians ...
Thugs. Thugs doing Ortega’s dirty work.
Call them for who they are, you Californicated Press Pimps for the left. F*ck all of you. Pendejos. Hijos de putas.
Can we do something similar in Portland?
Reagan wanted to finish off the Ortega communists. Democrats forced the Boland amendment to prevent his strategy. Talk about collusion and alignment with communist Russia . . .
Something like that might be required at some point, especially if the local government keeps refusing to enforce the law.
Where is that communist front Amnesty International on this?
It’s always amazing to see people on HGTV buying retirement or vacation homes in places like Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala. What are they thinking?
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That’s right...they can get far better deals in Venezuela! ;-)
Yes and after a long difficult, bloody effort to rid themselves of this plague, ortega.the stoopids of Nicaragua voted to return his marxist ass to power,
Sort of like us twice electing the America hating socialist magic negro you get what you vote for.
I’ve seen some of the shows. The people are criminally stupid and naïve.
Too busy agitating for infanticide.
The Sandinistas and Ortega got back in because they had the help of Greg Craig, same guy who helped rig the election for Biden here.
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