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NICARAGUA warned today of an attack on its people as the US imposed harsh economic sanctions in its latest attempt to oust the democratically elected Sandinista government.
The US senate voted on Tuesday to approve the passing of the controversial Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA), which allows Washington to veto loans to Nicaragua from international financial institutions that are entirely used for development of the country.
US President Donald Trump also signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Nicaraguan Vice-President Rosario Murillo and presidential security adviser Nestor Moncada Lau, claiming that Nicaragua “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS