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An attack on Nicaragua is an attack on us all
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IT IS an irrefutable fact that the US orchestrated and financed the 2018 violent coup attempt against the democratically elected FSLN government in Nicaragua.
US spokespeople from Donald Trump to extreme right-wing politicians such as national security adviser John Bolton and the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAid, repeatedly stated their aim was to bring about “regime change” in Nicaragua.
During the 2018 coup attempt, groups disguised as civil society bodies committed to democracy, civil liberties, human rights, etc which were in fact US-funded proxies entrusted with the task of bringing down the FSLN government by means of violence.
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