Nicaragua Convicts Seven of President Ortega’s Opponents in Mass Trial
A Sandinista judge Wednesday convicted seven Nicaraguan political and business leaders, including three would-be presidential candidates, of conspiring to damage the country's sovereignty, a charge akin to treason.
Prosecutors have requested sentences from [eight] to [13] years in prison
The verdicts in the first mass trial of President Daniel Ortega’s opponents came days after [27] members of the [Organization of American States], the Western Hemisphere’s most important regional group, denounced the deteriorating human rights conditions in Nicaragua and are a sign that Mr. Ortega is tightening his grip on power despite growing international isolation.
Feb. 23, 2022 [11:09] pm
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nicaragua-convicts-seven-of-president-ortegas-opponents-in-mass-trial-11645675796
Chinese Propaganda vs Soros Propaganda?
Nicaragua: A Renewed Partnership with China Defangs US Regime Change Tactics
On November 19, following the re-election of President Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan government announced its withdrawal from the US-dominated [Organization of American States (OAS)]
Revisiting the 2018 [Attempted Coup], and the [US media] supported narrative
documented evidence that the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation received more than $7 million of the $10 million funneled to Nicaraguan opposition media from the US’s soft-power arm the US Agency for International Development’s [(USAID)] between 2014 and 2021.
The majority of this funding was distributed amongst some 25 publications including Chamorro Foundation-owned outlets that are widely quoted by the international press and elite US think tanks like the [Open Society Foundation]
Ben Gutman is an independent writer, researcher, and [organizer] pursuing an MA in Global Communication from The George Washington University.
January 20, 2022
https://www.coha.org/nicaragua-a-renewed-partnership-with-china-defangs-us-regime-change-tactics/
'We've all banded together': Students launch bipartisan protest against university's China investments
Students from The George Washington University College Republicans and College Democrats chapters are jointly protesting the school's investments in companies that may be complicit in the Uyghur genocide.
February 16, 2022
https://campusreform.org/article?id=19022
Three months ago, the ECLJ revealed the fact that the Council of Europe, on which the ECHR depends, was receiving private funding, in particular from the Open Society.
The [Organisation of American States (OAS)], on which the Inter-American Court depends, also receives such private funding.
11 months ago
https://eclj.org/abortion/un/conflict-of-interest-at-the-inter-american-court-of-human-rights
many Open Society Institute Latin America Program partners had participated in the OAS as watchdogs for democracy, social justice, and human rights.
June 22, 2010
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/protecting-civil-society-latin-america
WEAK INSTITUTIONS A THREAT TO OPEN SOCIETY, GEORGE SOROS TELLS INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE AT OAS
“The collapse of a closed system (or a totalitarian regime) does not automatically lead to an open society,” George Soros, the internationally renowned investor, philanthropist, Soros Fund Management chairman and Open Society Institute founder told an international audience at the [Organization of American States (OAS)].
October 4, 2006
https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-209/06
GEORGE SOROS IS KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR OAS LECTURE SERIES OF THE AMERICAS:
“CHALLENGES TO OPEN SOCIETY”
28 Sept 2006
https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=AVI-086/06