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I read somewhere that the US both sent and released Lula to and from prison, they provided his team with the recordings that compromised the judge that sent him to prison, for a charge that they initiated. Lula is their Trojan horse to BRICS.

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In addition to Brazil, in Latin America Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia offered the more than 200 opponents exiled from the country and stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality political asylum and their nationality.

This analysis is correct in the fact that Nicaragua has followed an independent and favorable foreign policy towards Russia and China that has put it in the crosshairs of the US. However, it repeats the Sandinista propaganda by describing many of the dissidents as "traitors", such as the poet Gioconda Belli, who do not represent a real threat to the Managua government and were in fact part of the Sandinista movement that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.

Even former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who cannot be accused of supporting the US, has considered the latest repressive measures adopted by President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice-President, Rosario Murillo, to be excessive. One must wonder what the end of their government will be like, after years in power and increasingly arbitrary elections, arranged in favor of the "presidential couple" by jailing opponents who agreed to play within the rules established by the system. Even Ortega has distanced himself from his brother Humberto, the former commander-in-chief of the Sandinista armed forces.

Let's be frank, the repression of Ortega/Murillo represents a risk of instability in the medium and long term for Nicaragua and the Central American region as in the era of the dictatorships imposed by the US, which unfortunately, paradoxically, plays in favor of Washington itself.

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Andrew's only lens to view any country is via pro-Russianism/Anti-Americanism. Hence the juvenile hot takes that make up this blog.

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Please be careful about Romulus Maya, from Duplo Expresso

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Se você estiver certo, Koribko, minha decepção será das maiores.

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