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Latin America

GatoGordo

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2. These protests are driven from the bottom up. This has ZERO to do with our incompetent POTUS

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 06:46 AM

Apr 2018

Students. Workers. Even business people (!) who supported Ortega are tired of the repression and the rollbacks on liberty and democracy. People are being killed for merely SAYING they want Ortega and his wife (the Vice President... nepotism anyone?) to stop with the Marxist/Leninist tactics.

It is a shame that US citizens have to evacuate, but that is the situation in CubaZuela BoliviAgua these days.

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Don't Worry RockRaven Apr 2018 #1

These protests are driven from the bottom up. This has ZERO to do with our incompetent POTUS GatoGordo Apr 2018 #2