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Latin America

GatoGordo

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1. Pretty sad when a disabled 80 year old lawyer has to fear for his life

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2019, 12:46 PM

Jan 2019

But that is the new norm in Nicaragua.

I have friends there who report in regularly. The towns are filled with red-shirted Ortega supporters with guns (in a nation where gun ownership is illegal, except for police and military) who are only too happy to curb stomp any dissenters. The local police, who are outnumbered and outgunned by these paramilitary types can only look the other way, at best.

Every alcalde (mayor) must now swear fealty to Ortega and his Sandinista henchmen... or else.

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Pretty sad when a disabled 80 year old lawyer has to fear for his life GatoGordo Jan 2019 #1