Tag: Nicaragua
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The U.S. Pisses on the OAS Charter
Let’s just say what we all know to be true: The United States pisses on international law. Period. There is something called the Charter of the Organization of the American States (OAS). The OAS is a continental organization that was founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its…
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Woodrow Wilson Teaches Democracy to Latin America
Woodrow Wilson is often portrayed as the model statesman, uniting countries in pleas for peace. After all, he created the League of Nations, and fought in a noble war alongside the British, French, and Russians during WW1. This is what we are led to believe in schools. He was nothing of the sort. Wilson was…
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The US on the “Selective Use of Violence for Propagandistic Effects”
During Nicaragua’s civil war in the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) commissioned a manual for the rebel contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. It was made public in October 1984. On October 21, 1984, the Washington Post published an article titled: The CIA’s Murder Manual: THE CIA…
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World Court: U.S. is Guilty of International Terrorism
Hi, In 1986, the United States was found guilty by the International Court of Justice of breaching international law by engaging in international terrorism. The case is known the Case Concerning the Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America). The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has its seat…
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Nicaragua: The First Real American Coup
During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the ideals of social and political reform swept across Central America. Visionary leaders, inspired by European philosophers and nation builders, sought to wipe away the feudal systems that had frozen their countries into immobility. One of them, President José Santos Zelaya of Nicaragua, took his nationalist principles…