The Nicaraguan dictatorship has removed the legal status of the civil society opposition party PRD leaving the business alliance CxL as its only opposition in November's elections. Basic divide-and-rule, IOW.
https://twitter.com/PiruloAr/status/1394823214283599875
The decision immediately followed a complaint by evangelical leaders that the PRD is "acting contrary to their Christian principles," by making an electoral alliance with feminist organisations, sexual diversity organisations and others of the National Coalition.
"What is clear is the motivation of the dictatorship to eliminate the social sectors that moved the floor in April 2018, especially civil society, and keep playing with more flexible sectors."
https://twitter.com/PiruloAr/status/1394792317937192960
Ortega/Murillo have relied on the support of business & the church to survive. And so it goes on with LGBT inclusion in civil society being deployed as an excuse to resist opposition unity. Awful.
cafeconvoz.com/2021/05/18/imp…
cafeconvoz.com/2021/05/18/imp…
LGBT civil society organisations have been repressed along with everyone else who supported the rebellion in 2018, with their leaderships forced into exile. The right wing opposition to Ortega/Murillo wants them disowned too.
To summarise: a group of Nicaraguan pastors complained to the electoral authority that the civil society coalition was "betraying Christian values" by including feminists & gayz and as a result the coalition's party has lost its slot for the Presidential elections in November.
Reporting in english. Doesn't mention feminists or gayz.
laprensalatina.com/nicaraguas-ele…
laprensalatina.com/nicaraguas-ele…
More from @cefeche on the divide-and-rule that is working brilliantly for the dictatorship "due to arrogance, sectarianism, or political ineptitude."
confidencial.com.ni/opinion/el-peo…
confidencial.com.ni/opinion/el-peo…
As the Nicaraguan regime blocks political parties at the request of anti-gay evangelicals, UK trade-unions fund other worldly propaganda about 'democracy'.
https://twitter.com/NSCAG_UK/status/1394606490758025217
Background on the mutually beneficial relationship between Nicaraguan evangelicals and the Ortega/Murillo dictatorship.
https://twitter.com/tomodachi1977/status/1395078341271691273
Background from @jucabow on the banning of parties that is going on in Nicaragua. Today, the offices in Managua of @confidencial_ni has been raided & journos arrested by the dictatorship.
confidencial.com.ni/english/ortega…
confidencial.com.ni/english/ortega…
“They are not going to shut us up, they can steal other television cameras, other accessories, they can occupy a room where we had made some productions, but we will continue to inform, they will not to silence our journalists.” - @cefeche
confidencial.com.ni/nacion/carlos-…
confidencial.com.ni/nacion/carlos-…
'With total violence they cornered us and took cell phones. My colleague René Lucia was persecuted and attacked. As we were several journalists, they could not arrest all of us because we dispersed. A plainclothes policeman was leading the riot police.'
https://twitter.com/PiruloAr/status/1395433225288310799
The contextualisation here by AP is bizarre.
uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/nicaragua…
uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/nicaragua…
'The moment the police follow us to arrest us for recording the assault on @confidencial_ni. We were an international press group. Not all of us managed to evade them… Luis Sequeira is still in prison.'
https://twitter.com/PiruloAr/status/1395437213027082242
Today, Nicaraguans and Cubans and Venezuelans have been promoting #AmericaSinDictaduras Solidarity against the Americas remaining dictatorships. Here's @pxmolina's cartoon
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