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Paul Canning

7 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read

Ben Norton claimed a Spanish aid agency was funding 'regime change' in Nicaragua. The Spanish agency say he's citing a faked document that the Ortega regime has tried to use against them before.
despacho505.com/aecid-desmient…

https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1401865212341456899

Norton's recycling of Ortega/Murillo 'CIA regime change' claims includes this 👇

https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1401865212341456899

ht @NICACAJUN

https://twitter.com/AmigosTierraEsp/status/1400149714956263424

More Spanish aid agency regime change efforts.

https://twitter.com/AmigosTierraEsp/status/1400149714956263424

https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1380103828947746817

Ben Norton reproducing Orteguista propaganda is not new. His coronavirus 'reporting' faithfully followed the line.

https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1380103828947746817

@laprimerisima

Here's journalists in Nicaragua last November reporting on the faked documents used by Orteguista radio station @laprimerisima against the Spanish aid agency. And now recycled by Ben Norton.
confidencial.com.ni/nacion/documen…

Rosario Murillo on the Nicaraguan journalists she wants arrested: "They received money full of blood, bloody, money to kill, smash, subordinate, generate chaos, unrest, money to destroy ... they will pay." Ben Norton backs Murillo.
cafeconvoz.com/2021/06/07/ros…

@AECID_es

Well here's a thing. The journal of the Cuban jounalists official body republishing Ben Norton, complete with his use of fake documents about the Spanish aid agency @AECID_es cubaperiodistas.cu/index.php/2021…

To complete the circle of BS generation, the Orteguista Radio La Primerísima also republishes Norton, complete with the fake documents *they'd published 8 months ago*.😵‍💫
el19digital.com/articulos/ver/…

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