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1 Nov, 9 tweets, 6 min read
The political censorship is so blatant: Tonight, one week before elections in Nicaragua, Facebook/Instagram suspended the accounts of many prominent leftist Sandinista journalists, activists, and media outlets

I know numerous people whose accounts were suspended at the same time
It's obvious there's a coordinated social media purge of leftist Sandinistas going on, mere days before Nicaragua's November 7 election

First Twitter suspended many popular Sandinistas. Now Facebook/Instagram suspended more, including media outlets' pages
In a coordinated purge tonight Facebook/Instagram suspended the accounts of major Sandinista media outlets in Nicaragua:
@RedVolucion1979: facebook.com/Redvolucionnic
@Barricada79: facebook.com/barricada79

Also the Sandinista Communicators Network @somosredjs: facebook.com/redjovenescomu…
Tonight Facebook-owned Instagram purged many Sandinista accounts:
Barricada: instagram.com/barricada79
Redvolución: instagram.com/redvolucionnic
Red de Comunicadores: instagram.com/somosredjs

They even suspended the popular fashion organization Nicaragua Diseña: instagram.com/nicaragua_dise…
Facebook/Instagram & Twitter purging Sandinistas mere days before Nicaragua's election, which the US refuses to recognize, isn't a coincidence

Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations act as arms of the US gov't, obediently censoring targets of US imperialism
thegrayzone.com/2021/09/24/us-…
It's not just Sandinista media outlets that were suspended; I know many individuals in Nicaragua whose accounts were purged

It might not sound like a big deal, but they spent many hours of work doing journalism and sharing info. Facebook/Instagram and Twitter deleted all of that
This is the message Facebook sent to a Nicaraguan journalist friend of mine. It gave no reason why she was purged, saying "For security reasons we can't tell you why your account was removed"

Her "crime" according to the US Thought Police at @Facebook/@Meta? Being pro-Sandinista
The social media purge of Sandinista media outlets and journalists was timed with this 60 Minutes propaganda -- which might as well have been written by the US government, because it's just State Department disinformation, featuring US-funded coup-plotters
Several of the censored Sandinista outlets have already created new Facebook pages, and say they are "in the digital trenches" to "defend the revolution":
Barricada: facebook.com/barricada2
Redvolución: facebook.com/redvolucionnica
Red de Comunicadores: facebook.com/rdcomunicadores

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1 Nov
Here is Nicaraguan Sandinista activist Ligia Sevilla @ligiasevilla_, who was censored by Facebook

@Meta falsely claimed she's a "fake account," part of a government-run "troll farm"

Will Facebook retract its false claims and restore her account?
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This is another Nicaraguan Sandinista supporter, Daniela Cienfuegos @dani100sweet, an activist in the Red de Jóvenes Comunicadores, which Facebook/Instagram suspended and falsely claimed is a gov't bot farm.

Any comment from @Meta?
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And here is Nicaraguan Sandinista activist Franklin Ruiz G. @ElChequelito, whose personal account was censored by Facebook, which falsely claimed he is a government-run bot/troll.

Still no comment on this political censorship by
@Meta
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29 Oct
Twitter's politically motivated censorship is again targeting Latin American leftists:

Influential Nicaraguan Sandinista supporters @ElCuervoNica and @FloryCantoX were suspended

This is the SECOND time the US government thought police at Twitter suspended @FloryCantoR's account
The US government thought police at Twitter hired a right-wing Mexican political operative to censor leftists in Latin America
thegrayzone.com/2021/01/24/mex…
Twitter recently admitted its algorithm promotes right-wing politicians and media outlets in numerous countries
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28 Oct
This coup-supporting right-wing US propagandist -- who spreads constant fake news demonizing Nicaragua, its people, and their elected Sandinista govt -- is now spouting anti-vax disinfo against the *more effective* Russian and Cuban vaccines

Shills like him worship the US empire
Over a million Nicaraguans have gotten vaccinated, with no problems. But a few hundred (mostly wealthy right-wing opposition supporters) traveled to Honduras to get US vaccines because they listen to coup-supporting propagandists like this & worship the US
The major Western medical journal Lancet acknowledged Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is safe and 92% effective. It's also effective the Delta variant.

But the US and its puppets around the world keep spreading anti-vax propaganda to score geopolitical points
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23 Oct
My brother works in the film industry and is active in the union @IATSE, so I asked him about Alec Baldwin being given a loaded gun and accidentally killing director of photography (DP) Halyna Hutchins.

He explained that it's a result of union busting, scabs, and negligence
Hours before Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer, camera crew workers walked off the set to protest bad working conditions

They faced grueling hours, long commutes and lack of safety protocols

There were 3 prop gun misfires before
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Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting and killing his cinematographer was the tragic result of producers abusing their workers and not respecting safety protocols

Unionized workers walked off the set to protest dangerous conditions. So producers hired non-union, unexperienced scabs
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14 Oct
Peru's President Castillo had a falling out with his socialist Perú Libre party. It now refuses to give a vote of confidence to his new cabinet

It warns of "a clear political turn of the gov't and its cabinet toward the center-right," with neoliberal operatives funded by US NGOs
Peru's new President Pedro Castillo has been gradually moving to the right. Spain's state-backed media outlet EFE praised Castillo for "distancing himself from the [socialist] Perú Libre party and reinforcing the moderate wing of the government"
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Peru's President Castillo fired socialist Prime Minister Guido Bellido, and remade his cabinet with numerous centrists

This has led former supporters in the leftist Perú Libre party to accuse Castillo of "betrayal"

Just 3 months in, it's not looking good
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When Ecuador's socialist President Rafael Correa was in power, there was constant propaganda absurdly claiming he "trapped the nation in Chinese debt"

But in just 4 years of US-backed IMF-loving neoliberals in power, they hugely expanded the debt-to-GDP ratio from 26.6% to 68.9%
Under socialist President Correa, Ecuador built new high-tech infrastructure, rapidly developing the country with the help of China

The corrupt authoritarian right-wing US puppets in power in the past 4 years have DE-developed Ecuador, trapping it in IMF debt, robbing its assets
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Washington claimed it would "help" Ecuador pay off its debt to China, while in reality nearly tripling its debt in 4 years, but now with US debt instead of Chinese
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