Obama Silent to Power Grab in Nicaragua

Those of us who are actually paying attention to what's going on in the world, rather than blindly following the left-wing propaganda coming from the American Pravda, are well aware that the Obama-supported Arab Spring is a serious threat to any stability in the Muslim world.

But, what most of you do not realize, and I too was clueless about, is that Obama is also destabilizing Central America. Just like good ole Barry to spread his destruction worldwide.

While Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega steals an election after his term limit has expired, our president sits back with no objections to this outrageous grab of power. Perhaps, that is because good ole Barry has the same intentions in mind here in America.

Read from New Zeal:

Obama Sells out Latin America to Reds

"While the U.S. media remain preoccupied with unsubstantiated sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain, America is losing Nicaragua to the communists—again. The blatant stealing of the election in this Central American country has been ignored by headlines in the press proclaiming that Daniel Ortega won re-election in a landslide. The Obama Administration, which has encouraged the 'Arab Spring' process that has resulted in Islamists making gains in the Middle East, has refused so far to condemn the theft of democracy in Nicaragua.

Ortega, an accused sexual child abuser, and his communist comrades in the Sandinista movement took power in 1979 with the help of Democratic U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who said Americans had an inordinate fear of communism. Carter cut aid to the pro-American Somoza regime in Nicaragua and then proposed foreign aid for the Sandinistas. Carter also lost Iran to the fanatical Mullahs on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.

In 1990 the Sandinistas were forced to cede power and hold free elections, which they lost, in the face of a military insurgency led by the Contras, Nicaraguan freedom fighters supported by Carter’s successor, Republican President Ronald Reagan. But Ortega and his backers never went away, subverting the democratic process through infiltration, fraud and theft. They have been aided and abetted by foreign aid from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

This time, with no visible opposition from the Obama Administration, Ortega has stolen the presidential election in violation of the Nicaraguan constitution limiting a president to two terms. It is the Hugo Chavez method of seizing and maintaining power. Ortega’s cronies on the Nicaraguan Supreme Court violated the constitution and ruled that he could run for the presidency again.

The New York Times quoted Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University, as saying that Ortega’s decision to seek re-election was a 'setback for democracy in Central America' but that he 'is not the revolutionary of the 1970s.' He added that 'It would be a serious mistake for the United States to return to a new era of hostility.'

The paper forgot to note that Pastor worked for Jimmy Carter when the Sandinistas took power. He was U.S. national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean during that time. In recent years he has been promoting a 'North American Community' that would merge the economies, and perhaps the social and political systems, of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

An AP story in The Washington Post called Ortega the 'one-time Sandinista revolutionary.' But there is no evidence that Ortega has ever stopped being a revolutionary.

The website La Voz del Sandinismo highlights praise for Ortega from Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro and the Spanish Communist Party, among other Marxists and anti-American leftists.

We had to go to a foreign news source, El País, a Spanish daily newspaper, to read about the cables disclosed by WikiLeaks which document Sandinista ties to drug traffickers.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said what our media should have reported as fact—that Sunday’s election in Nicaragua 'was a complete sham.'

She explained, 'According to the Nicaraguan constitution, Ortega was not eligible to run for another term as President. But he forced his way onto the ballot through a corrupt scheme that trampled over Nicaraguan constitutional mandates. And once he forced his way onto the ballot, Ortega pulled out more tricks to make sure that he would win. He denied countless Nicaraguans the right to vote in order to stack the deck in his favor. He has clearly learned from his dictatorial buddies in the region, like [Hugo] Chavez, who is an expert at trampling democracy.'

Ros-Lehtinen said she had sent a letter to the Department of State urging the Administration to stand up to Ortega’s scheme to cling to power, adding, 'The U.S. and other responsible nations cannot recognize the outcome of this stolen election.'"


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