Nan McCurdy, May 28th 2018
The Regime Change attempt has never stopped since early 2018, or earlier. It peaked from April to July 2018, and since April 2020 there has been another peak.
Vice President Rosario Murillo denounced this coup attempt on April 28th 2020 noting:
Vice President Rosario Murillo denounced this coup attempt on April 28th 2020 noting:
"Above all, how lies and calumnies can be made to seem true and lead in any part of the world, to cruelty, to perversity, to the death of human beings. We may all very wel wonder how a World can possibly be just where people calmny and defame and where we are overwhelmed with falsehoods wishing to wipre out the Common Good, that Good which should unite us all as one with all the other human beings on this plane of Life. False news, calumnies that seek to inflame the People, really mount to lynchings...That framework is repeating itself today...When they want to mount a coup d'etat or exclude some policita figure from participatingfalse news in elections, this is what happens, false news, calumnies and then arbitrary passing of judgment...These are social lynchings... deriving from the avalanche of false news, creating or trying to create opinions and very often it doesn't work. However, its becoming normal to create opinions based on false news between different Peoples and also as a way of managing to condemn people who upset us"
A regime change attempt does not start with people on the streets but with discrediting and smearing the government, the police, the army and or, in this case, the Health Ministry.
Currently every opposition media outlet and member, the Costa Rican government and media, international organizations such as the Inter American Commission for Human Rights and the European Union, and of course the United States and its corporate media, are working together 24/7 to besmirch Nicaragua's incredible example in fighting this pandemic.
The immediate objective of the US is to create the narrative internationally that Nicaragua is invaded by the virus and that this is the fault of the government. I expand more on this below.
The CIDH yesterday said that Nicaragua is hiding cases. They only listen to the opposition and have not been here this year.
The local media (Confidencial, La Prensa, Onda Local, Radio Corporacion, Channel 10, 100% Noticias, Channel 12, etc) are trying to create a scenario or idea that the hospitals are overflowing.
They fabricate fake news by saying that their journalists have COVID-19 and went to a hospital and the hospital didn't have a bed for them. In reality, the hospitals and the ICUs have beds and are far from overflowing.
They want to sell the idea internationally that the health system has collapsed and if you read what the CIDH wrote or what other international media write, that will be your understanding.
They keep putting out fake announcements of people dying and then the families have to come out and deny the fake news.
Another example of the sensationalism they are creating is the death of a well known Radio Corporation reporter who died, supposedly, with COVID-19. The opposition media filmed his funeral. In the video you can hear someone (the idea is that it is the wife) saying that his death is Daniel Ortega's fault. This gets played over and over on all the opposition media and on facebook.
That is the narrative - every death is a Covid-19 death and all deaths are the fault of Daniel and Rosario. And, in fact, now the narrative includes that all deaths in Costa Rica are the fault of Daniel and Rosario. It is absurd and cruel.
Because of all the US-led and funded opposition here, in Costa Rica and the US, Nicaragua is held to a higher standard than other nations in relation to Covid.
This is psychological warfare on a massive scale. The objective is to say that this government can't govern, by blaming all deaths on the FSLN, claiming our health system is collapsing, claiming we are hiding cases and deaths of Covid by setting up these fake "health consortiums" like the one that Dora Maria Tellez heads up.
Also, just like we witnessed in the 2018 coup attempt, false flag attacks are back. About a month ago, deputy Wilfredo Navarro accused Channel 10 of hiring trucks to drive near cemeteries at night with empty coffins in the truck beds, while opposition actors played "MINSA health workers" as others filmed. Keep in mind this was done while we only had very few imported cases and no more than 4 deaths- trying to prepare the narrative that the government was hiding cases and deaths.
Currently there are some people being buried at night in what we call "express burials" but this is not being hidden, MINSA talks about it openly, as this is one of the WHO's guidelines being followed all over the world.
MINSA gives the family of people who died from or with Covid (as well as anyone who dies of pneumonia for any reason, just in case it might have been Covid) the option to cremate, in which case they can do their service whenever; or they can bury their loved one. If they want to bury them, it needs to be done right away. So if someone dies between 6pm and 3am, they are going to be buried at night. In the US they don't ever give the bodies to the family with the option of burial.
As of Tuesday there had been 35 probable Covid deaths, and among them some pretty well-known older folks with at least two pre-existing conditions. Thus, it was easy for the opposition to make a big deal of the deaths, really amplifying them to the point that you would think there had already been 200 deaths!
And if you read our article from Wednesday's NicaNotes and the investigation I did of how the numbers increase once it is in the community - we will now see a doubling of numbers every three days till we hit the peak. So by next Tuesday, June 2, we should have about 3200 cases, although the lighter cases may not go to or call MINSA and so not get counted.
Many people have fallen for the fake news and the sensationalism. Despite all the education and prevention done by the government, there is a percentage of people who really believe all of this and they are TERRIFIED. The opposition has many of them thinking that if they get COVID they will die. With all the psychological warfare they have forgotten that 85% of those who get COVID will not be sick at all, or have a light or medium case of it.
The opposition and their journalists are clearly requesting US intervention. Here is what very anti-Sandinista 'journalist' Gabriela Selser just posted (Gabriela is working for Associated Press and lives near a friend. Along with other people, this friend says Selser is very anti-Sandinista and fabricates everything from hearsay as she never leaves her home).
And about Selser's post, another friend wrote this:
Translation: We want a humanitarian intervention in a UN framework with Blue Helmet forces, which is why they want a health audit, because that is the ploy, to get a document from the Panamerican Health Organization or the World Health Organization of the kind issued by the Organization of American States during it audit in Bolivia. In this context it's a legal tool for invading forces against a boycotted country under constant aggression seeking the national and international humiliation of the country, of teh army, of teh Sandinista People, without mentioning what might happen to our Comandante Daniel."