{"id":387567,"date":"2021-11-13T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=195498"},"modified":"2021-11-13T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T14:47:14","slug":"nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/13\/nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua Has A Public Relations Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managua, Nicaragua - US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of \u201ca pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.\u201d Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don\u2019t even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly more than democracy is at issue with the US offensive against Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is what Biden described as \u201cthe arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40\u00a0opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates.\u201d An objective investigation reveals: (1) the motivation for the arrests had nothing to do with the election and (2) the effects of the arrests had no impact on the election.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem\/\">Nicaragua Has A Public Relations Problem<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managua, Nicaragua &#8211; US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of \u201ca pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.\u201d Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,5722,94,1019,6652],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387568,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387567\/revisions\/387568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}