When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
According to corporate media, Noboa’s victory was clear-cut, the reasons for it were obvious and there was little reason to question the outcome.
John Perry
When Nicaragua Took Germany to Court, Media Put Nicaragua in the Dock
Establishment media seemed distracted by the “hypocrisy” of Nicaragua challenging a country whose “legitimacy as a democratic state is unassailable.”
Nicaragua’s ‘Political Prisoners’ Would Be Criminals by US Standards
The story of the 222 deportees was a further opportunity to present Nicaragua as a country suffering from extreme repression.
For Corporate Media, Sandinistas’ Electoral Success Proves Their Repressiveness
Corporate media are so in thrall to the State Department’s propaganda about Nicaragua that they can’t ask simple questions.
Nicaragua a ‘Dictatorship’ When It Follows US Lead on NGOs
Modest legal steps that would go unnoticed in most countries are—in Nicaragua’s case—clear evidence that it is “inching toward dictatorship.”
Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—or Economic Sanctions?
News outlets are ignoring the fact that, while numbers of Nicaraguan migrants have risen, so have those from almost everywhere else.
With Nicaragua, Scary Covid Projections Are More Newsworthy Than Hopeful Results
When, as the death toll in other countries grew alarmingly, Nicaragua “flattened the curve” of virus cases more quickly than its neighbors, its apparent success was ignored.
Progressive Media Promoted a False Story of ‘Conflict Beef’ From Nicaragua
Misleading and inaccurate reports about Nicaraguan beef could have drastic consequences for that country when it is already struggling to deal with US sanctions, the pandemic and the aftermath of two damaging hurricanes.
