Amendments bar ‘traitors to the homeland’ from political organizations, electoral candidacies, and public office.

Forty-six years ago, over 60,000 young people and 30,000 adults mostly from urban areas, received basic training in teaching literary before being assigned to rural communities to spend five months living and working with families and teaching them to read and write. Thousands of others provided logistical support, bringing total numbers involved in the campaign to one fifth of the population. Women made up 60% of brigadistas and 50% of literacy learners.

According to the latest eruption from the Western press, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has abolished elections. The peripheral left offers another interpretation: Nicaragua is behaving as though the United States poses a threat to Nicaraguan sovereignty. How could they possibly have gotten that idea?

In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. The pledge was universally interpreted by Western media outlets as a total ban on voting, prompting hysterical interventions from the US State Dept and throughout South Florida.

In the wind-up to July 19th festivities celebrating the overthrow of its U.S.-installed puppet dictator Anastasio Somoza, the U.S. State Department issued a dire warning to travelers. Only Washington could twist the concept of a national celebration of freedom into a “demonstration.”

How Western media stripped the Nicaraguan president’s remarks of context—and handed Washington a new pretext for aggression.

Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story

Using deliberate distortion of a speech by co-president Daniel Ortega, the U.S. has kicked off a campaign to meddle in Nicaragua’s elections by erroneously announcing that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections.

Nicaragua is one of the only countries forthrightly defending its sovereignty and self-determination and is again coming under the attack of Washington and the news media it controls.

In 1979, against all odds, Sandinista guerillas pulled off the upset of the century when they overthrew the cruel Somoza dictatorship. Today, Nicaragua is still in the tournament, one up on the score board and the stands are awash with red and black Sandinista flags.