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.