Nicaragua in "undeclared state of siege" as hooded gunmen rule the streets
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article215568330.html
Managua, Nicaragua - They ride in the back of Toyota double-cabin pickup trucks, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. No one knows their identities. They always wear black ski masks or hoods.
The gunmen - between 1,000 and 1,500 of them, according to some estimates - are part of a recently formed paramilitary force protecting the continued rule of President Daniel Ortega against a three-month-old civilian uprising. Their main tactic is terror. They conduct roundups, fire at protesters, carry out dark-of-night raids and menace the population. ...
"President Daniel Ortega" (and don't forget the current Vice President of Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega's wife, Rosario Murillo) ... that would be Daniel Ortega ... the Communist dictator of "Sandinista" infamy who tried to take over El Salvador until President Ronald Reagan stopped him ... friend of Hugo Chavez - and presumably of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well.
Uniformed police often accompany the paramilitary forces but it is the militias who are better armed. They carry high-caliber rifles, including ones with telescopic sights. One was photographed with a rocket-propelled grenade. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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