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Nicaragua seizes $7m from fake reporters
AAP August 25, 2012, 3:09 pm
Nicaraguan police found about $US7 million ($A6.73 million) in smuggled cash in vans driven by people posing as members of a Mexican television news crew, national police chief Aminta Granera says.
The 18 people travelling in six vans were detained on Wednesday at Nicaragua's northern border with Honduras, after they entered Nicaragua saying they had come to cover the trial of suspects linked to the 2011 killing of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.
That trial involves accusations of massive money laundering.
Some of the vans were painted with the logo of Mexico's Televisa network, which said it has no connection to the suspects.
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Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...among the leftist governments in Latin America whom they hate, in their confab in 2010, even before that Puke Congress was seated.
They're still relishing the murder and mayhem inflicted on Nicaraguans during the Reagan horrors and desperately want to have that kind of 'fun' again, killing leftist teachers and mayors. And it really bites their ass that the very entity they were trying to crush in Nicaragua, then--the Sandanistas--got elected to run the government.
So it surprises me not at all that the dirty tricks and the black ops have begun and that disinformationist thugs have entered the country. I hope that the Nicaraguan authorities are able to track this $7 million to its true source. CIA laundered through Miami Mafia banks? (That would be my first guess--though, these days, there are so many quasi-national and quasi-private dirty tricksters and black opsters out there, I'm using "CIA" in a generic way to indicate any and all Murder, Inc.-type entities that serve the transglobal corporate rich and war profiteers.)
I also hope that they figure out what this $7 million was FOR. Fake reporters don't need that kind of money for fake reporting. Was it for introducing rightwing death squads from Honduras or Colombia, into Nicaragua? That's how it worked before--the death squads mustered in the U.S. client state of Honduras and used Honduras as their stepping stool into neighboring Nicaragua (the "contra" war). Honduras is now a U.S. client state once again--assured by the fascist coup d'etat there in 2009--and rife with death squads who are murdering leftists and journalists with impunity. Maybe they've terrorized Hondurans sufficiently now and are idling around with not enough victims to choose from and are itching to go after leftists and journalists in Nicaragua, as before--or perhaps this $7 million was for 'growing' some local capability? One other possibility is that the 18 people in the six vans are themselves killers and destabilizers and the money was for buying weapons and other resources, once inside Nicaragua.