Leaked cables say Nicaragua government took bribes

[Bacchus39]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_wikileaks_nicaragua


Leaked cables say Nicaragua government took bribes
By IVAN MORENO, Associated Press Ivan Moreno, Associated Press – 1 hr 55 mins ago
MEXICO CITY – U.S. diplomats accuse Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government of taking bribes from drug traffickers and receiving "suitcases full of cash" from Venezuelan officials, according to confidential documents released this week by WikiLeaks.

The leaked documents from the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, allege that Ortega has used drug money to finance campaigns for the Sandinista National Liberation Front. The money from international drug traffickers is "usually in return for ordering Sandinista judges to allow traffickers caught by the police and military to go free," reads a May 5, 2006, cable from an embassy official.

The official said that in one 2005 case, a Supreme Court judge "coordinated a complicated scheme to make 609,000 dollars in drug money seized from two Colombians 'disappear' from a Supreme Court account."

Another Sandinista judge accused of complicity in the bribery scheme, Rafael Solis, denied that he took bribes, telling local Nicaraguan television station Channel 63 that the WikiLeaks documents are "baseless and have no credibility."

[Peace Patriot]

1. ANYTHING "U.S. officials" say could be "baseless and have no credibility."

We have to be very careful reading these cables for various motives, agendas, disinformation, wishful thinking and also backstabbing. I read one that was absolute B.S. about Chavez based on fourth hand hearsay--U.S. foreign service scribbler, okayed but not written by a U.S. economic emissary, reporting on what a French (Sarkozy gov't) economic emissary said a Brazlian official said about Brazil's gov't, headed by Lula da Silva, wanting to distance from Chavez. This was not long after Lula da Silva had invited the president of Iran to Brazil, after Chavez invited him to Venezuela. Fourth hand twaddle from an unidentified Brazilian official run through French agendas, the scribbler and the U.S. economic emissary back to the State Department!

This particular cable was not marked "secret" but merely "confidential" so both the scribbler and the one who signed off on it knew very well how easily it could become public. That's another thing to look out for--that the thing was written to be leaked.

My general rule for anything Bushwhacks say is that the opposite is true. This is in the process of becoming my rule of thumb for anything the Obama government says about Latin America. Another good rule for Bushwhacks is that, whatever they accuse others of doing, they are doing or planning to do. (Torture, thievery, mass murder, war, suppression of free speech, weapons trafficking, drug trafficking, etc.) We know their crimes by what they allege others are guilty of. I don't know yet if the Obama interregnum is as mindbogglingly corrupt as the Bushwhacks. They're probably not as crude and two-fisted about it. But we'll see.

Don't know which set of government assholes wrote this cable about Nicaragua but I think we can be fairly certain that it is our government bribing judges, transferring large sums of dirty CIA money around, trying to protect the Bush Cartel's drug lords, trying to destroy the leftist government of Nicaragua and so on. That's the new strategy at the CIA and Leon Panetta, in my opinion, is an old and smooth--and even suave--player at it, much better than the Bushwhacks, who couldn't pull off any of the coups they tried in Latin America (except maybe stealing Mexico's election in 2005). The Bushwhacks stomped around a lot with their nazi boots but didn't get very far, and, indeed, helped inspired an awesome leftist democracy movement that has seen the election of leftist government after leftist government, first in South America, then in Central America. I think we're going to see more topplings of democratic governments in Central America--like Honduras--under Panetta's cleverer management, and Nicaragua is top his list right now.

[naaman fletcher]

3. I agree with your sentiments in many ways,

although by and large the wikileaks cables show that our lower level state department folks are actually quite decent and competent, but that the guys at the top ignore it all to pursue their agendas.

[naaman fletcher]

2. Ortega is also a child molester. nt.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Yeah, and Julian Assange is rapist.

You got anything to back that up? Ever heard of "innocent until proven guilty"?

For that matter, ever heard of CIA psyops?

Jeez.

[naaman fletcher]

5. yeah I posted it earlier, a few weeks ago.

I guess if you want you can call the girl a liar.

[social_critic]

6. I'd say she's probably a liar

The two cases filed agaisnt Assange have very suspicious timing. I read a statement by Assange's lawyers which tells me the whole case seems to be cooked as a result of CIA pressure on Swedish individuals, including the Gotheborg prosecutor. The British court is about to review the case, and I believe they'll deny Sweden's extradition request.

[spanza]

7. Not that girl... Ortega's step daughter. nt