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On 6/18/18 4:09 PM, Richard Fidler wrote:
As she notes, the mass protests in Nicaragua resemble some of the popular uprisings in the Arab Spring. She mentions Tahrir Square in 2011, but the Nicaraguan protests, which are country-wide, more closely parallel the "decentralized, social network-based, and horizontal social movements calling for justice and democracy" in the initial anti-Assad uprisings in Syria. In Nicaragua, however, the reaction has closed ranks and enlisted US and OAS support in an effort to reach some accommodation with their erstwhile ally Daniel Ortega.
You know, a little caution is necessary when making such comparisons. I just did a search in Nexis for Nicaragua and "police brutality" between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2017 and not a single article turned up except one that referred to legislation sponsored by a Republican and a Cuban-American Democrat who was from a district in New Jersey with a heavy concentration of Cuban-Americans.
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