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There are now many informative and critical reports in Latin America on the Nicaraguan repression since April, and even a fair amount in English. Here is a useful report on the Ortega-Murillo regime by Trevor Evans, for years an economic advisor to the Nicaraguan government: The Family-Party-State Nexus in Nicaragua, https://socialistproject.ca/2018/05/family-party-state-nexus-in-nicaragua/ This recent report by Dan La Botz has some update material, and cites US government statements that indicate the evolution of Washington's reaction to the Ortega repression, and why it does not call overtly for the overthrow of the regime. Nicaragua's Popular Rebellion Stopped -- For Now <http://newpol.org/content/nicaragua%E2%80%99s-popular-rebellion-stopped%E2%80%9 4-now> La Botz's book What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis, published in 2016 (pb in 2018), but before the recent repression, contains a very informative account in its final chapters of the devolution of the Sandinista party since its 1990 electoral defeat, although I don't agree with some of La Botz's theory on the origins of the Sandinista errors during the revolutionary government of the 1980s. Here is an update (with links to earlier accounts) on the state of the protest movement and government attempts to suppress it: The Crimes of the Regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo http://tinyurl.com/ycl2rskt Richard _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
