Uncover the shocking and chilling history of Nicaragua’s modern dictator, Daniel Ortega, in this eye-opening video. Explore his rise to power, his family’s role in the regime, and the horrifying abuses committed against the Nicaraguan people. Don’t miss this deep dive into a real-life dystopia.
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when I think of dictators I think of Angela Merkel in Germany or Macron in France, after all they have been in power as long and it is not as if people are happy with them, France literally has riots every month
It's all the US's fault. It'll be the claim anyway, it always is.
Canadas Trudeau. The new breed of liberal technocrat dictators.
Well, I guess this proves Regan was right !
Samoza was bad and so is Ortega. It can't be understated that the use of foreign intervention in Nicaragua's politics is almost entirely to blame for its terrifying sequence of dictators. If the US hadn't supported the Samoza regime, then the Sandinistas wouldn't have been nearly as reactionary towards it as they were. On top of that, the Iran-Contra scandal led to a bunch of chaos in the US as well–It was partially to blame for the crack-cocaine epidemic that absolutely devastated inner cities. Because of the Nixon and then the Reagan presidencies, the US now has an outsized number of incarcerated people.
Joe Biden
As a costarrican, i can say that living next to this guy is very stressful. Every time there is some sort of internal strife in Nicaragua he threatens war with Costa Rica as a distraction tactic, and the sheer numbers of people escaping his regime have caused several migratory crises the last few years. I can only imagine how horrible it must be to actually have to live in the same country as him.
Britain has NO room to talk!
The Putin bashing is alienating me from this channel and I used to enjoy your content baldy.
Sometimes I wonder if I were downfall it's going to be somebody playing the long game moved to the USA versus a child. Make them a citizen groom that child to one day take office take over the nation or sabotage it. I know it's wild and they have a lot of stops along the way. But man that would be somehow some cards level BS right there. I would be both terrified and absolutely in awe at the effort. Like wow This was the most evil methodical plan and the fact that he was successful at it would have me clapping as I cry
(I know that might sound weird, but even at my first job at a restaurant I used to applaud those who would find loopholes in the business's menu or system to save money and it thought it was weird to punish people for their faulty procedures like being able to get an entirely separate burger for $2.50 plus a $0.30 bun versus spending $10 for the whole burger. When you could just add an extra meat patty and buy a separate bun. My boss told us as we can't let people do that if we see them doing that and I'm like why not just remove the option from the menu that you don't want people doing it? Why punish people for finding the loophole in your menu? That's weird. Just fix it after you find out. If they're instead of making us be tiredness against people because they're going to ask us why can't they do that if it's obviously an option? And I'm just going to have to respond with because you can't. That sounds so dumb)
for those more interested in this history leave simon’s video and his biased approach and read Stephen Kinzer's Blood of Brothers
Communism turned into totalitarianism. Who could have seen that one coming?
Some times liberators can turn out to be worse oppressors
7:02 that is a photo of Violeta Chamorro's daughter, Cristiana.
Sounds like a new North Korea… Authoritarian regimes must be surgically removed one at a time.
Yep…sounds exactly like Nazi Germany where neighbors were turning in neighbors for more food or to be left alone themselves…for a few months. Scary. There's a scarier part but I no longer feel safe saying that part out loud.
Maybe it’s time to smash the golden cage
I czn tell simons a liberal 100 percent
What is this crap? CIA / MI6 talking points?
Watched this just to hear Simon’s pronunciation of Nicaragua. 😂
Always informative Simon.
so you trade once somoza to become another somoza aka ortega
Well, if Simon gets assassinated, we know who did it
Socialist Revolutionaries and authoritarianism. Name a more dynamic duo
Oh no
Ortega always was a dictator right from when he first seized power in the 1980s. His Marxism was only a mantle. Just like his pal the late and not great Fidel Castro.
The Horror. The Horror.
What would Strummer say now ?
Weird a Marxist ended up being a tyrannical dictator….. no one could have seen that coming ….