Nicaragua's case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights
research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports.
“The human rights industry markets itself dishonestly,
but very powerfully, as if it were driven by humanitarian concern rather
than ideological bias.”
Ever since January 2007, the Western human rights industry has
attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government for being undemocratic and
repressive. For over a decade, Nicaragua's social and economic
development and successive democratic elections repeatedly contradicted
that mendacious narrative. Frustrated by Nicaragua's embarrassing
example of undeniable, sovereign, socialist inspired social and economic
progress, the US authorities, over several years, prepared, organized
and finally openly supported the violent coup attempt of April 2018.
During that coup attempt and ever since it failed, the North American and European human rights industry has falsely accused the
Nicaraguan authorities of having brutally repressed peaceful opposition
protests with disproportionate lethal violence. In doing so, reports by
human rights organizations have systematically ignored numerous very serious crimes and even massacres by
Nicaragua's US supported right wing opposition and their allies.
Between April 18th and July 17th 2018, 23 police officers were killed by
opposition activists and 400 officers suffered gunshot wounds inflicted
by opposition gunmen. Reports by Western human rights organizations
have concealed that deliberate lethal opposition violence by
systematically suppressing conventional witness testimony, documentary
evidence and audiovisual material.
-- Stephen Selfton, "Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation " (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).