Following Donald Trump stealing the US election in 2016, and Alexander Lukashenko stealing the Belarus election in summer of 2020, there was a brief period wherein election theft was impossible.
Unfortunately, that period has ended, and people are back to stealing elections again.
RT:
Nicaragua’s “sham elections,” in which longtime President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are expected to claim victory, were “neither free nor fair,” US President Joe Biden has said.
The people in the Central American country of some 6.5 million went to the polls on Sunday, with the 75-year-old socialist leader Ortega looking to secure his fourth consecutive and fifth overall five-year term in office.
The Nicaraguan leadership “orchestrated… a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic,” Biden said in a statement late on Sunday.
U.S. escalates its war on Nicaragua, releasing a scheduled statement as polls come to a close in Nicaragua’s elections. Cynical words from the Biden regime. pic.twitter.com/7grUhViZbz
— Camila (@camilapress) November 8, 2021
The crackdown on political opponents by the Ortega-Murillo government “rigged the outcome well before election day,” the US president insisted.
Some 40 opposition figures have been detained since May, including seven potential presidential candidates, while the independent media were “shuttered” in the country, according to the statement.
The Nicaraguan police have said that those arrested were “traitors,” accused of a whole range of wrongdoings from conspiring to undermine national integrity by calling for sanctions and foreign intervention into the country to financial crimes, like money laundering.
Please note that this is somehow different than social media banning all Trump supporters before the election. Trump supporters are racists, meaning they are metaphysically evil and must be banned.
On a completely unrelated note, a big military victory in Latin America might be really good for Joe Biden. If he can thwart a dictatorship and bring them democracy, the masses in America will rally to his beckon.
Biden needs to let the people know that he does not tolerate non-democratic actions, and that if you try it, he will slaughter you like dogs.
Absurd fake news from US gov't mouthpiece NY Times: Unlike this propagandist I'm actually in Nicaragua, reporting on the elections
I went to 4 different voting stations; they were all full, with a totally calm, transparent process
There are 7 options on the ballot, 6 opposition https://t.co/nI5euvrrEF pic.twitter.com/yiKuFzPNBN
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) November 7, 2021
Mainstream corporate media is lying to you about Nicaragua’s elections.
International election observers posted all over the country are witnessing an incredibly well-staffed and efficient voting system.#EleccionesSoberanas2021
👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/qDQ3Dxnoo1
— Yasemin Zahra (@LaborOrganizer) November 7, 2021
The US gov't – which has oppressed Nicaragua for over 100 years, occupying and invading it, propping up Somoza's dictatorship – ridiculously declared Nicaragua's election today a "sham" (before results even come in)
The US plans a blockade & coup, like it tried in Venezuela/Cuba pic.twitter.com/565R1g3ctd
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) November 8, 2021
Thank you, @POTUS for calling attention to the human-rights violations under the Ortega. My heart aches for the suffering going on in Nicaragua under a corrupt dictator. #SOSNicaragua pic.twitter.com/O1ILH3Itvg
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) November 8, 2021
Just like the coronavirus vaccine only works if everyone takes it, democracy only works if everyone believes in our values.
It’s time that Biden reminded them that there is only one place for opposers of our values: in the grave.