Jorge Capelán - Nicaragua.2.mp4

has been fought successfully in Nicaragua - a reality that can be seen by any unbiased observer who comes to this country. The problem we have lies not as much within Nicaragua as it does abroad, it lies on the historical demonization of Sandinism by the Western media as well as on the distorted view that media conveys of the country's reality in all fields. And this takes us to the real subject I wanted to cover here with these words. What we actually want to communicate to you not only is of concern to Sandino's fatherland. Let us face a fact: Today, journalism has been made obsolete by the way it has been instrumentalized and manipulated by the interests of NATO countries. Propaganda reaches sickening levels in countries such as Spain, Sweden and the UK. Such countries don't give a damn about facts and shamelessly embrace notions as reactionary as the R2P doctrine, the "Responsibility to Protect" the same peoples they slaughter. The recent wars, from Ivory Coast to Libya and now the one in Syria only confirm in the most brutal way what already was clear from all the wars since the 1990's in FRY, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Congo, etc. NATO-countries' media along all the political spectrum are, one way or another, a crucial component of the military planning and practice of Psychological Warfare The same can be said of the NGO's, the agencies of "Development Assistance" and "Human Rights". The conflicts in Libya and Syria show that, unfortunately, most of the progressive and radical opinion in the "First World" is ultimately prone to collaborate with NATO's Psy-War efforts against the countries targets of aggressions. Broadly speaking, Western progressive opinion allows itself to be intimidated by the false rhetoric of Democracy and Human Rights deployed by NATO's Psy-War machine. The most common expression of this is the "neutral stance" sought by this opinions' representatives - a stance that in practice facilitates NATO's aggressions. In the case of Latin America, it is clear how easy it is to demonize political systems and movements, even if those count with massive popular support as it happened in Libya and Syria. Similar tactics are used against all countries in Latin America that do not conform to the imperatives of the NATO-countries. Another front of attack is the solidarity between those countries and the one they receive from other countries such as Russia or Iran. It's not about an uncritical solidarity towards certain movements and/or governments, It's simply about solidarity. Period. Because one does not weaken the Empire by weakening its victims or by justifying the imperial aggressions with the alleged shortcomings of the targets of those aggressions. Such hesitations we see among those progressive sections of the Western opinion, and often, the connivance of progressive sectors in the imperialist countries with NATO strategists' Psy-War campaigns reveals a deep lack of faith in the capacity of our peoples to fight for their liberation. Really, european comrades, it's necessary to reflect upon these issues. NATO's Psy-War campaigns always focus on a different nation depending on the specific conjuncture. In the case of Latin America, besides the permanent campaign against Venezuela, we can remember, for instance, the campaign against Cuba back in 2003, the so-called "Black Spring", or the weeks and months prior to the attempted coup against president Rafael Correa in Ecuador in 2010, or the recent protests against Evo Morales in Bolivia, or against Cristina Fernández in Argentina, and, off-course, the famous "Express coup" against Fernando Lugo in Paraguay. In every one of those and many other cases, specific campaigns were carried out In order to smear and isolate some or other governments. Those demonizing campaigns always seek to establish differences among the rebel countries in Latin America. Thus, while the CNN and other imperial outlets sometimes focus on, say Dilma's "realism" against an "unpredictable" Chávez, in other moments they stress Correa's willingness to talk with, say, Hillary Clinton, as it was the case some time ago, contrasting those with a Daniel Ortega who, almost always is portrayed as "suspect" and/or "cunning", "totalitarian", and so on... Now, with the case of Julian Assange, the role of the "bad guy" has fallen on Correa. Who knows who will get that part on, say, three or four months... The roles of angels and villains assigned by those campaigns can change overnight. Because those roles have no connection whatsoever with reality but with the need of NATO's Psychological Warfare As a complementary choir of the corporate media's demonizing noise there is a parallel universe of debate in he so-called alternative media. - a diverse universe in which Western voices have a disproportionate weight with respect to their real political relevance. Don't get angry, comrades! It's a sober assessment of the facts. Those voices often have strong influence among the Western progressive circles. It's a panopticon-like phenomenon, - a vantage point from which all the universe is watched like the tip of a pyramid from which the rest of the world is looked down upon. It's an allegedly privileged perspective from which all the world is observed and controlled and that's a structure we should criticize from a decolonizing perspective. I have to name here some media by name Media such as DemocracyNow! and ZNet in the US, or Rebelión and Le Monde Diplomatique in Europe, - by the way, I know comrade Ignacio Ramonet was going to participate in this activity - I have to say this, in the June/2012 issue of LMD an article was published under the title "Why Nicaragua chose Ortega?" that is a clear example of the use of those demonizing matrices against Nicaragua. In different ways, those media classify and dose the information so that the interpretation of the events is previously filtered and distributed according to priorities and agendas that not always are clearly apparent. This happens by various means, from the decisions on what to publish or not, or simply by what is promoted to the main page, these media tend to distribute... - Once again, don't get angry, it's a criticism - but it's something we think is really necessary