The Ortegas: Nicaragua’s Dynasty of Nightmares

[@harenjaegger7930]

Nicaraguan living in Nicaragua here, a pretty good video resuming the regime, but just wanted to point out that the woman in a photo referred to as Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is actually Cristiana Chamorro her daughter, who in 2021 expressed intention to run as president, and was among the possible candidates, but ended up under home arrest until she was sent to exiled along with 200+ other political prisoners on a fly to the U.S early this Year.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Oh...

[@ernestkhalimov1007]

They're both crooks though too and incapable of governing

[@PhuckYT12]

@matiasd.c9949 Oh look, didn't know Nicaragua had bots

[@1dvs_bstd]

@matiasd.c9949 Even a wrong clock is right twice a day.

[@JoeRogansForehead]

@matiasd.c9949based

[@bluegold1026]

May the Ortega regime's downfall be swift and merciless.

[@raphaellall6270]

May the United States collapse be quick and merciless...

[@ernestkhalimov1007]

​@matiasd.c9949it actually does since they won various elections in the past since the libs were infinitely more useless

[@rayojordan2838]

@matiasd.c9949that’s cause those are Sandinistas 😂 the Sandinistas would die for Ortega would lick his boots and all😂

[@Trihahalos]

come with the butt

[@Wajayajanadu]

Well, as a Nicaraguan that fears potentially being monitored if I express my opinion on such matters or videos I just have to say that everything mentioned on this video is factually correct. P.S: Do not believe everything you read in the comments, propaganda (specially around volcanoes or crime to invite tourist) is the way they deflect any question or accountability.

[@donaldoflores8374]

As a Nicaraguan I can say we don't want Nicaraguans like you, what you think because you're out of the country the fact that you're asking for tourism to nose dive in the nation won't damage the economy of the locals? And fear of being monitored my ass everybody says whatever the hell they want on social network stop acting like we are living under the NSA

[@vic5015]

You're not the only one. I heard prominent Nicaraguan-American Ana Navarro address complaints that she doesn't speak out against Ortega enough. She said that her father still lives in Nicaragua and she fears that Ortega, being the allegedly vicious and vindictive man she says he is, will visit his wrath upon her frail and elderly father.

[@PrimericanIdol]

@@vic5015 Those Gusanos will eventually get what they deserve. They want Nicaragua to become an obedient US puppy dog at best, or a full-blown state at worst.

[@aresjerry]

Met an immigrant from Nicgaragua, he had to escape because his friend disappeared after a social media post. And they started rounding up everyone who liked the post. He is happy to be in America, is thankful to have any job. And was happy to just be alive and be a pizza delivery driver.

[@donaldoflores8374]

@@aresjerry he is bullshitting you.

[@blackwatertv7018]

I don’t think a lot of Americans realize that if these countries actually get stable again that will ease the “ migration crisis”

[@tomsolo7426]

Oh we do. We also think we need to be their great saviors, or they should get under the boot and be quiet. Neither work, as history shows, but we do love f*cking with people.

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@tomsolo7426Actually, it has worked. Many times. It worked for Germany, Italy, Japan, Panama, Kuwait, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, Greece, Oman, Armenia, Taiwan and many others

[@ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164]

which one is "it"@@ZeroResurrected

[@vic5015]

It would certainly help.

[@vic5015]

​​​​@ZeroResurrected as someone whose family is Korean, i would point out that democracy came to Korea *despite* the US, not because of it. Washington was more than happy to keep their puppet dictatorship in power. The same is true in Taiwan. And the Philippines is another such story. The US may have removed Noriega but it wasn't in *any* way to restore democracy to Panama.

[@hkrohn]

Thank you for this video! I've been so many times to Nicaragua the recent years and it's constantly getting worse. Of course not for foreign visitors, but for normal, intelligent people who want a normal country to live in.

[@no89lan3]

I am a Nicaraguan, I enjoy my country so cut the BS.

[@Psilomuscimol]

​@@no89lan3. No matter how bad the country is, someone will enjoy it.

[@WhatsThat-x1f]

Yea because of the sanctions 😢

[@j.s.c.4355]

This is so sad in light of how hopeful this country seemed whenI was there in the 90’s.

[@reni344]

He didn't even deny sexually assulting his step daughter he said he had immunity. He basically admitted he did it but you cant do anything about it. 😮 You know you have all the power when you are that bold.

[@cantsay2205]

Imagine staying married to the freak that raped your daughter, or letting him live. He would be bleeding to death from where his peen used to be if that were my child, I'm not scared of prison, I'd be a hero.

[@gordonlumbert9861]

A lot of people and countries don't believe in rule of law. I'm surprised he even responded.

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@ajitadonismanilal9105Yes, there absolutely is good and evil in this world and the only people who believe otherwise have no real values in their lives

[@donaldoflores8374]

Due I also believe he is a rapists but this is false.

[@robot336]

He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

[@BruceBoyde]

Wow, I had no idea about this. I remember thinking "why is Nicaragua of all countries siding with Russia?" after that UN resolution and figured it must have been an economic client state situation. I didn't realize it was a deeply authoritarian functional dictatorship virtue signaling to one of the few nations that doesn't care about that kind of thing.

[@Theshropshireratter]

Early in the sandernesa rebellion they were so under armed government m4 sherman tanks gave goverment forces the uperhand and nearly crushed the rebellion

[@vic5015]

Probably because Reagan tried *very* hard to overthrow Ortega the first time. And i have little doubt Reagan would have liked to see Ortega dead.

[@vic5015]

​@@Theshropshireratteri thought the Sandanistas *were* the government and the contras (of Iran-contra fame) were the rebels.

[@robot336]

He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

[@BruceBoyde]

@@vic5015 oh yeah, don't get me wrong. I won't deny for a second that 99% of the political turmoil in Central and South America is the direct result of American meddling. I just wasn't aware of the fact of it today.

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

Some times liberators can turn out to be worse oppressors

[@titan133760]

Reminds me of the words of Jose Rizal: "What is the use of independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? And no doubt they will, because whoever submits to tyranny loves it!"

[@andreasottohansen7338]

This is what we call a "full circle revolution"

[@zhcultivator]

Yep....

[@razorburn645]

"Liberated? No, under new management".

[@ElJags]

Daniel is sick and old and his mind just lives in a permanent revolution. His wife who is the vice president has done great things for the country but she also has twisted and unchecked issues, issues that would make you want to wear a cross and bathe in holy water if she was present

[@EpicgamerwinXD6669]

You could honestly make an entire channel dedicated obscure dictators of past and present around the world Simon. That's extremely depressing when you think about it though...

[@ignitionfrn2223]

Well , *Into the Shadows* might be the perfect pick amarite ?

[@WaveGretzky4440]

Don't give him any ideas bro i can barely catch up with all his channels already

[@thesuncollective1475]

If anything it's a reminder that if we allow dubious people into power this is where we can end up.

[@EpicgamerwinXD6669]

@@lylecoglianese1645 you do know the United States isn't single handedly responsible for ever dictator ever right?

[@rejvaik00]

I'd welcome a dictator video on Peru under Japanese-Peruvian president Fujimori His daughter is still surprisingly also involved in Peru politics to this day

[@BlackKnigth323]

Ironically when he asked about dictators, well, Ortega came to my mind But also because I'm from Costa Rica so it is literally next to my country

[@swampfox984]

Honestly, he would comes to my mind is well. Which is weird, I live in Alaska which is now where close to Nicaragua.

[@gordonlumbert9861]

He was in the news a lot in the states in the 80s.

[@robot336]

He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

[@andreasottohansen7338]

Ortega did come to mind for me once he pronounced the name (as I have never actually seen it written), even if I am more often worried about the crackpot despots in my own backyard (Orban, Lukasjenko, and Putin)

[@Akron162]

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.

[@josejulianpazlopez9140]

Viva Nicaragua🇳🇮💙

[@Akron162]

@@josejulianpazlopez9140 claro. Sin Ortega.

[@Akron162]

@matiasd.c9949 well, there are always sellouts and traitors that support tyrants as long as they tell them what they want to hear. That's usually how democracies die. Too bad everyone who thinks differently gets killed or thrown in jail. But hey, the guy built some hospitals, so who cares about human rights or actual social progress, right?

[@505NI]

I have 26 years of living in Nicaragua and I’ve never heard Ortega talking about going to war with our southern friends, Ortega is a fucking moron but we would never go to war with Costa Rica since we would get smashed inna dash by Costa Rica’s Allies. Ortega always blames the US not Costa Rica.

[@no89lan3]

You should be more stressed about the rising homicide rate in Costa Rica, which is now filled with sicarios.

[@vic5015]

Ortega would do well to keep this in mind: the last straw for many Egyptians was hearing that Mubarak allegedly intended for there to be a dynastic transfer of power to his son.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:25 - Chapter 1 - Meet the ortegas 10:30 - Chapter 2 - The regime

[@DarthWaderFC3S]

I suggest people look into the father Fabretto foundation. Its been a while since i went to nicaragua but Fabretto is one of the positive things there for the Nicaraguan people. San José de Cusmapa and the people there will always hold a place in my heart.

[@neldenscarlet9570]

Its terribly ironic how ortega became the very monster he once tried to destroy.

[@pi1392]

that's why we should be wary of white nights and saviours, they use justice to suit their own dark purposes.

[@piotrswat169]

Monsters created this monster.

[@rinzo2009]

Simon Sensei, it's quite rare for me to be actually depressed by any of your videos on your multiple channels, but this one has eaten the cake. Any mother that would rather choose the rapist and her political career over the mental wellbeing of her child (and firstborn child at that) ain't a mother no more, but a bigger monster than her husband. If she can throw her firstborn under the bus, just to be named as VP (and next in line), what do you think she would do to her other kids just to secure her throne?

[@bachvandals3259]

The 2019 documentary film Exiliada (English: Exiled) revolves around and interviews her, as well as her complaints of sexual abuse against Ortega in 1998. This is the only "source" there is about this alleged affair, its worth knowing that its made during the election, so does every time she recalled her "abuses". She also insisted that she were rape in 1990s, when she were already kicked out of the house, she later then said its only through the phone. She now have a cushy non-job of "activists" in Costa Rica, with unknown funding. I REALLY want to believe every victims out there, but this has every reasons to be fake, no evident whatsoever and too much of a reasoning. He killed tens of thousands of peoples... That alone should be the focus, not some sham allegation.

[@rinzo2009]

@@bachvandals3259 If that be the case, then why did the accused apply for immunity against it? Secondly, being the adopted first born of the President, while would she risk exile and possible fumigation with such an accusation? She already had everything in the land to enjoy (as the President's kid) and she wouldn't want to throw it away just like that unless there's some credence to the tale.

[@bachvandals3259]

@@rinzo2009 I would have to check, but all the sources that i have (the interview movie itself, wikipedia and the Nicaraguan press), there is no charges nor trial ever been put forward. Not that any member of parliament have immunity anyway, there are no specific laws that prevent indictments of lawmakers in Nicaragua. So i guess(and this is pure speculation because of how poorly sourced this is), she filed charges in costa rica and demand he went there and be in custody of foreign police until his trial in the middle of an election cycle which he can refuse as a foreign diplomat. She was only a step-child, Ortega never have to any plans for her for inheritance so she has always been a grifter living off her mom inside the presidential homes. Graduating from a bad local university, she never got a real job and keep ping-ponging between parliament position that her mom gave her until her mom had enough and kick her out of the house. She now have a cushy job as an "LGBTI activist" in costa rica, likely paid by her father opposer, she definitely have things turn out better than starving to death on street, of course she would be lying.

[@bachvandals3259]

@@rinzo2009 I found the source, albeit a little funky, an UK independent archived post in 2022. She filed charges in Nicaragua while he was at the UN general assembly in 1998, a whole 8 years after she was kicked out of the house(so no, she didn't risk anything, she have nothing to lose at this point and want to score some easy money). The court(controlled at this point by President José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo, an anti-sandinista) still have to shut this down because of lack of evident, not by any kind of immunity(which can also be revoked by the court), the Sandinista only have 4 seat in congress and have little power in the government, if the court have proof whatsoever he would have been in jail.

[@harenjaegger7930]

​@@bachvandals3259 The judge for that case was Juana Mendez, she worked during the 80s for the State Department and was a fierce Sandinista, she archived the entire case, and guess who nowadays is one of the Magister of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court of Justice, Juana Mendes, even tho the Sandinistas no longer hold the power at that time there were still several remanents working for the government.

[@multiyapples]

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

[@dockerdave]

You should do an episode on Hun Sen in Cambodia. From being a senior member of the Khmer Rouge to ruling the country with an iron fist and imprisoning and murdering opposition from 1985 until this year, he's been a terrible person

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

I agree.

[@harrisonmiller6475]

Can u do an episode on brutal the 24 year regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu in Romania? Just an idea 4 u

[@gordonlumbert9861]

It seems to be similar I think Simon already has them on another channel. Biography maybe?

[@jibjones1233]

Damn its depressing hearing how much power his family has and how familiar that is to our ruling class

[@gabedecartago905]

As a Tico one of the worst mistake of my country was helping the sandinistas

[@tonyahinrichs8828]

Thank god. A Simon fix. Never leave me Simon....

[@douglassauvageau7262]

As a U.S. Air Force reservist, I deployed to the southern border of Honduras ostensibly to support the 'War On Drugs' in the late 1980s. Subsequent deployments from deep Amazonia to the Caribbean and the southwest border of the U.S. plus a jaundiced observation of political dynamics in the Western Hemisphere and my subsequent deployments from our Homeland to the Mediterranean and points east in support to the 'War On Terrorism' leave me to wonder WHY (?). What purpose does all that monkey-motion serve?

[@douglassauvageau7262]

I am a pedestrian-proponent of the Monroe Doctrine. If (after 75 years) NATO cannot coalesce and after 50 years of vigorous encouragement of a Beijing-led renaissance, I propose that the U.S. recommit to President Kennedy's proclamation that "we intend to remain masters of our own house".

[@JackPitmanNica]

Thanks for your comment Doug. I feel you... whats the point of it, after all? As Smedley Butler said one hundred years ago... war is a racket. @@douglassauvageau7262

[@rabioramos1796]

@@douglassauvageau7262 the CIA was accused of being involved with trafficking drugs

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

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.

[@JackPitmanNica]

This is the most realistic comment I've seen so far, and I've read down a bunch of them. As Americans, we are often so quick to point fingers at the consequences of our foreign policy... as if we had nothing to do with it. Your open-mindedness of the subject would make me assume, you are not an American 🤣

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

@@JackPitmanNica I'm an American with a degree in international relations. I think the number one misconception that Americans have about our foreign policy is that it somehow doesn't affect us. And nothing could be further from the truth--When your country engages in coercive international relations, it creates problems for everyone involved, including for people in the nation doing the coercion.

[@JackPitmanNica]

You have brightened my day @@TheForeignersNetwork

[@rabioramos1796]

@@TheForeignersNetwork the CIA got caught & admitted to helping to traffic drugs into the USA to help fund the Contras

[@xxbobsetsfirexx4269]

"Nicaragua!!!...Agua!...are you threatening me?"

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks For these

[@mikeroberts7921]

So sad. I have traveled there and it is a beautiful country with amazing people.

[@paolosantiago3163]

So sad I really hope someday dictatorship in Nicaragua 🇳🇮🇳🇮 will finally over that's why never take your freedom for granted/nothing. 😢😢

[@twofiveb]

Looks like Ortega learned a lot about how to be a crooked, ruthless, despot from Somoza after all.

[@pjjarrell300]

Great coverage

[@brapbrapson944]

It’s surprising that there aren’t any Turkish nationalists in this chat yelling and screaming that Erdogan isn’t an aspiring autocrat

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

They're too busy drinking in German Bars to post tonight.

[@christophermeyer3544]

Nicaraguan-American here, I will now use this guy’s pronounciation of my mom’s home country - Viva Nica-rá-ghiu-wah

[@aussieausbourne1]

This has got to be the family the creators of the walking dead were suggesting the hispanic character that tortures the soldier in the first season of fear the walking dead or he was an enforcer for them with his outlook on getting information from people

[@joshwinslow8397]

My GF lives in the country and im worried sending her this will cause issues for her while shes there

[@Craftymom1o19]

That’s an awesome into!!

[@TurquoiseInk]

My mother worked in Nicaragua during the Somoza regime and got out just before the fall of that dictator. They went from a Fascist dictator to a Communist dictator. Why Americans are investing and retiring there is insane to me.

[@multipletanksyndrome]

Would love to see a similar video about former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe Velez.

[@henryvegter8773]

Reagan was ahead of his time. Too bad the Contras lost.

[@stephenharper6638]

He should have gone to jail over iran/contra and been impeached for agent orange coverup

[@asbo891]

A Marxist/Leninist leader turned out to be a horrific dictator...who could have seen that coming!

[@Rudyelf1]

“But that isn’t real communism.” - some wet behind the ears college kid that grew up in the suburbs.

[@dsgdsg9764]

You you got me I don't know much about Nicaragua

[@chopsticksandchappedlips9734]

Do a video about Eritrea.

[@tmane1862]

Lol the way Simon pronounces Nicaragua is so damn funny to me! “Neecorauwguwa” 😂😂😂

[@lessthanavgplayer67]

My dad told me that last year ortega's son randomly came to his uncles clinic and just told him to sell it to him, the easy way or the hard way, he gave 20 seconds to think about it.

[@dfdemt]

Watched this just to hear Simon’s pronunciation of Nicaragua. 😂

[@rachelnelson3923]

Nicaragyoua! Couldn’t get past it. It’s like Nicaraqwa Simon! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sunny_froyo]

I couldn't hear anything but the horrible sound of him trying to say the country's name. Literally retained 0% info beside Nicaraguyoua

[@jacquelinekenknight9280]

I had to google how to pronounce it because he had me doubting myself 😂😂

[@halfdead4566]

Aslo thank you simon for teaching us information we wouldn't find normally or care about unless we were there

[@erikmar2979]

This video is worthless as a historical recap. Read Stephen Kinzer's Blood of Brothers instead.

[@elmartell5724]

Time for a Romanov maneuver 👀👀

[@rvierra7235]

In a nutshell, this is one of the best docu's on Nicaragua I have seen, and I have been reading and watching since the 80's.

[@antonmeemana1261]

Ortega is a sick despot. He has forgotten his own past.

[@messageinathrottle4046]

Your take on the Iran Contra scandal needs some serious additions, and only mentions the Contra portion, as though Reagan was a hero to the free people of Nicaragua. You ignored Reagan’s funding, which came from trafficking cocaine into American inner cities and creating the crack epidemic, and purchasing Soviet weapons from Iran to arm the rebels. Your intentions can;t be good if all of your actions are vile.

[@Mrgunsngear]

🍿

[@aloysiusokon3334]

"Imagine a 21st century Dictator" ... Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[@thevozhd9846]

You need to make a video on the 2002 Godhra riots, the 2020 Delhi riots, and the ongoing riots in Manipur in India.

[@Anonymous-ed8om]

Video editing on point as always

[@dearbrad1996]

Will the people of Central America ever have a life free from corrupt government?

[@PrimericanIdol]

When the US loses all influence in that region.

[@eadweard.]

​@@PrimericanIdolOnly then can they build true communism.

[@wave1090]

Some of us do. Costa Rica is recognized as being among the top 25 democracies in the world. The rest of us are fucked though.

[@wave1090]

​@@PrimericanIdolfunny how the least corrupt countries in the region are the ones with the closest ties to the US then

[@PrimericanIdol]

@@wave1090 Funny how Costa Rica is prosperous because it has been largely left alone. It doesn't even have a military, and they don't fear getting invaded. Nicaragua's fate would have been much worse had William Walker got his way and turned it into a US state. It would be another Florida or Louisiana but devoid of any culture because it would have been utterly wiped out.

[@AnnaJaneMTG]

Damn no mention of the most fun dictator to say aloud, Gurbanguly Burdimuhamedow

[@BenZ-ui7tu]

The picture you have for Violetta isn't correct. That's her daughter Christiana

[@DarknessUnresolved]

Britain has NO room to talk!

[@ThePkmage]

why not? and here we go i do hope you quote things that happened lifetimes ago.

[@dopaminedreams1122]

Is baby gonna cry about things the UK did literally lifetimes ago as if it excuses CURRENT crimes

[@Steve_G88]

How does Jenna fit into all of this?

[@hannahp1108]

You should cover the Iran-Contra Affair!

[@murrayscott9546]

The Horror. The Horror.

[@lordavius]

His regime is on a much better survival situation today as Brazil just elected a far left Ortega friend (Lula da Silva) who not only defends him publicly (he compared Ortega's decades in power to Germany's Prime minister Angela Merkel) to the point he (Lula) said he was "proud to be on the side of Ortega" just last year and is not proposing that the UN open a "constructive dialogue" with Nicaragua's dictator. And Lula decided that Brazil would NOT sign a joint declaration with other 55 countries condemning human rights violations by Ortega and his regime. Things like torture, sexual abuse, arbitrary imprisonments, religious persecution, among others. So, Nicaragua got a big friend on Brazil's Lula, a friend that already is looking to lend the regime money and do infrastructure work there. All to keep the dictatorship alive for longer.

[@rafalganowicz1939]

Sure sounds a lot like what Stalin did. Hitler was not the only fanatical dictator during that time.

[@JM-wf2to]

Death, taxes, and nations in the southern hemisphere having massive issues being decent, organzied and functional nations...

[@GreenCrayon961]

A Marxist 'reformer' ends up as a brutal tyrant... shocking.

[@josephmagana6235]

Never been tried

[@RSanchez111]

7:02 that is a photo of Violeta Chamorro's daughter, Cristiana.

[@kevinfoster1138]

Nice I opened "Into The Shadows" right at 666 thumbs-up must be a sign.

[@MMSMLUNWINPP]

Even talking about horrible sociopaths...your voice could make a wolverine purr.

[@deadringer-cultofdeathratt8813]

Everytime I turn around I find you with 2 more channels. You must speak for 12 hours a day.

[@williamhenszlein5032]

Those idiots, the people of Nicaragua, voted him back into office, let them reap what they sowed.

[@Jameywells777]

Always informative Simon.

[@cantsay2205]

You would think people would learn their lesson about electing people like that by now.

[@kpounders7437]

That is why history repeats; people DONT learn

[@cantsay2205]

@@kpounders7437 it's just hard to feel sorry for people who vote people like this in at this point. Like I'm sorry, but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different result.

[@blackwatertv7018]

Like what Tyrants?

[@cantsay2205]

@@blackwatertv7018 people like the dictator of Nicaragua. What did you think I meant?

[@RebeccaOre]

Both sides were shooting. I could hear them on both ends of the town I live in. One friend lives in a block that had two sets of people firing at each other.

[@djdrack4681]

I've known about him bcuz friends help run a set of charities that help orphanages in a 1/2 doz 3rd world hellscapes: Guatemala, Nicaragua, DNC, Rwanda, Belize to name a few. When you're aware of the pure authoritarian/tyrannical control they have over the economy/resources/utilities you immediately understand what a POS these leaders are; I remember the friend describing projects to install Solar panels for a couple big centers in Nicaragua/Guatemala: and how it was to resolve the insane electric bills (for just basic lights/water pumps/Frigerators etc) $10-20k/month for places with only 200-ish kids. Just plain unaffordable unless you're part of the corrupt gov + cronies. We're talking modern LED lights, not giant halogen/incand power hogs or huge flood/street lights. Central America has a LONG ROAD to becoming even a moderately developed/HDI/Rights index.

[@pancholopez8829]

How bad is Belize?

[@djdrack4681]

@@pancholopez8829I'd say they're all about the same. Costa Rica is the only central American nation even remotely decent, but it still has a lot of shortcomings. Some like Belize aren't 'as' authoritarian, but they're still pretty corrupt AF; and there the economy sucks, which is a big factor if I was to guess. I'd have to check but I think Belize is also one of them that has been in bed with CCP China, but I could be wrong on that.

[@RebeccaOre]

Ortega never was a Marxist. Also, can you learn to say “Nicaragua” correctly.

[@djdrack4681]

@@RebeccaOrevit-amins vite-amins lol

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@RebeccaOreeeehhh....

[@josesalazarlopez142]

And believe me his wife Rosario fits the whole witch profile

[@bernardsebranek1963]

She actually is a witch. A few years back she held a convention in Managua for or all witches in Latin America.

[@YeeSoest]

Every video about recent or topical global events has a moment where somebody at Lockheed Martin goes "Oh yes, please do that!" 19:53 is that moment

[@quirkyMakes]

The Powers of Darkness gather strength once again...........

[@WhatsThat-x1f]

Yet they don't honor the icj ruling but want to talk about rule of law 😮

[@chriscabal3345]

Another great video

[@rnp497]

what self-respecting oppressive dictator doesn't steal from their country

[@vinnydiaz6959]

he’s playing tropico irl

[@christopherjustice6411]

Oh cool. So the villain from Far Cry 6 (NazBol Castro) is a real dude.

[@TheAvtrey]

It's always funny to see all the context this guy leaves out. Left is always the bad guy in his history book.

[@jontaedouglas7244]

El Salvador isn’t too far behind

[@danielbarrett1988]

Iran -Contra affair video required now on warographics!

[@no89lan3]

THIS IS NICARAGUA. Do you have free health care in your country? WE DO Do you have social housing for poorest people? WE DO Are you the safest nation in your region? WE ARE Do you have cartels, gangs, kidnaping issues? WE DON'T

[@shauncameron8390]

And yet Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest country in the Americas.

[@Bakedbeans24341]

Oh no

[@matthewhodgson7388]

Well, if Simon gets assassinated, we know who did it

[@billotto602]

Well, I guess this proves Regan was right !

[@mikefruge8589]

As an American, I heard a local priest this morning talk about his recent mission to Nicaragua. He did not mention any of the atrocities you are describing here. If Ortega is such a monster, why is he allowing US missionaries to enter his country? You describe some of his actions as "exactly like the Nazis". How would you describe the current GENOCIDE in Gaza by Israel? You criticize his willingness to do business with Russia and China. Are you suggesting the US has been a "good and fair" partner with any of Latin America? What about the Monroe Doctrine"? He failed to condemn Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, as though the US and "Victoria Nuland" had nothing to do with it? This guy is a hack with an obvious agenda. I put little to no value in anything he has said here.

[@dopaminedreams1122]

Russian bot spotted, stop genociding Ukraine

[@superorion271]

Lesson never leave any comunist alive after capture.

[@mrnogood]

You have basically told us the story of Biden,Trump, Obama, Bush, Castro, Quadaffi, etc. How about telling us the story of your personal trip to Nicaragua?

[@davidgibson3631]

so you trade once somoza to become another somoza aka ortega

[@vic5015]

Idk if Ortega was ever a decent guy but most everyone seems to agree he's becone a brutal tyrant. When he disappeared from public view for an extended period amid rumors he had covid, a lot of people hoped he had succumbed to the disease.

[@RebeccaOre]

FSLN friends say that Ortega has had three heart attacks and has lupus.

[@ABC21129]

The ironic thing is the country was in far better shape under the Somosa dictatorship than the current dictatorship

[@SuperMookles]

No, it really wasn't.

[@ABC21129]

@@SuperMookles yes it was. There's plenty of evidence and first hand accounts, some from my own family

[@renabear6779]

@@SuperMooklesNicaraguan economy was at its height in 1973 after the earthquake. It’s now the second poorest country in Latin America 🤣 communist eat shit everyday can’t feel bad for them they wanted that revolution and look what it got them 💀

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

The definition of die young or live long enough to become the villain 😏

[@wendychavez5348]

I have a friend with the last name Ortega who resembles one of the people pictured at about 3:03. I don't think it's him or anyone related to him, because no one in that family resembles the Ortegas you're talking about here, it's just an amusing correlation.

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Volcano 2 will soon be filmed there.

[@j.p.6932]

16:00 Again, what kind of government is it when even congress is immune to orosexuton.

[@matthews.youtube]

for those more interested in this history leave simon’s video and his biased approach and read Stephen Kinzer's Blood of Brothers

[@Liqoh]

14:01 Fledded? That’s not even a word 💀