that's what it sounds like--it's part of an historic, massive, deeply rooted and unstoppable revolution throughout Latin America, a most wondrous development--based largely on TRANSPARENT elections (unlike those we have in the U.S.), with hard work by local civic groups, the OAS, EU election monitors and the Carter Center.
Virtually the entire map of South America has turned "blue" over the last several years, with leftist governments getting elected, often by big majorities, in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela and Bolivia. Peru is likely next. And this revolution is moving north--Mexico will likely elect the leftist mayor of Mexico City as president of the country this year. A sweep of this revolution into Nicaragua is not surprising.
These leftist governments have a common theme--the end of U.S./World Bank imperialism--self-determination and the establishment of regional economic, political and security alliances, and cross-Pacific/Atlantic alliances independent of US domination. They have already joined with India and other 'third world' countries in rebellion at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, a couple of years ago. Things are changing VERY SWIFTLY in Latin America. Our corporate news monopolies try to personalize it, with their hit pieces on Chavez, for instance, but it is not personal; it is by no means limited to Venezuela (far from it); and it is furthermore peaceful and democratic, fair and just, and, because it is deeply rooted, cannot be "assassinated."
The Latin Americans have had it with us, is the upshot. Some, like Chavez, sympathize with the oppressed citizens of THIS country, and there are no signs of deep or violent hatred of the American PEOPLE anywhere evident in this Latin American revolution. It's time, that's all--after centuries of oppression there, and hard work and huge sacrifices and difficulties in overcoming it. Latin America's time has come!
In Chile, they just elected the first woman president, socialist Michele Batchelet, who was tortured by US-backed dictator Pinochet, and lost her family to that junta. In Bolivia, they just elected the first indigenous Indian as president--an incredible event--and symbol of the end of US hegemony (with its murderous "war on drugs"). Evo Morales campaigned with a wreath of coca leaves around his neck, which has a far different meaning to Bolivian/Peruvian Indians than it does to us. (It is a sacred plant, essential to survival in the high altitudes of the Andes. He was a peasant--his parents were coca leaf growers.). He also rose to leadership in the grass roots ouster of Bechtel from Bolivia--Bechtel had privatized the water in one Bolivian city and jacked up the prices to the poor--and was thrown out of the country in a peoples' uprising.
Daniel Ortega is, and always was, a relatively peaceful revolutionary. Ortega was a popular hero, and the revolution in Nicaragua was relatively bloodless, compared to others--until the US (and some of these very same Bush criminals) got involved with US-funded death squads, selling arms to Iran (the Iran-Contra scandal) to fund the assassination, by the US-backed thugs (the "contras"), of teachers and mayors and other unarmed people who favored the Nicaraguan revolution. No doubt the Bushites are trying to interfere in Nicaragua again (as they tried and failed to do in Venezuela). But, a) these are different times, indeed; and b) the Bushites' OTHER foreign disasters and domestic scandals are clearly hampering their designs upon Latin America.
Viva Daniel! Viva Hugo! Viva Michele! Viva Evo! Long live the revolution! And may peace and justice replace war and suffering everywhere on earth, even here!
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Transparent elections = good government.
Non-transparent elections = the Bush junta.
It's a no-brainer!
See my rant, comment #17 at...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x580329 
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