USA seeks to destabilize Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Nicaragua is under a destabilizing strategy similar to the
one aimed at other member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the
Peoples of Our America (ALBA), said an article published in Managua on
Monday.
In a column entitled "The United States and its Tangle of NGOs in
Nicaragua," Uruguayan journalist based in Sweden Jorge Capelan explains
that the destabilizing strategy the United States has pursued in
Venezuela through non governmental organizations and "contractor" firms
is also being applied in Nicaragua against the Sandinista Government.
Published here by La Primerisima radio website, the article recalls
that since 1994, the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) started to install the so-called Offices of Transition
Initiatives (OTI) in several countries worldwide.
They were originally created to support transition to capitalism in
East European countries, but they later spread to other states where it
was necessary to address situations in which US interests were
threatened, said the article.
It added that in Venezuela, OTI was created in July 2002, little
after the failed coup against President Hugo Chavez, and in Bolivia it
was installed in late 2005 to try to prevent Evo Morales from coming to
power.
According to Capelan's article, under USAID orders, these OTIs have
established networks in countries, where they operate with political
parties, the media and non governmental organizations which they provide
with funds and training to implement policies serving US interests.
There is no OTI in Nicaragua, but the USAID develops a similar
strategy against the Sandinista Government through the program run by
paramilitary DynCorp firm. Prensa Latina |