US Seeks to Destabilize
Nicaragua
MANAGUA - Nicaragua is under a destabilizing
strategy similar to that 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
CampTransparencia program run by
paramilitary DynCorp firm.
CampTransparencia has organized forums and
other similar activities in Nicaragua. Its
main cadres have experience in "regime
change" operations.
There is no excuse to act all innocent with
the money the "civil society" gets from the
United States, as it is all part of a
destabilizing political-military plan to
dominate the country, Capelan said in his
article.
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