Nicaragua's Ortega Smeared Abroad Amid Arrests Of US-Funded Opposition

Published: June 21, 2021, 8 p.m.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon is joined by Peter Bolton, a DC-based journalist, activist and scholar, and a regular contributor to The Canary and CounterPunch, to discuss his recent article, “Here’s what the corporate-owned media won’t tell you about the arrests in Nicaragua,” how the US government has been propping up the opposition figures recently arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, and why similar forces seem to at play in the push to keep leftist President-elect Pedro Castillo from taking office in Peru.