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Obama ignoring `Spiral of Silence’ shroud on Costa Rica



imageCount it as one of el Presidente’s biggest Latin hypocrisies that while the Obamas are preening themselves before underprivileged children in Chile that the “spiral of silence” covers the aggression of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government against Costa Rica. Some nations are increasingly more equal than others while the concept of “democracy” is getting to be all but owned by the Muslim Brotherhood since the Obama-enabled uprisings in Egypt. Democracy does not include Costa Rica, whose Calero Island has been under Sandinista occupation since last November.

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There was no `democracy advocate’ Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn or Code Pink around Calero Island when the Sandinistas invaded it. And the silence from Barack Obama on Costa Rica is anything but golden. Surely true believers of democracy must have laughed outright earlier this month when the International Court of Justice ordered that Costa Rica and Nicaragua both must refrain from sending or maintaining civilians, security forces or police in a disputed border area. In typical UN style, offering each side something it could claim as a victory.
“The Calero Island, located along the San Juan River, in the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, was invaded in November, 2010 by Nicaraguan troops, in what constitutes an unreasonable aggression protected by an almost complete “spiral of silence” from media vehicles throughout the Americas.” (americasalert@yahoogroups.com, March 21, 2011). “The territory at stake is no bigger than a few tens of square kilometers. But the upsetting of international legal principles acquired a symbolic meaning that went far beyond the geographical extension of the invaded territory and the very scope of those two noble and so closely related Central American people--the Nicaraguan and the Costa Rican--each of whom having a historical symbolism of its own. “In view of such a disinterest from media vehicles, as well as from political rulers and regional organisms throughout the Americas, the Costa Rican government had no way out but to resort to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in Hay. On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, the ICJ admitted an injunctive relief filed by Costa Rica, issuing an order forbidding both countries to send troops to the bordering region, especially to the Calero Island, whose sovereignty belongs to Costa Rica but Nicaragua claims as its own. The ICJ’s order will be valid until the ICJ issues a judgment about the core problem, which concerns the settling of borderlines now in dispute. “For all practical purposes, due to the fact that Costa Rica does not have an army, the International Court’s order applies above all to the Nicaraguan army--presently under the command of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, who is internationally aligned with Chavez, Zelaya, and Gadaffi. President Ortega said he would accept the ICJ’s decision. However, no one knows the subterfuges he may resort to in order to continue with the hostility that he and his party (the Sandinist National Liberation Front--FSLN) are currently carrying on against a neighboring country that is basically defenseless. “Nicaragua played an important role during the Cold War era, being the stage for a paradigmatic Communist-Catholic union that inspired Sandinism and other revolutionary movements in Latin America. Later on, Sandinism was electorally defeated, but it seized power again in November, 2006 through national elections of a doubtful transparency.”
Costa Rica does not have an army, but what it does have is one of the largest UN presences outside of Manhattan, courtesy of the University of Peace, the one and the same of which Obama mentor, Canadian UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong was Chairman of its governing body, and initially as Rector. Never--anywhere--has it been mentioned that Costa Rica was invaded by the Sandinist National Liberation Front right under the sanctimonious nose of the UN. In other words, the blue helmeted vision of “Peace” carries on in all parts of Costa Rica other than Calero Island. The ongoing Sandinista occupation of Calero Island is proof positive of the utter hypocrisy of the United Nations and its self-declared king Barack Obama, now cha cha-ing his way through Latin America after dragging America into war in Libya.


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