The US news media is completely ignoring real news about how Daniel Ortega has been slaughtering protesters in Nicaragua, and I only learned about this in a small article about Nicaragua's dying tourism industry. How did that happen, especially when the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre became so famous?

Because Ortega was (and to some extent, still is) a darling of the news media; they're not going to say anything bad about him.

It could also be, that Ortega's murder of protesters doesn't advance the media's agenda, so they don't report it.

Also, most of the Nicaraguan media is government run. If they print opposition pieces, they disappear. And US media is more leftist/socialist than Ortega so don't expect any real news from them either. And the ones who suffer the most are the Nicaraguan people.

I thought CNN was a US news media but I have probably gotten it wrong:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/22/americas/nicaragua-mothers-flee-to-cathedral/index.html
By Kay Guerrero, CNN

Updated 2201 GMT (0601 HKT) July 22, 2018


"The groups carrying out Operation Cleaning were armed when they stormed Monimbó, a stronghold of the country's anti-government movement in western Nicaragua Tuesday.
The clash, which left the area littered with shell casings and shattered glass, lasted more than four hours and saw protesters armed with homemade mortars pitted against hooded government loyalists with automatic, high-caliber weapons, reporters with CNN said.
Four people were killed in this attack, CENIDH said -- three civilians and one policeman.
In a statement, the Nicaraguan National Police identified the policeman as Kelvin Javier Rivera, saying that he was killed by "terrorist groups." The statement did not make any comments about the civilians killed.
CNN talked to a group of protesters in Monimbó who described the post-attack scene as a "war zone." Carlos Trujillo, US ambassador to the OAS, condemned the forceful intervention in Monimbó, describing the government's actions as "genocide."

"The government's repeated acts of violence and repression will only lead to further isolation and sanctions," he wrote on Twitter."

There is also this on FOX:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/26/fear-uncertain-future-for-nicaraguas-student-protesters.html

/ Robin

But the rest of the US news media has completely ignored it.

I don't know if the rest of the US media picked up on it or not since I consume media on the other side of the Atlantic.
Some of the links below seem to go to radio channels but that means that the news has probably gone out over the radio channel as well as over their website.

Wikipedia knows about it at least:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nicaraguan_protests

Two more from CNN:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/15/americas/nicaragua-deaths-protests/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/05/americas/nicaragua-violent-protests/index.html
Could it be that the rest of US media don't tune in to CNN?
Could it be that they are considered leftist???

And CBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicaragua-protesters-demand-president-ortega-step-down-after-hundreds-killed-in-clashes/

And the Fake News Central in the Big Apple:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/world/americas/nicaragua-protests-killings.html

Who are Global News ??
https://globalnews.ca/news/4333145/nicaragua-protests-10-killed/

Newsweek:
https://www.newsweek.com/309-nicaraguans-killed-75-days-anti-government-protests-1007469


VOA News ??? Who/What are they??
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-citizen-killed-in-nicaraguan-protests/4421242.html

Washington Post (requires login or agree to view as Guest)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2fworld%2fthe_americas%2fdeath-toll-reaches-100-in-nicaragua-as-political-violence-intensifies%2f2018%2f06%2f01%2f74bd5a64-65b0-11e8-81ca-bb14593acaa6_story.html%3f&utm_term=.99749b57c970
" After a brief pause for dialogue, violence has returned to Nicaragua in recent days, as police and pro-government militias have clashed with protesters and businesses have been looted and burned.

The unrest this past week has intensified a crisis that has gripped Nicaragua since April. Protesters have been demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla who is now in his third term in office and holds near total power along with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.

Human rights workers say that some 100 people have been killed since the uprising began. Ortega’s government blames the violence on right-wing agitators.

A march through Managua on Wednesday, led by mothers of those killed during protests, ended when gunmen opened fire on the crowd. Witnesses have accused police and their civilian allies of initiating the violence that left as many as 18 people dead and more than 200 wounded."

Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/eleven-killed-in-nicaragua-as-government-targets-opposition-strongholds-1531699706

NPR (some radio network ????)
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/15/629212969/2-students-killed-in-nicaragua?t=1537529947737

Reuters, a worldwide news distrihutor had this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nicaragua-protests/nicaragua-students-freed-from-church-after-violent-night-one-killed-idUSKBN1K410K
"Sending the students home could expose them to more attacks, said Gonzalo Carrion of Nicaragua’s Center for Human Rights.

“As well as trying to shoot and kill the students, when they don’t kill them, they are beaten up and charged with committing horrific crimes,” Carrion said.

Francisco Palmieri, the U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, on Twitter condemned what he called attacks by pro-government forces against the UNAN students. “This violence to intimidate and repress the people must cease immediately,” he said.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio tweeted on Friday night that if U.S. staff or their families were harmed, Ortega would “personally face severe repercussions.” "
The Reuters article said that Marco Rubio tweeted about it.
But if other media and newspapers don't pick it up ...

Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article214863255.html

WLRN (also Florida??)
http://www.wlrn.org/post/violence-likely-worsen-nicaraguans-watch-ortega-forces-kill-their-children

CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/nicaragua-crisis-anti-ortega-protests-and-state-sanctioned-violence.html

The Christian Post (What is that?)
https://www.christianpost.com/news/paramilitaries-kill-two-student-protesters-during-nicaragua-church-siege-226069/

NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/violence-rings-out-nicaraguan-church-university-after-nationwide-strike-n891421

There is also something in The Guardian but that is a U newspaper so it doesn't count here.

USA Today
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/16/ten-shot-dead-during-attack-police-paramilitary-nicaragua/790810002/

CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nicaragua-protest-police-shooting-business-early-election-1.4685324

The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/nicaragua-ortega-protests/562094/

Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/65a32bd0-a462-11e8-8ecf-a7ae1beff35b

Time
http://time.com/5309575/nicaragua-protests-unrest-venezuela/


Breitbart (not leftist at least .....)
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/25/refugees-central-america-violence-pour-mexico/

Chicago Tribune (I get blocked due to the GDPR mess)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-nicaragua-student-killed-20180724-story.html
(I got access by letting Google translate to Swedish (not a pretty sight but readable ...) Maybe the Tribune is not your favourite either?

America The Jesuit Review ...
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/05/29/masked-men-attack-jesuit-university-nicaragua

Big Country in Tulsa ?!?!?!?
https://www.bigcountry995.com/newsy/report-nicaragua-using-shoot-to-kill-policy-to-deal-with-protests

The Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facing-down-the-death-squads-of-nicaragua-33

The NewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/nicaragua-on-the-brink-once-again

ABC 17 ???
https://www.abc17news.com/news/national-world/nicaragua-life-has-normalized-after-protests/790173604

Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/10/nicaragua-senior-officials-responsible-abuse

The Economist
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/06/09/time-is-running-out-for-nicaraguas-president-daniel-ortega

The Denver Channel
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/newsy/report-nicaragua-using-shoot-to-kill-policy-to-deal-with-protests

The LA Times (blocked because of GDPR )
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-us-nicaragua-20180607-story.html

MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/sports/watch/report-nicaragua-using-shoot-to-kill-policy-to-deal-with-protests/vp-AAy19kv

Democracy Now (is this some kind of leftist media??)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/4/headlines/nicaragua_at_least_110_people_killed_in_escalating_anti_government_protests

Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/03/new-nicaragua-violence-kills-six-including-american.html

KRCU (NPR in southeast Missouri)
http://www.krcu.org/post/dozens-killed-protests-nicaragua#stream/0

KTLA
https://ktla.com/2018/05/29/amnesty-international-investigation-finds-nicaragua-has-instituted-deadly-shoot-to-kill-policy-toward-protesters/

University of Texas
https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-19570-nicaraguan-journalist-killed-during-facebook-live-broadcast-protests-against-pension-r

That's just a few of the search results from Google.
Given the fact that there are a LOT of different news media in the US with different coverage areas, focus areas and subscribers/readers the probability of seeing these news is still low.


/ Robin

Hi,
media is being manipulated these days and important news about human rights are never highlighted.