Carlos fernando chamorro biography examples

The political dynamics of the Chamorro family are extremely complex. His assassination on January 10, — by agents still unknown — made him a national hero and helped turn the middle class against Somoza. She resigned after less than a year when the Council began moving further towards socialism. Today, prominent members of the Chamorro family have played and are playing leading roles in the right wing led opposition and are supporting US intervention.

Carlos Fernando himself is a leading opposition propagandist. His sister Cristiana Chamorro is touted as a possible future presidential candidate by the Nicaraguan opposition and his cousin Juan Sebastian Chamorro was a leading figure throughout the failed coup attempt between April and July last year. And none more so than Confidencial, which over the past year has persisted in publishing fake news and false information designed to promote further chaos and instability and serving as a mouthpiece for the right wing led opposition.

The role played by the media is well illustrated in the Telesur article see link below. More ruthlessly cynical than even the anti-Sandinista La Prensa newspaper, Confidencial is among the most influential disinformation sources feeding other Western news media what to think and say about Nicaragua.

Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios

In one of his regular interviews September with World Bank representative Luis Constantino, Carlos Fernando was talking to the World Bank representative and trying to get him to agree that the poverty reduction figures that the government had put out were not accurate; however, Constantino insisted that they were the World Bank figures and refused to back down.

Finally Carlos Fernando had to change the subject. The link to the interview is below Connections between the Chamorro family and Washington have deep roots. The MRS, whose popular base within the country is minuscule, plays a much greater role in what is recognised as the opposition than its size warrants and it has been adept at courting Western support, particularly in the media.

Yet the Nicaraguan government is now being confronted by a US-driven and Washington-funded right wing opposition whose battle line is a smear campaign based on a collection of false allegations aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected FSLN government. Western media and NGOs describe Chamorro as a freelance journalist.