How fake news is manufactured in Daniel Ortega's Ncaragua. By torture and coercion, and with help from some anglophone Ortega boosters. From the Daily Beast:
A gun was pointed at her head, one of her comrades was on his knees threatened with execution, and Dania Valeska Alemán Sandoval told her interrogators what they wanted to hear.
Some 72 hours before, the 20-year-old Sandoval had been protesting bravely against the Nicaraguan regime, crouching behind a wall as gunshots punctuated her cries for freedom, and her apologies to her mother—“Perdoname!”—if she were killed. Sandinista militants were attacking the church in the capital, Managua, where she and 200 other unarmed students had sought refuge. The livestream video had gone viral.
Sandoval lived; two of her comrades were killed. But while she made it out alive, she had made herself a target.
Now, in a very different video, Sandoval declared in an over-acted confession that the people there with her had been heavily armed liars and thieves—killers....
The recording, spread online by partisans of Ortega’s besieged regime, was a major propaganda coup.
“I say those things because I was threatened,” Sandoval, who is now in hiding, told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview. “Before they took me to record the video I was beaten, I was tortured psychologically, there were a lot of obscene comments and among them there were also comments about how they were going to kill me,” she said.
One of the chief promoters of this fake news seems to have been an English Ortega-booster by the name of John Perry - a regular contributor, as it happens, to leftist journals such as the London Review of Books and The Nation.
A murky tale.
See here for some background on the return of Ortega.
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