Max Blumenthal: Nicaragua beat US regime change, but sanctions and sabotage continue

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🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explains how Nicaragua celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution just one year after defeating a US-backed coup effort — and how US sabotage efforts continue today. Guest: Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor of The Grayzone and author of several books including his latest, "The Management of Savagery." * Pushback with Aaron Maté * Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Pushback on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pushbackshow Aaron Maté on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronjmate Pushback on YouTube: http://youtube.com/thegrayzone Listen to Pushback on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow Subscribe to the Pushback podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pushback-with-aaron-mate/id1478159781 Find transcripts and more at https://thegrayzone.com/pushback thegrayzone.com/pushback Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pushback, I'm Aramette.
0:04.0	My colleagues at the Gray Zone, Max Blumenthal, and Ben Norton, were recently in Nicaragua for the 40th anniversary of the San Anista Revolution.
0:13.0	We're here at Managua's Plaza Central, where you can see behind me hundreds of thousands of people gathered
0:19.0	to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
0:22.6	Sandinista Front's victory over the dictator Anastasio Samosa in 1979 and the victory of the
0:30.6	Saninista Party and the elected government over a U.S.-backed coup last year. Welcome to
0:39.3	Nicaragua
0:42.3	Jinnu
0:43.3	Amaz
0:44.3	Mezzled
0:45.3	Me still is Max Blumenthal.
0:47.3	He is a senior editor at the Grey Zone
0:49.3	author of the Management of Savagery.
0:52.3	Welcome Max.
0:53.3	You went back to Nicaragua recently.
0:55.3	You were there a year ago covering the U.S.-backed coup. Talk to us about what you saw.
1:01.4	Well, when I arrived a year ago in Nicaragua, it was actually on a day before the anniversary
1:09.3	that is observed every year in the central plaza in Managua, Plaza de la
1:14.9	Faye, where Sandinistas from around the country come out and celebrate the July 19th anniversary
1:24.8	of the overthrow of the U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Samosa.
1:30.1	Last year was an interesting, pretty remarkable event because many Sandinistas beforehand
1:38.0	were not even sure anyone would show up.
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