Foreign Digest: Nicaragua, Iran and Georgia

Nicaragua

            A Nicaraguan human rights organization recently reported that hundreds of Nicaraguans have disappeared during the authoritarian Marxist Sandinista regime’s deadly crackdown on dissent.

Iran

            There continue to be protests against the tyrannical Islamist Iranian regime.

Georgia

           Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the Russian Federation invasion of Georgia.  The authoritarian and kleptocratic regime of Vladimir Putin seized two breakaway territories, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in 2008.  Russia established puppet states in those territories and has also made further encroachments into Georgian territory.  The Russian invasion of Georgia was followed by the invasion of Ukraine in 2014.  Georgia is considering joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  Russia has threatened Georgia with war if it joins.