Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Foreign Digest Updates: Nicaragua, Russia, Hong Kong and Sweden


Nicaragua     
            There continue to be deadly protests against the authoritarian Marxist Sandinista Nicaraguan regime.

Russia
            The Russian democratic opposition leader Alexi Navalny was arrested again yesterday, immediately after having been released from prison, because of his organization of peaceful protests against the tyrannical and kleptocratic regime of Vladimir Putin.  Over the last several months, here have been frequent protests for liberty and against corruption and Russian intervention in Syria’s Civil War.  The regime does not tolerate the freedom of peaceful assembly.  It has arrested thousands of protesters.

Hong Kong
            A pro-independence Hong Kong party was banned recently by the pro-Peking territorial government.  The territory was promised basic liberty and the free market after reverting to Chinese rule from rule by the United Kingdom in 1997, but the Communist Chinese regime based in Peking has been gradually violating Hong Kong’s freedoms and self-government.

Sweden
           The center-left Prime Minister of Sweden lost a vote of confidence this week in the Parliament, following recent parliamentary elections in which no party won a majority and the liberals lost seats.  The loss of confidence was a first in Swedish history.  The leader of the largest center-right party will attempt to form a government.  Although his party also lost seats, the two smaller parties in the center-right bloc gained seats.  The far-right nationalists gained seats, as did smaller left-wing parties.

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