Agree on almost all the points but I got the impression that you had a soft spot for those Nicaraguan hooligans. Guess I was wrong or did you look at them under a different lens?
yeah totally different, then the protest was sparked cause there was a law made reducing the pensions by 50% and increasing the contributions by 10%, so people went out to protest because that was fuck up what they were going to do to them old people
and after days of protest the dictator ordered a full force police reprisal, military deployed as civilians with their service automatics, and arming literally street gang members, those protesters weren't hooligans, they were fighting for their lives
it was not a matter of a few bad apples, it was the chief of police of the city of Masaya taking 22 detainees to a nearby jungle field pouring gasoline on them and burning them alive, their suspect searches tactic was to start fires in people's home to get them to come out in plain day sight with cameras rolling, it was the courts prosecuting and sentencing people to 30 year sentences 3 days after being arrested and then welcoming them to prison by sodomizing their anus with sticks
it was a dictator fearing a Gaddafi moment, it was brutality, they were not hooligans, they were fighting for their lives
all that happened two years ago, I was not gonna get involved, it was not my fight but by pure chance my id ended in one of their list, un día de suerte I guess, after that looking back I lost big but some lost a lot more in a battle in vain that won't be remembered in history, so yeah I look at them differently, and with a soft spot
Brazilian govt send army or paramilitary forces when police went on strike?
Yes on both occasion the full military was deployed but only after about a week where most of the damage was already done.