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Daniel Ortega’s New Kind of CoupMANAGUA – Amid accusations of fraud and expressions of serious doubt by international observers, Daniel Ortega’s re-election as Nicaragua’s president constitutes a new kind of “incumbent’s” coup – one that establishes a dangerous precedent for Latin America.
Unfortunately, the OAS – though bound by the Inter-American Democratic Charter – has failed to act, revealing that it is not prepared to address the gray areas of electoral fraud.
With his widely documented history of fraud in the 2008 municipal elections, Ortega is on his way to becoming Latin America’s Robert Mugabe.
In most of Latin America, electoral fraud has become a thing of the past.
Another, equally likely, is that popular pressure and protest against fraud, mounting corruption, and authoritarianism lead to radical change.
So far, 14 men, including nine current or former FIFA executives (but not Blatter), have been charged with a range of fraud and corruption offenses in the United States, where prosecutors accuse them, among other things, of pocketing $150 million in bribes and kickbacks.
Officially, these laws were meant to prevent people from acquiring citizenship through fraud; in reality, they were also used to enforce loyalty to the state.
Nor is it likely to be replenished, because Daesh has been exposed as a fraud.
The procedural shortcuts, incomplete documentation, and rampant fraud that accompanied banks’ rush to generate millions of bad loans during the housing bubble has, however, complicated the process of cleaning up the ensuing mess.
Between issuing scurrilous charges of non-existent voter fraud, openly encouraging his fellow Republicans to engage in voter suppression, and inviting foreign powers to launch cyber attacks against his opponents, Trump has undermined the credibility of US elections.
The Algerian secularists’ strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly: Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists – with some exceptions – were cast as unprincipled opportunists.
Another of Berlusconi's economic wheezes is decriminalization of accounting fraud, something his government launched just when the world, in particular America, was establishing harsher punishments for dishonest managers and other fiduciaries.
One such man is fifty-eight year old heroin addict Billy Ochoa, who is serving a staggering 326 years in a supermax (super maximum security) prison for $2,100 of welfare fraud.
But Putin’s legitimacy has also been tainted by the pervasive fraud.
On that very day, Trump issued a racist attack on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over two fraud suits against Trump University, an institution that encouraged people to spend large amounts of money supposedly to learn the real-estate investment techniques that made Trump rich.
The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.
It was Russia’s attempt, only two and a half years ago, to install Yanukovych as President via rampant electoral fraud that touched off the “Orange Revolution.”
By providing and enforcing suitable rules of the game, and so deterring private predations conducted through fraud and coercion, the state acts as a facilitator of commerce.
This is why former US Vice President Al Gore’s climate adviser, Jim Hansen, who first brought concern about global warming to the public in 1988, called the Paris agreement “a fraud really, a fake” and “just worthless words.
It was a victory of democracy and independence over electoral fraud and naked power.
While election day itself was relatively free from fraud and thuggery, the process leading up to the ballot was fraught with abuse.
Poland has announced that it will grant Belarusians visas at no cost, while denying visas to a long list of regime officials that it says were involved in the recent electoral fraud.
Yet, amidst the news reports over the past few months of financial fraud, bloodshed in India and Gaza, and global economic disasters, one item stood out for its bravery and nobility.
The election fraud in Iran has caused a mass movement in the country’s cities, which – this much is clear even now – will fundamentally change the country.
If Ahmadinejad prevails, the dilemma for the West will be that it will have to deal with a regime discredited by election fraud, but still indispensable for resolving almost all of the Middle East’s important problems: Iran’s own nuclear program and the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has worked hard in recent months to expose Trump as the dangerous fraud that he is.
To deter fraud, governments should reward whistleblowers, and protect them from retaliation.
Those who have attained power through violence and fraud are not legitimate and should never more shame the UN by being members of this Commission.
Throughout the world, the number of companies facing legal problems for various types of fraud is growing dramatically.
In short, the global economy – replete with get-rich-quick schemes, overpaid bosses, and corporate fraud – has lost its moral bearings.
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