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  • | Fernanda LeMarie | MR Online

    U.S. targets Nicaraguan presidential election: former solidarity activists echo imperial talking points

    Originally published: Pressenza (July 15, 2021 )

    Now Uncle Sam has a problem in Nicaragua, where independent polls predict a landslide victory for Daniel Ortega’s leftist Sandinista slate in the November 7thpresidential elections.

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    In bourgeois society a violation of property rights is the supreme injustice. Hybrids provided a solution in agriculture. Commercial hybrids decrease the yield of the following generation. This means that farmers have to renew their seed every year. Hence, hybrids create a perpetual market for seed.

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