The Ortegas: Nicaragua’s Dynasty of Nightmares

Uncover the shocking and chilling history of Nicaragua's modern dictator, Daniel Ortega, in this eye-opening video. Explore his rise to power, his family's role in the regime, and the horrifying abuses committed against the Nicaraguan people. Don't miss this deep dive into a real-life dystopia.
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  • @bluegold1026
    @bluegold10268 ай бұрын

    May the Ortega regime's downfall be swift and merciless.

  • @raphaellall6270

    @raphaellall6270

    8 ай бұрын

    May the United States collapse be quick and merciless...

  • @ernestkhalimov1007

    @ernestkhalimov1007

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@matiasd.c9949it actually does since they won various elections in the past since the libs were infinitely more useless

  • @rayojordan2838

    @rayojordan2838

    6 ай бұрын

    @matiasd.c9949that’s cause those are Sandinistas 😂 the Sandinistas would die for Ortega would lick his boots and all😂

  • @Trihahalos

    @Trihahalos

    2 ай бұрын

    come with the butt

  • @harenjaegger7930
    @harenjaegger79308 ай бұрын

    Nicaraguan living in Nicaragua here, a pretty good video resuming the regime, but just wanted to point out that the woman in a photo referred to as Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is actually Cristiana Chamorro her daughter, who in 2021 expressed intention to run as president, and was among the possible candidates, but ended up under home arrest until she was sent to exiled along with 200+ other political prisoners on a fly to the U.S early this Year.

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588

    @robertortiz-wilson1588

    8 ай бұрын

    Oh...

  • @ernestkhalimov1007

    @ernestkhalimov1007

    7 ай бұрын

    They're both crooks though too and incapable of governing

  • @PhuckYT12

    @PhuckYT12

    6 ай бұрын

    @matiasd.c9949 Oh look, didn't know Nicaragua had bots

  • @1dvs_bstd

    @1dvs_bstd

    3 ай бұрын

    @matiasd.c9949 Even a wrong clock is right twice a day.

  • @JoeRogansForehead

    @JoeRogansForehead

    Ай бұрын

    @matiasd.c9949based

  • @blackwatertv7018
    @blackwatertv70188 ай бұрын

    I don’t think a lot of Americans realize that if these countries actually get stable again that will ease the “ migration crisis”

  • @tomsolo7426

    @tomsolo7426

    8 ай бұрын

    Oh we do. We also think we need to be their great saviors, or they should get under the boot and be quiet. Neither work, as history shows, but we do love f*cking with people.

  • @ZeroResurrected

    @ZeroResurrected

    8 ай бұрын

    @@tomsolo7426Actually, it has worked. Many times. It worked for Germany, Italy, Japan, Panama, Kuwait, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, Greece, Oman, Armenia, Taiwan and many others

  • @ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164

    @ibrahimdelomavicsmithson164

    8 ай бұрын

    which one is "it"@@ZeroResurrected

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    8 ай бұрын

    It would certainly help.

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    8 ай бұрын

    ​​​​@ZeroResurrected as someone whose family is Korean, i would point out that democracy came to Korea *despite* the US, not because of it. Washington was more than happy to keep their puppet dictatorship in power. The same is true in Taiwan. And the Philippines is another such story. The US may have removed Noriega but it wasn't in *any* way to restore democracy to Panama.

  • @Wajayajanadu
    @Wajayajanadu8 ай бұрын

    Well, as a Nicaraguan that fears potentially being monitored if I express my opinion on such matters or videos I just have to say that everything mentioned on this video is factually correct. P.S: Do not believe everything you read in the comments, propaganda (specially around volcanoes or crime to invite tourist) is the way they deflect any question or accountability.

  • @donaldoflores8374

    @donaldoflores8374

    8 ай бұрын

    As a Nicaraguan I can say we don't want Nicaraguans like you, what you think because you're out of the country the fact that you're asking for tourism to nose dive in the nation won't damage the economy of the locals? And fear of being monitored my ass everybody says whatever the hell they want on social network stop acting like we are living under the NSA

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    8 ай бұрын

    You're not the only one. I heard prominent Nicaraguan-American Ana Navarro address complaints that she doesn't speak out against Ortega enough. She said that her father still lives in Nicaragua and she fears that Ortega, being the allegedly vicious and vindictive man she says he is, will visit his wrath upon her frail and elderly father.

  • @PrimericanIdol

    @PrimericanIdol

    8 ай бұрын

    @@vic5015 Those Gusanos will eventually get what they deserve. They want Nicaragua to become an obedient US puppy dog at best, or a full-blown state at worst.

  • @aresjerry

    @aresjerry

    8 ай бұрын

    Met an immigrant from Nicgaragua, he had to escape because his friend disappeared after a social media post. And they started rounding up everyone who liked the post. He is happy to be in America, is thankful to have any job. And was happy to just be alive and be a pizza delivery driver.

  • @donaldoflores8374

    @donaldoflores8374

    8 ай бұрын

    @@aresjerry he is bullshitting you.

  • @Akron162
    @Akron1628 ай бұрын

    As a costarrican, i can say that living next to this guy is very stressful. Every time there is some sort of internal strife in Nicaragua he threatens war with Costa Rica as a distraction tactic, and the sheer numbers of people escaping his regime have caused several migratory crises the last few years. I can only imagine how horrible it must be to actually have to live in the same country as him.

  • @josejulianpazlopez9140

    @josejulianpazlopez9140

    8 ай бұрын

    Viva Nicaragua🇳🇮💙

  • @Akron162

    @Akron162

    8 ай бұрын

    @@josejulianpazlopez9140 claro. Sin Ortega.

  • @Akron162

    @Akron162

    8 ай бұрын

    @matiasd.c9949 well, there are always sellouts and traitors that support tyrants as long as they tell them what they want to hear. That's usually how democracies die. Too bad everyone who thinks differently gets killed or thrown in jail. But hey, the guy built some hospitals, so who cares about human rights or actual social progress, right?

  • @505NI

    @505NI

    7 ай бұрын

    I have 26 years of living in Nicaragua and I’ve never heard Ortega talking about going to war with our southern friends, Ortega is a fucking moron but we would never go to war with Costa Rica since we would get smashed inna dash by Costa Rica’s Allies. Ortega always blames the US not Costa Rica.

  • @no89lan3

    @no89lan3

    7 ай бұрын

    You should be more stressed about the rising homicide rate in Costa Rica, which is now filled with sicarios.

  • @EpicgamerwinXD6669
    @EpicgamerwinXD66698 ай бұрын

    You could honestly make an entire channel dedicated obscure dictators of past and present around the world Simon. That's extremely depressing when you think about it though...

  • @ignitionfrn2223

    @ignitionfrn2223

    8 ай бұрын

    Well , *Into the Shadows* might be the perfect pick amarite ?

  • @WaveGretzky4440

    @WaveGretzky4440

    8 ай бұрын

    Don't give him any ideas bro i can barely catch up with all his channels already

  • @thesuncollective1475

    @thesuncollective1475

    8 ай бұрын

    If anything it's a reminder that if we allow dubious people into power this is where we can end up.

  • @EpicgamerwinXD6669

    @EpicgamerwinXD6669

    8 ай бұрын

    @@lylecoglianese1645 you do know the United States isn't single handedly responsible for ever dictator ever right?

  • @rejvaik00

    @rejvaik00

    8 ай бұрын

    I'd welcome a dictator video on Peru under Japanese-Peruvian president Fujimori His daughter is still surprisingly also involved in Peru politics to this day

  • @hkrohn
    @hkrohn8 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video! I've been so many times to Nicaragua the recent years and it's constantly getting worse. Of course not for foreign visitors, but for normal, intelligent people who want a normal country to live in.

  • @no89lan3

    @no89lan3

    7 ай бұрын

    I am a Nicaraguan, I enjoy my country so cut the BS.

  • @Psilomuscimol

    @Psilomuscimol

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@no89lan3. No matter how bad the country is, someone will enjoy it.

  • @j.s.c.4355
    @j.s.c.43558 ай бұрын

    This is so sad in light of how hopeful this country seemed whenI was there in the 90’s.

  • @BruceBoyde
    @BruceBoyde8 ай бұрын

    Wow, I had no idea about this. I remember thinking "why is Nicaragua of all countries siding with Russia?" after that UN resolution and figured it must have been an economic client state situation. I didn't realize it was a deeply authoritarian functional dictatorship virtue signaling to one of the few nations that doesn't care about that kind of thing.

  • @Theshropshireratter

    @Theshropshireratter

    8 ай бұрын

    Early in the sandernesa rebellion they were so under armed government m4 sherman tanks gave goverment forces the uperhand and nearly crushed the rebellion

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    8 ай бұрын

    Probably because Reagan tried *very* hard to overthrow Ortega the first time. And i have little doubt Reagan would have liked to see Ortega dead.

  • @vic5015

    @vic5015

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@Theshropshireratteri thought the Sandanistas *were* the government and the contras (of Iran-contra fame) were the rebels.

  • @robot336

    @robot336

    8 ай бұрын

    He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

  • @BruceBoyde

    @BruceBoyde

    8 ай бұрын

    @@vic5015 oh yeah, don't get me wrong. I won't deny for a second that 99% of the political turmoil in Central and South America is the direct result of American meddling. I just wasn't aware of the fact of it today.

  • @BlackKnigth323
    @BlackKnigth3238 ай бұрын

    Ironically when he asked about dictators, well, Ortega came to my mind But also because I'm from Costa Rica so it is literally next to my country

  • @swampfox984

    @swampfox984

    8 ай бұрын

    Honestly, he would comes to my mind is well. Which is weird, I live in Alaska which is now where close to Nicaragua.

  • @gordonlumbert9861

    @gordonlumbert9861

    8 ай бұрын

    He was in the news a lot in the states in the 80s.

  • @robot336

    @robot336

    8 ай бұрын

    He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

  • @andreasottohansen7338

    @andreasottohansen7338

    7 ай бұрын

    Ortega did come to mind for me once he pronounced the name (as I have never actually seen it written), even if I am more often worried about the crackpot despots in my own backyard (Orban, Lukasjenko, and Putin)

  • @gideonhorwitz9434
    @gideonhorwitz94348 ай бұрын

    Some times liberators can turn out to be worse oppressors

  • @nosonoliento

    @nosonoliento

    8 ай бұрын

    "Inside every revolutionary is a closeted aristocrat."

  • @titan133760

    @titan133760

    8 ай бұрын

    Reminds me of the words of Jose Rizal: "What is the use of independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? And no doubt they will, because whoever submits to tyranny loves it!"

  • @andreasottohansen7338

    @andreasottohansen7338

    7 ай бұрын

    This is what we call a "full circle revolution"

  • @shzarmai

    @shzarmai

    7 ай бұрын

    Yep....

  • @razorburn645

    @razorburn645

    19 күн бұрын

    "Liberated? No, under new management".

  • @reni344
    @reni3448 ай бұрын

    He didn't even deny sexually assulting his step daughter he said he had immunity. He basically admitted he did it but you cant do anything about it. 😮 You know you have all the power when you are that bold.

  • @cantsay2205

    @cantsay2205

    8 ай бұрын

    Imagine staying married to the freak that raped your daughter, or letting him live. He would be bleeding to death from where his peen used to be if that were my child, I'm not scared of prison, I'd be a hero.

  • @gordonlumbert9861

    @gordonlumbert9861

    8 ай бұрын

    A lot of people and countries don't believe in rule of law. I'm surprised he even responded.

  • @ZeroResurrected

    @ZeroResurrected

    8 ай бұрын

    @@ajitadonismanilal9105Yes, there absolutely is good and evil in this world and the only people who believe otherwise have no real values in their lives

  • @donaldoflores8374

    @donaldoflores8374

    8 ай бұрын

    Due I also believe he is a rapists but this is false.

  • @robot336

    @robot336

    8 ай бұрын

    He sound's like old man Biden and his daughter in the shower and the Biden crime family

  • @vic5015
    @vic50158 ай бұрын

    Ortega would do well to keep this in mind: the last straw for many Egyptians was hearing that Mubarak allegedly intended for there to be a dynastic transfer of power to his son.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22238 ай бұрын

    1:25 - Chapter 1 - Meet the ortegas 10:30 - Chapter 2 - The regime

  • @rinzo2009
    @rinzo20098 ай бұрын

    Simon Sensei, it's quite rare for me to be actually depressed by any of your videos on your multiple channels, but this one has eaten the cake. Any mother that would rather choose the rapist and her political career over the mental wellbeing of her child (and firstborn child at that) ain't a mother no more, but a bigger monster than her husband. If she can throw her firstborn under the bus, just to be named as VP (and next in line), what do you think she would do to her other kids just to secure her throne?

  • @bachvandals3259

    @bachvandals3259

    8 ай бұрын

    The 2019 documentary film Exiliada (English: Exiled) revolves around and interviews her, as well as her complaints of sexual abuse against Ortega in 1998. This is the only "source" there is about this alleged affair, its worth knowing that its made during the election, so does every time she recalled her "abuses". She also insisted that she were rape in 1990s, when she were already kicked out of the house, she later then said its only through the phone. She now have a cushy non-job of "activists" in Costa Rica, with unknown funding. I REALLY want to believe every victims out there, but this has every reasons to be fake, no evident whatsoever and too much of a reasoning. He killed tens of thousands of peoples... That alone should be the focus, not some sham allegation.

  • @rinzo2009

    @rinzo2009

    8 ай бұрын

    @@bachvandals3259 If that be the case, then why did the accused apply for immunity against it? Secondly, being the adopted first born of the President, while would she risk exile and possible fumigation with such an accusation? She already had everything in the land to enjoy (as the President's kid) and she wouldn't want to throw it away just like that unless there's some credence to the tale.

  • @bachvandals3259

    @bachvandals3259

    8 ай бұрын

    @@rinzo2009 I would have to check, but all the sources that i have (the interview movie itself, wikipedia and the Nicaraguan press), there is no charges nor trial ever been put forward. Not that any member of parliament have immunity anyway, there are no specific laws that prevent indictments of lawmakers in Nicaragua. So i guess(and this is pure speculation because of how poorly sourced this is), she filed charges in costa rica and demand he went there and be in custody of foreign police until his trial in the middle of an election cycle which he can refuse as a foreign diplomat. She was only a step-child, Ortega never have to any plans for her for inheritance so she has always been a grifter living off her mom inside the presidential homes. Graduating from a bad local university, she never got a real job and keep ping-ponging between parliament position that her mom gave her until her mom had enough and kick her out of the house. She now have a cushy job as an "LGBTI activist" in costa rica, likely paid by her father opposer, she definitely have things turn out better than starving to death on street, of course she would be lying.

  • @bachvandals3259

    @bachvandals3259

    8 ай бұрын

    @@rinzo2009 I found the source, albeit a little funky, an UK independent archived post in 2022. She filed charges in Nicaragua while he was at the UN general assembly in 1998, a whole 8 years after she was kicked out of the house(so no, she didn't risk anything, she have nothing to lose at this point and want to score some easy money). The court(controlled at this point by President José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo, an anti-sandinista) still have to shut this down because of lack of evident, not by any kind of immunity(which can also be revoked by the court), the Sandinista only have 4 seat in congress and have little power in the government, if the court have proof whatsoever he would have been in jail.

  • @harenjaegger7930

    @harenjaegger7930

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@bachvandals3259 The judge for that case was Juana Mendez, she worked during the 80s for the State Department and was a fierce Sandinista, she archived the entire case, and guess who nowadays is one of the Magister of the Nicaraguan Supreme Court of Justice, Juana Mendes, even tho the Sandinistas no longer hold the power at that time there were still several remanents working for the government.

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples8 ай бұрын

    Rest in peace to those that passed away.

  • @harrisonmiller6475
    @harrisonmiller64758 ай бұрын

    Can u do an episode on brutal the 24 year regime of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu in Romania? Just an idea 4 u

  • @gordonlumbert9861

    @gordonlumbert9861

    8 ай бұрын

    It seems to be similar I think Simon already has them on another channel. Biography maybe?

  • @tonyahinrichs8828
    @tonyahinrichs88288 ай бұрын

    Thank god. A Simon fix. Never leave me Simon....

  • @jibjones1233
    @jibjones12338 ай бұрын

    Damn its depressing hearing how much power his family has and how familiar that is to our ruling class

  • @dockerdave
    @dockerdave8 ай бұрын

    You should do an episode on Hun Sen in Cambodia. From being a senior member of the Khmer Rouge to ruling the country with an iron fist and imprisoning and murdering opposition from 1985 until this year, he's been a terrible person

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588

    @robertortiz-wilson1588

    8 ай бұрын

    I agree.

  • @DarthWaderFC3S
    @DarthWaderFC3S8 ай бұрын

    I suggest people look into the father Fabretto foundation. Its been a while since i went to nicaragua but Fabretto is one of the positive things there for the Nicaraguan people. San José de Cusmapa and the people there will always hold a place in my heart.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado34308 ай бұрын

    Thanks For these

  • @neldenscarlet9570
    @neldenscarlet95708 ай бұрын

    Its terribly ironic how ortega became the very monster he once tried to destroy.

  • @pi1392

    @pi1392

    8 ай бұрын

    that's why we should be wary of white nights and saviours, they use justice to suit their own dark purposes.

  • @piotrswat169

    @piotrswat169

    8 ай бұрын

    Monsters created this monster.

  • @pjjarrell300
    @pjjarrell3008 ай бұрын

    Great coverage

  • @Craftymom1o19
    @Craftymom1o198 ай бұрын

    That’s an awesome into!!

  • @gabedecartago905
    @gabedecartago9058 ай бұрын

    As a Tico one of the worst mistake of my country was helping the sandinistas

  • @twofiveb
    @twofiveb5 ай бұрын

    Looks like Ortega learned a lot about how to be a crooked, ruthless, despot from Somoza after all.

  • @dsgdsg9764
    @dsgdsg97648 ай бұрын

    You you got me I don't know much about Nicaragua

  • @xxbobsetsfirexx4269
    @xxbobsetsfirexx42698 ай бұрын

    "Nicaragua!!!...Agua!...are you threatening me?"

  • @aussieausbourne1
    @aussieausbourne18 ай бұрын

    This has got to be the family the creators of the walking dead were suggesting the hispanic character that tortures the soldier in the first season of fear the walking dead or he was an enforcer for them with his outlook on getting information from people

  • @mikeroberts7921
    @mikeroberts79214 ай бұрын

    So sad. I have traveled there and it is a beautiful country with amazing people.

  • @tmane1862
    @tmane1862Ай бұрын

    Lol the way Simon pronounces Nicaragua is so damn funny to me! “Neecorauwguwa” 😂😂😂

  • @hannahp1108
    @hannahp11087 ай бұрын

    You should cover the Iran-Contra Affair!

  • @TheForeignersNetwork
    @TheForeignersNetwork8 ай бұрын

    Samoza was bad and so is Ortega. It can't be understated that the use of foreign intervention in Nicaragua's politics is almost entirely to blame for its terrifying sequence of dictators. If the US hadn't supported the Samoza regime, then the Sandinistas wouldn't have been nearly as reactionary towards it as they were. On top of that, the Iran-Contra scandal led to a bunch of chaos in the US as well--It was partially to blame for the crack-cocaine epidemic that absolutely devastated inner cities. Because of the Nixon and then the Reagan presidencies, the US now has an outsized number of incarcerated people.

  • @JackPitmanNica

    @JackPitmanNica

    3 ай бұрын

    This is the most realistic comment I've seen so far, and I've read down a bunch of them. As Americans, we are often so quick to point fingers at the consequences of our foreign policy... as if we had nothing to do with it. Your open-mindedness of the subject would make me assume, you are not an American 🤣

  • @TheForeignersNetwork

    @TheForeignersNetwork

    3 ай бұрын

    @@JackPitmanNica I'm an American with a degree in international relations. I think the number one misconception that Americans have about our foreign policy is that it somehow doesn't affect us. And nothing could be further from the truth--When your country engages in coercive international relations, it creates problems for everyone involved, including for people in the nation doing the coercion.

  • @JackPitmanNica

    @JackPitmanNica

    3 ай бұрын

    You have brightened my day @@TheForeignersNetwork

  • @joshwinslow8397
    @joshwinslow83976 ай бұрын

    My GF lives in the country and im worried sending her this will cause issues for her while shes there

  • @douglassauvageau7262
    @douglassauvageau72625 ай бұрын

    As a U.S. Air Force reservist, I deployed to the southern border of Honduras ostensibly to support the 'War On Drugs' in the late 1980s. Subsequent deployments from deep Amazonia to the Caribbean and the southwest border of the U.S. plus a jaundiced observation of political dynamics in the Western Hemisphere and my subsequent deployments from our Homeland to the Mediterranean and points east in support to the 'War On Terrorism' leave me to wonder WHY (?). What purpose does all that monkey-motion serve?

  • @douglassauvageau7262

    @douglassauvageau7262

    5 ай бұрын

    I am a pedestrian-proponent of the Monroe Doctrine. If (after 75 years) NATO cannot coalesce and after 50 years of vigorous encouragement of a Beijing-led renaissance, I propose that the U.S. recommit to President Kennedy's proclamation that "we intend to remain masters of our own house".

  • @JackPitmanNica

    @JackPitmanNica

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your comment Doug. I feel you... whats the point of it, after all? As Smedley Butler said one hundred years ago... war is a racket. @@douglassauvageau7262

  • @halfdead4566
    @halfdead45668 ай бұрын

    Aslo thank you simon for teaching us information we wouldn't find normally or care about unless we were there

  • @erikmar2979

    @erikmar2979

    8 ай бұрын

    This video is worthless as a historical recap. Read Stephen Kinzer's Blood of Brothers instead.

  • @chopsticksandchappedlips9734
    @chopsticksandchappedlips97348 ай бұрын

    Do a video about Eritrea.

  • @paolosantiago3163
    @paolosantiago316314 күн бұрын

    So sad I really hope someday dictatorship in Nicaragua 🇳🇮🇳🇮 will finally over that's why never take your freedom for granted/nothing. 😢😢

  • @rvierra7235
    @rvierra72353 ай бұрын

    In a nutshell, this is one of the best docu's on Nicaragua I have seen, and I have been reading and watching since the 80's.

  • @YeeSoest
    @YeeSoest8 ай бұрын

    Every video about recent or topical global events has a moment where somebody at Lockheed Martin goes "Oh yes, please do that!" 19:53 is that moment

  • @RSanchez111
    @RSanchez1118 ай бұрын

    7:02 that is a photo of Violeta Chamorro's daughter, Cristiana.

  • @dfdemt
    @dfdemt8 ай бұрын

    Watched this just to hear Simon’s pronunciation of Nicaragua. 😂

  • @rachelnelson3923

    @rachelnelson3923

    8 ай бұрын

    Nicaragyoua! Couldn’t get past it. It’s like Nicaraqwa Simon! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sunny_froyo

    @sunny_froyo

    8 ай бұрын

    I couldn't hear anything but the horrible sound of him trying to say the country's name. Literally retained 0% info beside Nicaraguyoua

  • @jacquelinekenknight9280

    @jacquelinekenknight9280

    3 ай бұрын

    I had to google how to pronounce it because he had me doubting myself 😂😂

  • @elmartell5724
    @elmartell57248 ай бұрын

    Time for a Romanov maneuver 👀👀

  • @Anonymous-ed8om
    @Anonymous-ed8om8 ай бұрын

    Video editing on point as always

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott95468 ай бұрын

    The Horror. The Horror.

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.69328 ай бұрын

    6:04 I VAGUELY remember Oliver North being a big deal in the news.

  • @Loralanthalas

    @Loralanthalas

    8 ай бұрын

    Must have been a kid. He was plastered all over for years.

  • @j.p.6932

    @j.p.6932

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Loralanthalas Yeah, I don’t remember what year it was, but I remember SNL not making a ton of sense. And there was a video game with “Contra” in the title, so always wondered if it was related.

  • @djdrack4681
    @djdrack46818 ай бұрын

    I've known about him bcuz friends help run a set of charities that help orphanages in a 1/2 doz 3rd world hellscapes: Guatemala, Nicaragua, DNC, Rwanda, Belize to name a few. When you're aware of the pure authoritarian/tyrannical control they have over the economy/resources/utilities you immediately understand what a POS these leaders are; I remember the friend describing projects to install Solar panels for a couple big centers in Nicaragua/Guatemala: and how it was to resolve the insane electric bills (for just basic lights/water pumps/Frigerators etc) $10-20k/month for places with only 200-ish kids. Just plain unaffordable unless you're part of the corrupt gov + cronies. We're talking modern LED lights, not giant halogen/incand power hogs or huge flood/street lights. Central America has a LONG ROAD to becoming even a moderately developed/HDI/Rights index.

  • @pancholopez8829

    @pancholopez8829

    8 ай бұрын

    How bad is Belize?

  • @djdrack4681

    @djdrack4681

    8 ай бұрын

    @@pancholopez8829I'd say they're all about the same. Costa Rica is the only central American nation even remotely decent, but it still has a lot of shortcomings. Some like Belize aren't 'as' authoritarian, but they're still pretty corrupt AF; and there the economy sucks, which is a big factor if I was to guess. I'd have to check but I think Belize is also one of them that has been in bed with CCP China, but I could be wrong on that.

  • @RebeccaOre

    @RebeccaOre

    8 ай бұрын

    Ortega never was a Marxist. Also, can you learn to say “Nicaragua” correctly.

  • @djdrack4681

    @djdrack4681

    8 ай бұрын

    @@RebeccaOrevit-amins vite-amins lol

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588

    @robertortiz-wilson1588

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@RebeccaOreeeehhh....

  • @Twelveinchpianist
    @Twelveinchpianist8 ай бұрын

    Even talking about horrible sociopaths...your voice could make a wolverine purr.

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear8 ай бұрын

    🍿

  • @Bakedbeans24341
    @Bakedbeans243418 ай бұрын

    Oh no

  • @thevozhd9846
    @thevozhd98468 ай бұрын

    You need to make a video on the 2002 Godhra riots, the 2020 Delhi riots, and the ongoing riots in Manipur in India.

  • @multipletanksyndrome
    @multipletanksyndrome8 ай бұрын

    Would love to see a similar video about former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe Velez.

  • @brapbrapson944
    @brapbrapson9448 ай бұрын

    It’s surprising that there aren’t any Turkish nationalists in this chat yelling and screaming that Erdogan isn’t an aspiring autocrat

  • @hazzardalsohazzard2624

    @hazzardalsohazzard2624

    6 ай бұрын

    They're too busy drinking in German Bars to post tonight.

  • @aloysiusokon3334
    @aloysiusokon33347 ай бұрын

    "Imagine a 21st century Dictator" ... Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

  • @AnnaJaneMTG
    @AnnaJaneMTG8 ай бұрын

    Damn no mention of the most fun dictator to say aloud, Gurbanguly Burdimuhamedow

  • @Jameywells777
    @Jameywells7778 ай бұрын

    Always informative Simon.

  • @shaphylon
    @shaphylon8 ай бұрын

    Please could you take the Efrain Rios Montt and the genocide in Guatemala as a theme?

  • @chriscabal3345
    @chriscabal33458 ай бұрын

    Another great video

  • @danielbarrett1988
    @danielbarrett19888 ай бұрын

    Iran -Contra affair video required now on warographics!

  • @deadringer-cultofdeathratt8813
    @deadringer-cultofdeathratt88138 ай бұрын

    Everytime I turn around I find you with 2 more channels. You must speak for 12 hours a day.

  • @gypsydildopunks7083
    @gypsydildopunks70838 ай бұрын

    Volcano 2 will soon be filmed there.

  • @lovenothate
    @lovenothate8 ай бұрын

    My first thought was actually the dictator of Kajikistan...which you didn't list,b ut taht's ok :) Good video!

  • @Steve_G88
    @Steve_G888 ай бұрын

    How does Jenna fit into all of this?

  • @kevinfoster1138
    @kevinfoster11388 ай бұрын

    Nice I opened "Into The Shadows" right at 666 thumbs-up must be a sign.

  • @vinnydiaz6959
    @vinnydiaz69598 ай бұрын

    he’s playing tropico irl

  • @antonmeemana1261
    @antonmeemana12615 ай бұрын

    Ortega is a sick despot. He has forgotten his own past.

  • @BenZ-ui7tu
    @BenZ-ui7tu7 ай бұрын

    The picture you have for Violetta isn't correct. That's her daughter Christiana

  • @DarknessUnresolved
    @DarknessUnresolved8 ай бұрын

    Britain has NO room to talk!

  • @ThePkmage

    @ThePkmage

    3 ай бұрын

    why not? and here we go i do hope you quote things that happened lifetimes ago.

  • @lessthanavgplayer67
    @lessthanavgplayer677 ай бұрын

    My dad told me that last year ortega's son randomly came to his uncles clinic and just told him to sell it to him, the easy way or the hard way, he gave 20 seconds to think about it.

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.69328 ай бұрын

    16:00 Again, what kind of government is it when even congress is immune to orosexuton.

  • @quirkyMakes
    @quirkyMakes8 ай бұрын

    The Powers of Darkness gather strength once again...........

  • @wendychavez5348
    @wendychavez53487 ай бұрын

    I have a friend with the last name Ortega who resembles one of the people pictured at about 3:03. I don't think it's him or anyone related to him, because no one in that family resembles the Ortegas you're talking about here, it's just an amusing correlation.

  • @rafalganowicz1939
    @rafalganowicz19398 ай бұрын

    Sure sounds a lot like what Stalin did. Hitler was not the only fanatical dictator during that time.

  • @TurquoiseInk
    @TurquoiseInk8 ай бұрын

    My mother worked in Nicaragua during the Somoza regime and got out just before the fall of that dictator. They went from a Fascist dictator to a Communist dictator. Why Americans are investing and retiring there is insane to me.

  • @nosonoliento

    @nosonoliento

    8 ай бұрын

    Since about 2015 the USA has gotten weird. My wife (native Spanish speaker) and I are looking at other countries south of the US to retire to and Nicaragua is not on the list no way.

  • @nbarnes6225
    @nbarnes62258 ай бұрын

    First time I've ever heard Nicaragua pronounced that way before. 😅

  • @Valthoran90

    @Valthoran90

    8 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I don't really like it.

  • @giloro85

    @giloro85

    8 ай бұрын

    ​​@@Valthoran90it's the correct way. As a Nicaraguan myself, may I remind you it was a British colony as much as it was a Spanish and a Dutch colony. Extremely educated Nicaraguans will use British pronunciation (RP).

  • @wave1090

    @wave1090

    8 ай бұрын

    @giloro85 the fuck you on about? 1.) When was Nicaragua a Dutch colony? 2.) The name comes from Nahua, not Spanish. The Spanish pronunciation is the more accurate one. The British did not even use the name Nicaragua to refer to their colony. It was either the "Mosquito Coast", "Mosquitia" or the "Moskito Kingdom". 3.) Who the fuck pronounces Nicaragua differently within the country? I know plenty of highly educated very rich Nicaraguans and also a lot of poor ones that didn't get such privileges. We all say the name of the country the same way!

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588

    @robertortiz-wilson1588

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@giloro85interesting!

  • @henryvegter8773
    @henryvegter87738 ай бұрын

    Reagan was ahead of his time. Too bad the Contras lost.

  • @stephenharper6638

    @stephenharper6638

    7 ай бұрын

    He should have gone to jail over iran/contra and been impeached for agent orange coverup

  • @davidgibson3631
    @davidgibson36318 ай бұрын

    so you trade once somoza to become another somoza aka ortega

  • @thesuncollective1475
    @thesuncollective14758 ай бұрын

    I thought he was dead

  • @davidhiles2673
    @davidhiles26738 ай бұрын

    Is it “Nicaragüa” now?

  • @Liqoh
    @Liqoh4 ай бұрын

    14:01 Fledded? That’s not even a word 💀

  • @Pavlos_Charalambous
    @Pavlos_Charalambous8 ай бұрын

    The definition of die young or live long enough to become the villain 😏

  • @asbo891
    @asbo8918 ай бұрын

    A Marxist/Leninist leader turned out to be a horrific dictator...who could have seen that coming!

  • @Rudyelf1

    @Rudyelf1

    7 ай бұрын

    “But that isn’t real communism.” - some wet behind the ears college kid that grew up in the suburbs.

  • @soullowhill
    @soullowhill8 ай бұрын

    Isn't that what we're doing now word for word

  • @josesalazarlopez142
    @josesalazarlopez1428 ай бұрын

    And believe me his wife Rosario fits the whole witch profile

  • @bernardsebranek1963

    @bernardsebranek1963

    8 ай бұрын

    She actually is a witch. A few years back she held a convention in Managua for or all witches in Latin America.

  • @johnsimca7093
    @johnsimca70937 ай бұрын

    Remember the 500 pairs of sunglasses he acquired?

  • @christopherjustice6411
    @christopherjustice64116 ай бұрын

    Oh cool. So the villain from Far Cry 6 (NazBol Castro) is a real dude.

  • @TkKirklandReal
    @TkKirklandReal2 ай бұрын

    It's gonna take the police force turning against him

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott95468 ай бұрын

    What would Strummer say now ?

  • @videogamevalley7523
    @videogamevalley75238 ай бұрын

    damn this is wild. they need to get them out somehow

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj39178 ай бұрын

    9:11 !Dios Mio! 😂

  • @oler777
    @oler7778 ай бұрын

    0:47 is this AI generated because his face and why didn’t he throw the Molotov cocktail? He just lit it and enjoys his hand being on fire I don’t get this picture.

  • @eufieee

    @eufieee

    8 ай бұрын

    It's stock footage

  • @matthewhodgson7388
    @matthewhodgson73888 ай бұрын

    Well, if Simon gets assassinated, we know who did it

  • @iron_side5674
    @iron_side56748 ай бұрын

    And now i know why Probotector was called Probotector and not Contra anymore. This threw me WAY back, i knew the Game originally had another name, now i know why it got changed. Talk about Dark Roots.

  • @eadweard.

    @eadweard.

    8 ай бұрын

    Cannot tell what you are trying to say.

  • @iron_side5674

    @iron_side5674

    8 ай бұрын

    @@eadweard. Probotector is a Game for the Nintendo Entertainment system. Some 2 Player Jump and Run platform shooter, that game got renamed, it was originally called "Contra" Freedom Fighters basically, and then they turned everything into Robots to censor it. Oficially it was because of the Blood in the game, but the Contra Affair makes more sense as a reason. Since there is no sense in changing an entire games theme just because of some blood.

  • @cantsay2205
    @cantsay22058 ай бұрын

    You would think people would learn their lesson about electing people like that by now.

  • @kpounders7437

    @kpounders7437

    8 ай бұрын

    That is why history repeats; people DONT learn

  • @cantsay2205

    @cantsay2205

    8 ай бұрын

    @@kpounders7437 it's just hard to feel sorry for people who vote people like this in at this point. Like I'm sorry, but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different result.

  • @blackwatertv7018

    @blackwatertv7018

    8 ай бұрын

    Like what Tyrants?

  • @cantsay2205

    @cantsay2205

    8 ай бұрын

    @@blackwatertv7018 people like the dictator of Nicaragua. What did you think I meant?

  • @RebeccaOre

    @RebeccaOre

    8 ай бұрын

    Both sides were shooting. I could hear them on both ends of the town I live in. One friend lives in a block that had two sets of people firing at each other.

  • @jontaedouglas7244
    @jontaedouglas72448 ай бұрын

    El Salvador isn’t too far behind

  • @reecedrury4145
    @reecedrury41458 ай бұрын

    Want to hope the children would do the right thing. Extremely doubt it though

  • @eadweard.

    @eadweard.

    8 ай бұрын

    Cannot tell what you are trying to say.

  • @AngeliqueStP

    @AngeliqueStP

    8 ай бұрын

    @@eadweard. Are you going to keep spam-pasting this on every other comment?

  • @eadweard.

    @eadweard.

    8 ай бұрын

    @@AngeliqueStP Only on ones where I cannot tell what they are trying to say.

  • @berja3895
    @berja38958 ай бұрын

    Are they taking a page from China?!

  • @WarriorsCherub999
    @WarriorsCherub9998 ай бұрын

    As a resident of the district of columbia i remember the flood of drugs coming in from the iran/contra debacle. And oliver north goofy azz.

  • @williamhenszlein5032
    @williamhenszlein50322 ай бұрын

    Those idiots, the people of Nicaragua, voted him back into office, let them reap what they sowed.