It
might seem cavalier for an academically credentialed anthropologist
to assert political influence on the population he is supposed to be
studying; however, Goette-Luciak’s activities fit within a long
tradition.
by
Max Blumenthal
Part
1
The
Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC and NPR have assigned an
American anthropologist with no previous journalistic experience to
cover the crisis in Nicaragua. The novice reporter, named Carl David
Goette-Luciak, has published pieces littered with falsehoods that
reinforce the opposition’s narrative promoting regime change while
relying almost entirely on anti-Sandinista sources.
An
investigation for MintPress reveals that Goette-Luciak has forged
intimate ties to the opposition, and has essentially functioned as
its publicist under journalistic cover. Having claimed to work in the
past as an anthropologist and “human rights defender,”
Goette-Luciak operated side-by-side with activists from a U.S.-backed
opposition party known as the Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS.
As we
will see in this investigation, U.S. government-funded organizations
have supplied the MRS with millions of dollars worth of election
assistance, and continue to fund its activists by funding their NGO’s
and social media training.
Goette-Luciak
now lists himself as “director of investigations” for an obscure
outlet called Radio Ciudadana that was founded a month before the
chaos erupted last April. That outlet’s founder, Azucena “Chena”
Castillo, is an outspoken member of the MRS party who has devoted
herself to the government’s overthrow. Goette-Luciak’s
social-media profile reveals intimate ties to numerous MRS leaders
and, in a recently deleted podcast interview, he has described his
own work to encourage indigenous opposition to the Sandinista front.
Media
outlets like the Guardian, NPR and The Washington Post feign
objectivity before their readers, presenting themselves as arbiters
of truth in an era of fake news. However, in countries where
Washington is pushing regime change, these same outlets have
dispatched a corps of writers to embed with U.S.-backed opposition
elements, provide them with publicity, and sell their goals back to
the American public.
Goette-Luciak
is one of clearest embodiments of the disturbing trend.
Source,
links:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-an-american-anthropologist-tied-to-us-regime-change-proxies-became-the-msms-man-in-nicaragua/249868/
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