On a recent episode of my Moderate Rebels podcast with Ben Norton, I asked Nils McCune about the role of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista – MRS) party in marketing the recent coup in Nicaragua as a progressive popular mobilization. McCune, a longtime resident of the Nicaraguan city of Tipitapa, has worked
Max Blumenthal: Nicaragua’s ‘Left-Wing’ Opposition MRS Lobbies the West for Regime Change
The Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista – MRS) is the intellectual, left-sounding arm of reactionary politics in Nicaragua. Its popular base is minuscule, but it has been adept at courting Western support.
Por Max Blumenthal
![Supporters of the Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS, protest against the Supreme Electoral Council's decision to invalidate the MRS as a political party in Managua, June 20, 2008. The Supreme Electoral Council said the MRS, which broke away from the ruling Sandinista Front in the 1990s, had failed to meet a deadline for naming party representatives in all of the country's electoral districts. Esteban Felix | AP](https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AP_080620029027-1148x648.jpg)