Manuel Guillén's cartoons 2021

[Jonh]

[Jonh]

This is al a macabre joke of that witch, right, Papi?

Proudly son of the police
Proudly son of Ortega Murillo

[bill_bly_ca]

I had seen that back bit in passing but yet to read it - A significant number of back packs apparently

[Jonh]

Ortega Murillo Dictatorship
Pardons, penitentiary system

Repeat offenders

[Jonh]

How will Biden's policy be toward this hateful dictatorship?

Multilateral cooperation

I don't like to be the "bad cop"... I believe in multilateral pressure

[Jonh]

The devil pays badly to those who serve him well.

Arnoldism

[Jonh]

"Angles" and the demon

I am the "pure opposition" of the right that can't be tempted by any leftist demon...

[Jonh]

Citizen Alliance

The vehicle has arrived that will take you down the highway of change...!

Venezuelation of Nicaragua

[Jonh]

We are "the good will commission" for the opposition. The last chance...

As you may have noticed, we are running out of time!

[Jonh]

Reform of the consumer law

The commander wants to make a clarification: we're no longer sanctioned by the empire. (money laundering)

And besides, we will continue to be respectable clients of your filthy bank (corruption)

Private bank

[Jonh]

United States advertises to its citizens not to travel to Nicaragua

Nicaragua, so original!!
Here Covid 19 doesn't take vaccinations
This is the paradise of corrupt ones, delinquents, launderers, and criminals

[Jonh]

Move aside, mosquito!
Ortega's hog farm

Dynamite to the financial system

That has nothing to see with the consumers

[bill_bly_ca]

Interesting rabit hole over lunch

the FAFT was formed in 2000

It currently has 2 black listed nations (NKorea and Iran)

There are about 12 on the grey list including Niclandia and suprizingly Panama which I would have not guessed.

There are almost 40 some criterion which are ranked 2x a ear in ....

FC - Fully compliant
LC - Largly Compliant
PC - Partially compliant
NC - Non compliant

Nicaragua was on the grey list up to 2012 - Got off it , then in 2017 or there abouts (not completely clear from their web site) fell back to grey between 2017 and 2019

It did state in some of the papers it was moving off the list by actions in 2019 and 2020 but had one fall out this past month (Point #15 moving from PC to NC) - There is a big table showing the 40ish catagories and the segments with movement the text is in blue indicating the letters that changed.

This is the gobiltyl gook on their summary page.

In February 2020, Nicaragua made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and GAFILAT to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime. Since the completion of its MER in July 2017, Nicaragua has made progress on a number of its MER recommended actions to improve technical compliance and effectiveness, including by increasing the use of financial information in the investigation and prosecution of ML offenses and fixing its legal framework for criminalizing TF. Nicaragua will work to implement its action plan, including by: (1) developing a more comprehensive understanding of its ML/TF risk; (2) more proactively seeking international cooperation to support ML investigation, especially with the aim of identifying and tracing assets with confiscation and repatriation purposes; (3) conducting effective risk based supervision; (4) taking appropriate measures to prevent legal persons and arrangements from being misused for criminal purposes, and ensure that accurate and up to date basic and beneficial ownership information is available on a timely basis.

More can be found here... https://www.fatf-gafi.org/

[Jonh]

Constitutional guarantees? Your only guarantee is that you'll spend 90 days here while I invent you a case.

Dictatorship judges

Political prisoners

[KeyWestPirate]

I need a rice bowl like that. Chickens and pigs aren't doing it.
I'm going all in on coffee next year.
Big investment,, someone has to be here 100% of the time.
What I wanted to do initially, glad I didn't , would have just lost my money.
I talked to a neighbor on Saturday, she managed 56 quintales from about 6 Mz
Her cuidador family is really upset that she is not going to plant corn or beans anymore,,
Much harder to steal the coffee.


Fatty Gaffy
The name doesn't do much,, they need some PR work on that.
Maybe tie it into Global Warming in some fashion, or Save The Whales Through Prevention of Money Laundering
Whales have been on the back burner recently.



Could I work online from my farm ?

[bill_bly_ca]

Nica twist on 90 day Finance??

[Jonh]

"Delayed" discovery

Dictatorship!

Blinken State Department

[Jonh]

The bankers before "the law of corrupt sanctions"
Financial sector

The bankers with said law, en their new function
Will wash someone else

[bill_bly_ca]

Typed with a couple expats I know on da faze book last light

Some think it will end up in complete financial isolation of Nicaraguan with an armored car or two having to go get cash from Honduras and Costa Rica every day as the international transfers stop to others who think nothing will happen.

What I see is the big boys won't put their entire LA banking network in jeopardy for the relativity small potatoes of Niclandia. BDF and LAFISE will pack up and shutter or sell? - IIUC BANPRO is somehow government affiliated as all civil service paychecks clear through them.

The banking system was nationalised in 1979, time for history to repeat?

[cookshow]

They had to take everything into consideration, no telling how the web is actually spun.

My understanding of the sanctions means the banks will themselves be sanctioned in regards to any future biz with US by having dealing with sanctioned parties, guessing would be same with other sanctioning Countries.

[bill_bly_ca]

They had to take everything into consideration, no telling how the web is actually spun.

My understanding of the sanctions means the banks will themselves be sanctioned in regards to any future biz with US by having dealing with sanctioned parties, guessing would be same with other sanctioning Countries.

That is a very consistent narrative.

I assume it will take a month to or two to go through the as -

--Sanctioned party needs to open an account.

--Sanctioned party needs to make some sort of international Transaction

--Transaction is flagged

--State Department (US) contacts financial institution to verify and make it know that they (the institution) are under threat of action

--Financial institution takes action.

Each one of these points can fork in interesting ways..

Dollar to a doughnut, says the banks will snitch first and help the US capture the funds and get a get out of jail card for doing so..

Where is the pop corn machine?

[bill_bly_ca]

Watching Accion 10 new cast from last night. today. I am gob smacked that they are still on the air - They are telling the facts, but mostly with out spin - Maybe that is their saving grace.

[KeyWestPirate]

All the tobacco money in the north goes through Banpro too.

Thank God!!! They don't use BAC
You should see the lines at the BanPro ATM in Condega.
Literally down the street.

BanPro "branches" are popping up at pulperias.
They curiously don't take debit or credit cards for purchases, but they will give you cash on your card is they have it ,,
---- for a price.

I don't see any of the tabac people using their debit cards to make a purchase at PALI, I may just not be seeing it.
The Pali in Condega is the worst one I have ever been in, impossibly crowded, poorly lit.
But, it's the only Pali in Condega, and it's where the ATM's are.
It's hard to get into the store because of the crowding around the ATM's.

We elbow our way through the line which passes in front of the BAC ATM,, no line there, sometimes with the help of the security guard. NO ONE wants to give up their place in line, because,, they KNOW,, the ATM is going to run out of cash.
It's just a matter of who and when. We're in and out of the BAC ATM twice, cords and dollars, while the girl to the right of me is trying to decide which button to push next.

Quintsential White Privilege (I mis-spelled quintessential on purpose - I'm feeling ornery. Javier hands me my chainsaw this morning as I'm doing this post, with the chain hanging off the bar,,

"It doesn't work. Krisnia loaned it to Bismark." )

Not only does it not work, it's completely out of gas and bar oil, and it's filthy. I've got four guys standing around,, making a new fence to keep the horses away from the pigs, and it seems nothing can progress until I fix the chain saw. They are using my bars, my shovels, my posts, my aceite negro, my barbed wire and my grapas and my hammer. Hammers are another thing hard to keep around. I buy them at harbor freight when they go on special for less than $3, good hammers.


It generally takes two people fifteen minutes to do a withdrawal of the < than $100 they made over the last two weeks,, and then they stand in front of the ATM and count their money three times before ceding the space.
They don't understand that the ATM doesn't dispense centavos, and there is no way they are going to get their last few cordobas out.

But, they keep trying. Do I care ?
Not unless the tobacco companies start using BAC.

I shouldn't smile, and I should care:
you work your ass off for peanuts in the hot sun and then stand in line for two hours to get your pay.

All's well that ends well:
I get the chain saw running, some guy in Greece named Dionisis gave me $500 for thirty minutes work.
Some Russian guy named Andrey is on the fence (thank God for Google Translate),,

The sun is shining, it rained last night, the corn is recovering the top few inches some guy's pig chewed off.
I let my boar cover his sow, it was Javier's brother's sow,, and she wiggled through the fence trying to get away from him.

They finally came to a (very noisy) understanding
, but not before she found my corn field.
The boar IS huge, but Gaylord is really amable. Violeta had chased the sow the day before and gave her a nasty bite on her nose. We separated them, treated the wound, gave them a time-out for the night and penned Violeta.

But, it's early in the day.
I know that some other mini- disaster awaits me.

[Jonh]

A run on the banks? I saw that movie before.

The part not often told is when FDR and his administration enacted a retroactive tax increase, no one had tax withholding back then. When your taxes were due, you pay them. Making a tax increase retroactive caused people to rush to the banks to get out extra money if they had it, just to pay the extra taxes, and that's what strained the system.

[KeyWestPirate]

A run on the banks? I saw that movie before.

The part not often told is when FDR and his administration enacted a retroactive tax increase, no one had tax withholding back then. When your taxes were due, you pay them. Making a tax increase retroactive caused people to rush to the banks to get out extra money if they had it, just to pay the extra taxes, and that's what strained the system.

Of course back then,, taxes were affordable.
And there was some incentive to save. People felt a strong sense of personal responsibility.

Most people back then could not imagine the economy that exists today:

Food stamps, the dole, untaxed drug sales.
But if we went to something simpler like Howard Cain suggested, half (or more) of the IRS would be out of work.

I like to think that we are striving for a more perfect union, but I think that my reality show Sister Wives of Nicaragua would have been a big success too.