By Tanya Nuñez, William Camacaro, and James Jordan We’re reaching out to you with urgent news regarding the political landscape in Colombia. The elected government of President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez, whose rise to power marked a historic moment in Colombian politics, is facing imminent threats from the Colombian oligarchy seeking to…
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Venezuela & ALBA News 1.26.2024: Venezuela Reports on US-Backed Terrorism; Organizational Sign-on to Support South Africa; Listing of Resolutions Opposed to US Cuba Policy
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition: Sign on to civil organization letter in Support of South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, with a growing membership across the Americas, Europe, and beyond, is pleased to sign on to the “Letter Calling on States to Support South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case Against Israel at the International Court…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: New House Resolution Would Annul the Monroe Doctrine!
By Katherine Hoyt Katherine Hoyt was National Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network and the Alliance for Global Justice for many years before her retirement. She is now on the board of the Alliance for Global Justice. On the 200th anniversary of its announcement to the US Congress by President James Monroe, Representative Nydia Velasquez (D-NY)…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: News Briefs
Food for School Meals Distributed; Housing Advances; Roads Repaired On Dec. 29, during her daily talk, Vice President Rosario Murillo reported that the “first distribution of food for the School Meal Program will begin on January 5” in advance of the start of the new school year on January 29th. Meals are served to 1.2…
Venezuela, Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter
Venezuela & ALBA News 12.22.2023: Victory for Venezuela – Alex Saab is free; President Maduro’s speech; How the Campaign to Free Alex Saab Succeeded
Roger Harris: How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded The saga of Alex Saab and his ultimate emancipation is similar to the campaign to free the Cuban 5. Like the Free the Cuban 5 campaign, the FreeAlexSaab campaign rested on four legs: the remarkable resoluteness of Alex Saab himself, the mobilization…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
Nicanotes: Nicaragua Supports Palestinian Struggle
The ties between the Sandinistas of Nicaragua and the Palestinians go back decades. In the late 1960s, numerous Sandinistas trained with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the Middle East. The Nicaraguan government has released several statements in support of the Palestinians since the start of the war in Gaza and, earlier this…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes – Nicaragua 2023: Social Advances
By Nan McCurdy and Katherine Hoyt Just in 2023 Nicaragua has made incredible social advances to improve the well-being of the population. We will only cover a few examples here. Once again, according to the annual World Economic Forum 2023 Gender Gap Index, Nicaragua has ranked in 7th place worldwide in gender equality, and first in all of…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: The Monroe Doctrine Weakens as Latin America Moves Forward: An Interview with Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister
(This interview was originally published in Spanish by El 19 Digital on December 2, 2023.) The Monroe Doctrine, issued by US President James Monroe on Dec. 2, 1823, stated that any interference in the Americas by a European power would be viewed as a hostile act by the United States. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: US sanctions hit Nicaragua’s social investment programs
By John Perry [This article was first published in The Morning Star on Nov. 7, 2023.] (John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and other outlets.) Which country spends nearly two-thirds of its budget on tackling poverty? When I met Nicaragua’s finance…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: Good Infrastructure Makes People’s Lives Better
By Nan McCurdy and Katherine Hoyt According to the international financial institutions, Nicaragua stands out because it completes projects in an efficient and timely manner. On Dec. 7, 2022, the President of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Dante Mossi, stated that “Nicaragua is the country [in Central America] with the best execution…