By Winnie Narváez Herrera [Winnie Narváez has a master’s degree in sustainable development and is studying for a doctorate in popular education at the UNAN in Estelí. She works with ÁBACOenRed / FUPEGC which is an initiative of educators who have been working with the Ministry of Education since the 1980s in teacher training.] The…
By Jemima Pierre (Jemima Pierre is an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report, the Haiti/Americas Team Co-Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace, and a Black Studies and anthropology professor at UCLA.) [This article was first published on April 27, 2022 in Black Agenda Report] In the wake of the expulsion of the Organization…
By Fabrizio Casari (Fabrizio Casari is an Italian Journalist who has made multiple trips to Nicaragua since living there in the 1980s.) Nicaragua ceased to be a member of the Organization of American States (OAS) with an announcement on November 21, 2021. And on April 24, in a firm communiqué, Managua announced that to implement…
By Erika Takeo and Rohan Rice [This article was first published by the People’s Dispatch on November 04, 2021, at https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/11/04/womens-struggle-in-nicaragua-from-liberation-fighters-to-building-an-alternative-society/ ] [Erika Takeo is a member of the International Relations Secretariat of the Rural Workers Association (ATC) and Coordinator of the Friends of the ATC. Rohan Rice is a writer, photographer, and translator from…
NicaNotes, like most of Nicaragua, will take a vacation for Semana Santa (Holy Week). We’ll be back on April 21st. By Erika Takeo and Rohan Rice [This article was first published by the People’s Dispatch on November 04, 2021, at https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/11/04/womens-struggle-in-nicaragua-from-liberation-fighters-to-building-an-alternative-society/ ] Erika Takeo is a member of the International Relations Secretariat of the Rural…
By Becca Mohally Renk Becca lives with her husband Paul and their two children in Ciudad Sandino, and since 2001 has worked with the Jubilee House Community and its project the Center for Development in Central America. When we arrive at her home near the cemetery in Nicaragua’s northern city of Matagalpa, 91 year-old Dorothy…
By Ben Gutman [This article was first published on January 20, 2022, by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) at https://www.coha.org/nicaragua-a-renewed-partnership-with-china-defangs-us-regime-change-tactics/] (Ben Gutman is an independent writer, researcher, and organizer. He is currently working on the outsourcing of US border militarization to Guatemala in collaboration with the Guatemala Solidarity Project and the Promoters of Migrant…
By MB Grimes (Grimes is a 2021 Friends of the ATC intern and delegation participant.) [Like many of you reading this, we know that participating in delegations to Nicaragua changes lives. The Friends of the ATC solidarity network in the past 5 years has hosted 10 delegations with a focus on incorporating young people into…
Please join us for a webinar in English and Spanish: Nicaragua’s Advances in Labor Relations; Sunday, March 13: 3pm ET, 1pm Nicaragua, and please spread the word, thanks! Read More Here Nicaragua vs. Costa Rica on Elections and Government By Fiorella Isabel [Fiorella Isabel is an independent journalist on Substack, and host of the news…
By Stansfield Smith [Stan Smith was on delegations to Nicaragua in February 2020 and October 2021. He is editor of the Alliance for Global Justice’s “Venezuela & ALBA Weekly News” and https://chicagoalbasolidarity.org/.] Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of…
