By Lauren Smith (Lauren Smith is Covert Action Magazine’s correspondent on location and serves on the editorial board of CAM. Her work has been widely published in other outlets as well.) Despite Washington’s best effort to derail Nicaragua’s electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory by the Sandinista National…
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NicaNotes: “We’re not going to mass.” – How the Nicaraguan People Are Punishing Their Coup-Mongering Priests
By Becca Mohally Renk (Becca Renk is part of the Jubilee House Community and its project in Ciudad Sandino, the Center for Development in Central America and has lived in Nicaragua since 2001.) “I’m Catholic. I still pray in my house every day. I just don’t go to mass anymore.” We’re sitting in a swept…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s Election Was Free and Fair
By Richard Kohn, Ph.D. (Rick Kohn is a Professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland. He has worked on extension and research projects in the US, Nigeria, and Nicaragua. He covered the Nov. 7 general election in Nicaragua.) CNN and other mainstream media have been promoting a conspiracy…
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NicaNotes: Benefits for Workers in Nicaragua’s Free Trade Zones: An Interview with Pedro Ortega
By Jorge Capelan [Jorge Capelán is a Latin American journalist and political analyst who has worked for many years in Nicaragua. He appears weekly on news analysis programs and writes for several online news outlets.] Free Trade Zones (FTZs) play a very important role in Nicaragua’s struggle against poverty. As distinct from most countries in the…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
NicaNotes: Climate Change and Nicaragua: Who Will Pay for the Damage?
By Rick Kohn [This article was originally published in LA Progressive on Oct. 27, 2021, as the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow was about to begin. The talks, which ended on Nov. 12, were generally agreed to have fallen short of expectations.] (Rick Kohn is a Professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural…
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NicaNotes: What We Saw Is Not What the Corporate Media Tells the Public!
By Margaret Kimberley (Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report. She was an election companion with the Black Alliance for Peace delegation.) Remarks at Electoral Accompaniment Press Conference Managua, Nicaragua November 9, 2021 [You can view the entire press conference here: https://youtu.be/d513SW8NOtk] My name is Margaret Kimberley and I am a member of…
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NicaNotes: United States Trying to Sabotage Nicaragua’s Elections Yet Again
But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote For, with Sandinista Revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega Poised to Return to Power (This article was originally published in Covert Action Magazine on Nov. 3, 2021.) By Nan McCurdy (Nan McCurdy is the editor of NicaNotes. Now working in Mexico, she lived over 30…
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NicaNotes: Letter to UNHRC about Political Exploitation of Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua
This letter, signed by solidarity, human rights, religious, labor and other organizations, has been sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It denounces the misrepresentation and exploitation of disputes over land in Nicaragua’s autonomous Indigenous territories for political purposes by local and international organizations which claim to represent…
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NicaNotes: Facebook Provoked Violence in Nicaragua, Too!
By John Perry [John Perry is based in Nicaragua and writes on Central America for The Nation, The London Review of Books, OpenDemocracy, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Counterpunch and other outlets.] Frances Haugen’s cutting accusations against her former employers, Facebook, on October 5 included references to how social media are used to provoke and…
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NicaNotes: Vaccine Solidarity vs. Vaccine Diplomacy
By Becca Mohally Renk [Becca Mohally Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for 20 years, working with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America.] This week the Nicaraguan government announced that starting on October 20th it will be vaccinating children aged two to 17 with COVID-19 vaccines…