This week I want to draw your attention to a report on the delegation I led in February to Honduras and Nicaragua. The delegation compared and contrasted the two counties in the areas of rural development, citizen security, and women’s empowerment. In Nicaragua we were hosted by the ATC farmworkers union. You can read or download the 27-page…
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Nicanotes: A Very Strange Nomination from an Irish Human Rights Group
The Irish human rights organization, Front Line Defenders, has named Nicaraguan indigenous anti-canal activist Francisca Ramirez Torres as one of its five finalists for the 2017 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. She joins four other finalists from Ukraine, Vietnam, South Africa and Kuwait as a finalist for the award from…
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This blogger could not think of anything to write about this week, but I do want to offer up the following brief summaries of news from Nicaragua that I think is important or at least interesting to international solidarity activists. BRIEFS Informe Pastran pointed out that the omnibus spending bill passed by the US Congress to…
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Nicanotes: Danger of NICA Act Passing Increases with Introduction in the Senate
I want to revisit the issue of the NICA Act this week because I may have been too complacent in dismissing it since it is so irrational. As we in the United States are going through a period of greater than normal irrationality, it behooves us to prepare not just for rational events, but for irrational ones as well. Likely…
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NicaNotes: Guest Posts: The US Accuses Nicaragua of “Institutional Corruption” But its Own Report Doesn’t Support its Claim
This week’s guest blog is by a correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous due to their job in Nicaragua. On March 27, 2017, the headline in La Prensa, one of the major newspapers in Nicaragua, read, “The United States urges Nicaragua to address ‘institutional corruption’ A report on drug trafficking released this month by the US State Department…
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Benjamin Linder, Presente!
April 28 marks the 30th anniversary of the murder of solidarity activist Benjamin Linder by the US-funded Contras. Ben was shot at short range along with his two Nicaraguan co-workers who were surveying to construct a small hydroelectric system to bring electricity to the village of San Jose de Bocay. Ben was the only US citizen who was killed…
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Right-wing Congressmembers Reintroduce the NICA Act in the House; Please Act!
Act Now! On April 5, 2017 right-wing members of Congress led by Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, reintroduced an even worse version of the NICA Act (Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act) than the one they introduced last September during both countries’ presidential election season. If the NICA Act were to pass both chambers of the US Congress…
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Nicanotes: Guest Post: Babar the Elephant in Sign Language
Guest Post By John Perry John Perry has been involved in solidarity work with Nicaragua since the 1980s. For the last 13 years he’s lived and worked in Masaya, where he also looks after the link between Masaya and the UK city of Leicester. Raise four fingers (the sign for “B”), touch your nose with your thumb…
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NicaNotes: GUEST BLOG: Murals: A Powerful Cultural Manifestion
This Week’s Guest Post is brought to us by John Kotula. John is an artist and writer from Peace Dale, Rhode Island who lives and works in Managua, Nicaragua. He will be contributing more posts on culture and politics to NicaNotes in the near future. John hopes to organize trips for US artists to visit…