By Rick Kohn [Rick Kohn is a professor of Animal Science at the University of Maryland. His interests include evaluating and implementing methods to decrease adverse environmental effects from animal agriculture including effects on air and water resources and climate change. Rick worked in Nicaragua in 1987-1988 as an internationalist with the Union of Farmers…
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NicaNotes: Unity Through Sports: Nicaragua Participates in ALBA Games
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, and organizes study trips to Nicaragua through the Casa Ben Linder in Managua. If you are interested, contact her at <[email protected]>. She lives with her family in Ciudad Sandino.) For the past five years, I have told foreigners visiting Nicaragua: “Don’t…
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NicaNotes: Five Years Ago in Nicaragua: A Coup Attempt Begins
By Dan Kovalik and John Perry [This article was first published in Monthly Review Online on April 12, 2023, and then in Counterpunch on April 14.] (Daniel Kovalik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. John Perry is a COHA…
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NicaNotes: A Timeline of Events in Nicaragua, April-July 2018
Produced by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition The 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua has been in the mainstream media lately but the coverage has been completely one-sided and does not reflect the horrors inflicted on the population by the coup mongers with money and training from the US. April 18 was the fifth anniversary of the…
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NicaNotes: Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
By Sara Flounders [Sara Flounders is an organizer and the author of ten books. She is a Contributing Editor of Workers World Newspaper, Co-Director of International Action Center, helps coordinate the UNAC – United National Antiwar Coalition and the SanctionsKill Campaign. She is Editor and a co-author of the book SANCTIONS – A Wrecking Ball…
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NicaNotes: The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua
By John Perry (John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and elsewhere.) [This article was first published in Covert Action Magazine.] A biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting the Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard…
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NicaNotes: Gracias a Dios: The People’s Church in Nicaragua
By Becca Renk [This article was first published by LAProgressive on March 4, 2023.] (Becca Renk has worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, and organizes study trips to Nicaragua through the Casa Ben Linder in Managua. She lives with her family in Ciudad Sandino.) “We are not typical Catholics,” explains Yamil Ríos of…
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NicaNotes ACTION ALERT: UN Human Rights Report on Nicaragua is Fatally Flawed and Should be Withdrawn
This week’s NicaNotes features an action alert from Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, in response to an extremely negative report (summary is here) released on March 2 by the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN). We see this report as not only biased, but replete with false statements. We are asking for organizational and individual…
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NicaNotes: Reconciliation Does Not Mean Forgetting in Nicaragua
By Jill Clark-Gollub (Jill Clark-Gollub organizes study delegations to Nicaragua and has published in outlets including COHA, Popular Resistance, and Alliance for Global Justice.) [This article was first published in Counterpunch on March 3, 2023.] Hybrid warfare tactics, including information warfare and the co-opting of human rights groups, make it hard to tell the good…
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NicaNotes: “We’re Not Fighting for Space Anymore:” Women in Power in Nicaragua
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk is originally from the U.S. but has lived and worked in Nicaragua since 2001 with the Jubilee House Community and its project the Center for Development in Central America.) “Women are not fighting for space anymore,” declares Nicaraguan National Assembly Deputy Flor Avellán. “Now we have that space and we…