“We are seduced by the fact that the children eat and go to school.” –Orlando Nuñez Soto speaking about Cuba By Katherine Hoyt The phrase that has been going through my head for the last few weeks is something that Orlando Núñez Soto said a number of years ago with relation to Cuba: “We are…
By Chuck Kaufman The Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice and I have recently been called Orteguistas (Ortega supporters). We used to be called Danielistas before it became necessary to the narrative to demonize him completely by denying him the practice in some parts of Latin America of calling those you respect, like Fidel and Che,…
CORRECTING THE RECORD: WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN NICARAGUA? By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, Popular Resistance July 10, 2018 There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of CNN and Nicaragua’s oligarchic media to support the removal of…
[The following post is a revision and update of a blog I wrote Oct. 26, 2017 entitled “MRS: Should They Lose the Right to Use the Name of Sandino? The MRS is a prominent part of the opposition to President Ortega’s government and a primary source of information for the international press. Due to their…
Originally Printed on June 24, 2018 by Misión Verdad [Translated from the Spanish by the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice.] The demonstrations by the opposition in Nicaragua in recent months must be framed in the context of a region where armed and “para-criminal” violence at the hands of bands like Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle…
This guest blog was written by an internationalist living in Nicaragua who asked that their name not be used for fear of retaliation by violent factions of the opposition. The role of the police in Nicaragua’s current crisis is a key one. From the opposition standpoint, they are the source of most if not all…
Guest Blog By Tortillaconsal.com Tortilla con Sal is an independent news and information source funded by its writers and their supporters. We receive no financial support from any political organization. We are committed to producing information in solidarity with the global impoverished majority from an anti-imperialist point of view. On Nicaragua, we identify with the…
By Chuck Kaufman As the crisis in Nicaragua intensifies and the US and European corporate media, the human rights industrial complex, and voices traditionally hostile to Nicaraguan sovereignty grow ever more strident, I have become mystified at the reactions of some people who I used to think were of the Left, or at least were…
Guest Blog by Nan McCurdy Like most Nicaraguans and people like me who lived there for thirty years, I spend most of my time now reading, listening to and watching news and talking to our kids, siblings, nieces, nephews and friends about what is going on. By 1pm California time I had seen so many…
By John Kotula One aspect of the current situation in Nicaragua that hasn’t been discussed much is the evacuation of more than 160 Peace Corps volunteers. (Jesuit volunteers and Canadian volunteers have also been pulled out of the country.) Compared with the deaths of dozens of mostly young Nicaraguans, this exit of foreign service providers may seem relatively unimportant. However, it…
