On June 29, Tortilla con Sal interviewed Dr. Paul Oquist, Minister-Private Secretary for National Policies of the Presidency of Nicaragua, about his new book Equilibra, which focuses on the various dangers threatening life on Earth. NicaNotes highly recommends that you read the entire interview which was posted on July 10th at http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/9684. We have abstracted…
The 41st anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution was celebrated in Nicaragua in a mainly virtual fashion with broadcasts on television, Facebook, and YouTube in the days running up to the holiday. Film strips from the 1979 insurrection, greetings from foreign dignitaries and solidarity groups along with instructions on fighting the corona virus could be viewed…
The book is edited by Nan McCurdy and written by a collective of historians, researchers and activists committed to finding and sharing the truth about US intervention in Nicaragua. 2019 was an amazing year in the search for peace in Nicaragua with The Amnesty Law and promotion of reconciliation between neighbors in every corner of…
July 5th 2020 By Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal Ever since January 2007, the Western human rights industry has attacked Nicaragua’s Sandinista government for being undemocratic and repressive. For over a decade, Nicaragua’s social and economic development and successive democratic elections repeatedly contradicted that mendacious narrative. Frustrated by Nicaragua’s embarrassing example of undeniable, sovereign, socialist-inspired social…
By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub (Washington), Erika Takeo (Managua), and Avery Raimondo (Los Angeles) (A longer version of this article was published by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on June 22, 2020: https://www.coha.org/feeding-the-people-in-times-of-pandemic-the-food-sovereignty-approach-in-nicaragua/) “A nation that cannot feed itself is not free.” Fausto Torrez, Nicaraguan Rural Workers Association An array of UN agencies is predicting a…
June 24, 2020 By Tom Ricker (This article was originally published by the Quixote Center on June 19, 2020, at https://www.quixote.org/keeping-count-in-nicaragua-during-covid-19/) At the moment, there is a debate about numbers. Official statistics concerning COVID-19 in Nicaragua are 1,823 confirmed cases, with 64 deaths. Based on official statistics, this is the lowest number of confirmed cases…
By Nan McCurdy (An earlier version of this article was published in Popular Resistance https://popularresistance.org/us-led-nicaraguan-opposition-inflates-covid19-death-lists/) The US is still trying to overthrow the democratically elected president of Nicaragua who won with 72% of the vote – this time it is a Covid-19 related coup attempt. The US-led opposition is utilizing doctors instead of students to…
Remarks by Sofía M. Clark This is a talk given at the memorial ceremony held at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-Managua (UNAN), 8 June 2020. Sofia M. Clark, Master of International Law, was Deputy Chief of Staff for Fr. Miguel d’Escoto during the 63rd session of the UNGA, and currently at the Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann…
On May Day, Friends of the ATC (Rural Workers Association) released a series of testimonies from the ATC Estelí federation, which has a large presence in the tobacco/cigar making industry but also organizes peasant farmers in rural areas near the city of Estelí. This is the second publication in a four-part series of testimonies from…
By Nan McCurdy Nicaragua had its first case of Covid-19 March 18, and up until May 11 had only 25 confirmed cases. The Health Ministry, incredibly, was able to push off community contagion for nearly two months, in part, by careful contact tracing and close monitoring of all Covid-positive contacts. Only recently have a few…
