Speaker Change for Sunday Webinar The Nicaragua Network and AFGJ had reported that the speaker for the Sunday Feb. 20 Webinar (3pm ET) would be Laureano Ortega. Mr. Ortega cannot be with us and in his place we are honored to have Finance Minister Ivan Acosta. Iván Adolfo Acosta Montalván has been Minister of Finance…
By William Grigsby Vado [Transcribed and translated by Miguel Mairena and Nan McCurdy from “Sin Fronteras, Feb. 4, 2022, minute 7 to 27 and a short selection from Feb. 9] (William Grigsby is a Nicaraguan journalist, analyst and historian.) Let us begin with the decision taken by the National Assembly at the request of the…
By Nan McCurdy [This article is an updated version of a webinar presentation given December 18 hosted by Task Force on the Americas, Ecumenical Peace Institute, and Mt Diablo Peace & Justice Center.] In 2021 Nicaragua made great leaps in improving lives and recuperating essential rights! Defending Sovereignty In my opinion the most important advance…
By Becca Mohally Renk (Becca Mohally Renk has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001 with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America.) This week the new school year started in Nicaragua and I waved my eldest daughter, Eibhlín, off to her final year…
Nicaragua: Sovereign State or Vassal State? [This article was originally printed in the Black Agenda Report at https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/nicaragua-multipolar-world] By Margaret Kimberley (Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. Her work can also be found at patreon.com/margaretkimberley and on Twitter @freedomrideblog. Ms. Kimberley can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.) The United States and…
By Dan Kovalik (Daniel Kovalik teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and is author of the recently-released No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests. Along with Margaret Kimberley, Lucille Murphey and S. Brian Willson, Kovalik was invited to be on…
Dear Friends of NicaNotes: I continue to be deeply saddened by the loss of Chuck Kaufman. I knew he had health problems, but still, he seemed like someone who would, or should, be with us forever. I’ve known Chuck since a visit to the Nicaragua Network office in DC – way back, maybe 87 or…
December 29, 2021 It is with great sadness that the Alliance for Global Justice announces that Chuck Kaufman, our National Co-Coordinator and one of the founders of AfGJ, has died. He passed peacefully of natural causes on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 in his Tucson, Arizona home after a brief illness. Chuck was a true leader, a visionary, a…
An interview by Jorge Capelán (This interview was originally published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign in London: https://nicaraguasc.org.uk/2021/11/from-building-roads-to-learning-the-ancient-techniques-of-bamboo-handicraft/) [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.] Construction worker Mauricio Antonio Núñez lost…
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…
