By Louise Richards (This article was published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (UK) on May 17 on their web page: https://www.nscag.org/resources/NSCAG%20Electoral%20Reform%20Briefing.pdf ) With approval ratings for the government of Daniel Ortega and the FSLN consistently high, it is looking increasingly likely that they will be re-elected in November 2021. A national M&R Consultores…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua and Central American migration
By Stephen Sefton The current migration crisis of people from Central America traveling across Mexico to reach the United States has received widespread international coverage. Some reports and articles rightly point to the origins of the crisis in destructive US foreign policy intervention over many decades in Central America. But even many of those articles…
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NicaNote: Stop the RENACER Act! Further Action is still necessary!
Thank you for actions you have already taken to call and write your Congresspersons. This is important because the RENACER Act (new sanctions on Nicaragua) is now being discussed in both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It is relatively unusual to have a bill considered at the same time…
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NicaNotes: IF WE’RE AT WAR, WE’RE LOSING: How Nicaragua Thrives Despite Illegal U.S. Intervention
Text and Photos by Madeline McClure In March, 2021, I traveled to Nicaragua as a delegate with the Sanctions Kill! Coalition delegation to witness the impact of the “coercive measures” the U.S. uses to impose its political and economic interests, rationalized by its allegations of repression and political crisis. Yet rather than find a people…
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NicaNotes: With Nicaragua, Scary COVID Projections Are More Newsworthy Than Hopeful Results
By John Perry (John Perry is a writer from the United Kingdom who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua.) One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the…
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NicaNotes: Farewell Letters to Friends of Nicaragua
Two great friends of Nicaragua have died during the past week. Paul Oquist was born in the US, became a Nicaraguan citizen, and served the Nicaraguan people and their revolution for decades, He was known internationally as a voice crying in the wilderness to save the planet and its environment. Ramsey Clark, a former US…
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NicaNotes: Book Review: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite U.S. Unconventional Warfare
We are happy to have this book review by Roger Stoll of the collective effort, The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare, published in July 2020. Today we are fundraising to be able to print 1,000 books in Spanish (about $US6,000) to get books in the hands of Nicaraguans at a…
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NicaNotes: Violence against Women: Lessons from Nicaragua
By Louise Richards Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Committee. [This article was published by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Committee (NSCAG) on March 24, 2021, at https://www.nscag.org/news/article/337/violence-against-women-lessons-from-nicaragua) “In truth, the violence which we must eradicate in all its forms is violence against women – it destroys us, diminishes us, denigrates us, humiliates us all, not just…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua rebuffs attacks at human rights hearing
By John Perry Nicaragua was one of the first countries in Latin America to give constitutional rights to its Indigenous peoples and its laws to protect their territories are justly famous (especially the Autonomy Law of 1986 and the Demarcation Law of 2003). Some 40,000 Indigenous families live in areas that are legally owned and…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples: Neocolonial ties, autonomous reality
Conversations with Indigenous leaders, and people at the grass roots in Nicaragua’s Northern Caribbean Autonomous Region March 2021 Introduction By Stephen Sefton [The interviews in their entirety can be read at: https://afgj.org/download/nicaraguas-Indigenous-peoples-neocolonial-lies-autonomous-reality ] Between November 11 and 16, 2020, between the passing of Hurricane Eta and the arrival of Hurricane Iota, the Tortilla con Sal…