By Louise Richards (Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group-UK) [This article was originally published by NSCAG on January 20, 2021. https://www.nscag.org/news/article/329/nicaragua-update] Introduction 2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. There are strong indications that President Daniel Ortega and the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) might again be re-elected with a…
By Esteban Velez [This article was originally published in eJuggle on Dec. 17, 2020. Copyright International Jugglers’ Association, Inc. Reprinted with permission.] Days after the assassination of juggler and engineer Benjamin Linder by soldiers from Los Contra (you can read my article about him here), more artists arrived in Nicaragua. It was the Jugglers For Peace group.…
By Fabrizio Casari [This article was previously published in Spanish by Radio La Primerisima and in English by Tortilla con Sal on Jan. 9, 2021.] Trump, as he leaves the scene, has decreed new sanctions against Nicaragua. Totally in line with his profile, it must be said: illegitimate, in open violation of international law, and…
By Nan McCurdy During the neoliberal governments from 1990 to 2007, the Nicaraguan population suffered lack of electricity an average of five to twelve hours a day. Electricity was needed to pump water so Nicaraguans had even more hours without the precious liquid. In my Managua neighborhood, Ciudad Jardin, we prepared for the outages with…
By John Perry (This article was published on Dec. 4, 2020, by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: https://fair.org/home/progressive-media-promoted-a-false-story-of-conflict-beef-from-nicaragua/) In reports by Reveal (10/21/20) and PBS NewsHour (10/20/21) there were calls for a boycott of “conflict beef” from Nicaragua. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal claims to be “fair and comprehensive” and PBS to be “trusted,” but…
Sunday, December 6 1 PM Pacific US ~~~ 3 PM Nicaragua ~~~ 4 PM Eastern US ~~~ 9 PM Greenwich UK Speakers: Camilo Mejia, Nicaraguan analyst and writer residing in the US, former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience John Perry, long-time investigator, writer and Nicaragua resident This webinar will examine the role played by…
Correction: The previous email sent out today was mistakenly a reprint of an older article you can find here. We apologize for any confusion this might have caused. Nicaragua Needs Our Solidarity to Rebuild!Nicaragua got slammed by two powerful hurricanes in two weeks in November, Eta, category 4 and Iota, category 5. Before Hurricane Iota…
Nicaragua and Central America got slammed by the second hurricane in two weeks, with Hurricane Iota, the strongest in history to hit Nicaragua when it made landfall just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta hit less than two weeks before. Again, Nicaragua was the most prepared country in the region. 160,000 people were evacuated…
Nicaragua and Central America just got slammed by the second hurricane in two weeks, with Hurricane Iota, the strongest in history to hit Nicaragua when it made landfall just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall less than two weeks ago. Again, Nicaragua was the most prepared country in the region. Seventy thousand…
By Nan McCurdy Organizations that led the coup attempt in 2018 against the constitutional government of President Daniel Ortega, continue to receive foreign funding from the United States and some European countries. The latest information on USAID funding of the US-directed opposition was made available by journalist William Grigsby on Radio La Primerísima’s Sin Fronteras…
