NicaNotes: Fake News and False Travel Advisory: Take ActionNicaNotes: Fake News and False Travel Advisory: Take Action Even Scientific American has been drawn into the international attack on Nicaragua and the US-funded regime change campaign. Below, Nicaragua’s chief climate change negotiator, Dr. Paul Oquist, calls out Scientific American on its fake news. Below that is…
Official Nicaragua response to UN Human Rights Report NicaNotes will not typically devote this space to official Sandinista government writings or publications. We make an exception in this instance because of the gravity of the misinformation contained in the report by the Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights and the almost universal…
Written by Tom Ricker, Quixote Center Since April 18, the solidarity movement has been struggling over how to interpret events in Nicaragua and where to push in terms of advocacy and/or speaking out. As with many people following the situation, I have watched and listened to friends take a harsh line towards one another and with me…
Government responds to IACHR’s one-sided final report This week we give space to the government of Nicaragua to respond to unbalanced and politically biased reporting on the human rights situation arising from the failed coup efforts of the past four months. To read the statement in its original Spanish CLICK HERE EVALUATIVE REPORT OF THE…
Nicaragua’s failed coup By Charles Redvers For three months Daniel Ortega and his government in Nicaragua were under intense pressure to resign – from protesters and opposition groups, from local media and from right-wing politicians in the US. But by mid-July it became clear that, despite persistent images of near-collapse painted by the international press,…
Chomsky on Regime Change in Nicaragua by ROGER HARRIS Originally published by Counterpunch on August 3, 2018 Photo by hobvias sudoneighm | CC BY 2.0 With patented angst, Noam Chomsky opined on President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua to an agreeing Amy Goodman: “But there’s been a lot of corruption, a lot of repression. It’s autocratic, undoubtedly.” Earlier in their DemocracyNow!…
“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…
