By Gabriela Luna This is an edited excerpt from The Other Nicaragua, Empire and Resistance, published October 2nd, 2019, by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Translation from Spanish into English by Jill Clark-Gollub. In 2007, the U.S. redesigned its strategy in Nicaragua, dropping its financial support for political parties that had lost significant prestige due to their…
By Carlos Fonseca Teran, translated to English by Nan McCurdy [Ed. Son of Sandinista founder Carlos Fonseca and a leader and thinker in his own right, Carlos Fonseca Teran compares and contrasts the attempted coup in Nicaragua last year with the just ended popular uprising against IMF structural adjustment policies in Ecuador. For those who…
By Nan McCurdy On October 5, the 107th anniversary of the assassination of Nicaraguan Hero Benjamin Zeledon by collaborators with US Marines invited in by Nicaraguans who wanted uncontested power, President Daniel Ortega said Nicaragua is considering the possibility of returning to the International Court of Justice. He revealed that the government has documented the…
This page-turner summarizes the irregular coup-attempt that struck Nicaragua in 2018, claiming 253 lives. Longtime columnist Kathryn Albrecht’s succinct and compelling overview first appeared in four parts, May to June 2019, in west-central New Mexico’s historical paper-of-record, El Defensor Chieftain. She conducted interviews in southern Nicaragua in March and visited northern communities in July of 2019. Albrecht…
By Chuck Kaufman This week NicaNotes is the second and final installment of chapter: The Catholic Church Hierarchy and Its Role in the Current Political Crisis in Nicaragua by Coleen Littlejohn in our electronic book Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? This book is the true story of the failed US-funded 2018 coup in Nicaragua.…
By Chuck Kaufman This week NicaNotes returns to serializing portions of the electronic book that Alliance for Global Justice published this year, with A Lot of help from our friends. Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? is the true story of the failed US-funded 2018 coup in Nicaragua. You can download the book in pdf…
By Stephen Sefton (A longer version of this piece was published on http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/7269? on September 4, 2019.) A fundamental dimension of contemporary psychological warfare has been dual-purpose corporate co-option of non-governmental organizations. In that psy-warfare dimension, NGOs serve both as disinformation partners with Western news media and too as false interlocutors in international forums and…
By Jorge Capelan (Translated by Nan McCurdy. A longer version of this piece was published in managuaconamor.blogspot.com on Aug. 29, 2019) In Nicaragua, the sun continues to shine without declining an inch, as the great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío stated. Tourism is recovering, agricultural production continues to increase, social programs do not stop, Managua welcomes…
Originally published here. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reports from Managua, Nicaragua on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed dictator. Video by Ben Norton MAX BLUMENTHAL: We’re here in Managua’s Plaza Central, where you can see behind me hundreds of thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of…
By John Perry (John Perry is a UK citizen who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on housing and migration issues and writes about those and other topics.) When political conflict results in people being killed – especially at the hands of a government – the deaths are not just personal tragedies, they are propaganda…
