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NicaNotes: The Revolution has transformed the lives of Nicaragua’s Caribbean peoples

January 22, 2020

Translated by tortilla on 11/01/2020 http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/8429 Adolfo Pastrán Arancibia, Informe Pastrán, in Radio La Primerísima, January 10th 2020 http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/general/276706/la-revolucion… On January 10th this year, the government of President Daniel Ortega completed thirteen years in office. Many things have changed in the country in political, social and economic terms, with great strides in competitiveness, human development and poverty…

NicaNotes: Poll Shows Nicaraguans Have Consigned the Coup to the Dustbin of History

January 15, 2020

By Chuck Kaufman The latest poll by independent M&R Consultants covering the last quarter of 2019, shows that less than two years after the failed coup attempt of April-July, 2018, the Sandinista government, led by President Daniel Ortega is more popular than ever and all but a tiny minority of Nicaraguans reject the violent tactics…

NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s Message at the COP 25

January 9, 2020

By Dr. Paul Oquist Translated by Tortillaconsal.com [Editor’s Note: Nicaragua’s message to the Nov. 11-22, 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, COP25, seems particularly relevant as our first blog of 2020 due to the fires still raging in Australia, Time Magazine’s naming of young climate change activist Greta Thunberg as the Person of the Year, and…

Sanctions Kill. Join AFGJ and Nicaraguan Farmers to Fight the Blockade of Venezuela

December 18, 2019

By Chuck Kaufman Everything I know about true solidarity I learned from Sandinista Nicaraguans in the 1980s and since. I’m excited to write in this last NicaNotes blog of 2019 to introduce a 3-way solidarity project that we can all participate in. It is called the Manitos Children’s Fund. Manitos means “little hands” in Spanish.…

NicaNotes: Sandinista Party Keeps La Purísima More Alive Than Ever

December 11, 2019

By Jorge Capelan Translated by Nan McCurdy Thanks to the Sandinista Revolution for preserving and rescuing one of the most democratic and popular expressions of Nicaraguan culture, La Purísima, in honor of the Virgin Mary, which is celebrated between November 28 and December 8 with a climax on December 7 with La Gritería, the most…

NicaNotes: Food Sovereignty Takes a Leap Forward

December 4, 2019

Trump Calls Nicaragua “a national security threat”! Tell him it’s a lie! On Nov. 25, President Trump renewed Executive Order 13851 that he issued a year ago calling “a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and…

NicaNotes: Nicaragua in 2019 Would Make Anyone Proud

November 27, 2019

By Nan McCurdy Carlos Fonseca Amador, the founder of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation would have a lot to be proud of in 2019, 43 years after he died in battle with the Somoza National Guard. Nicaragua continues to be a country in solidarity with others as it showed November 6 at the United…

NicaNotes: Nicaraguan Opposition Praises Bolivian Coup

November 20, 2019

Nicaraguan Opposition Praises Bolivian Coup By Chuck Kaufman Anyone who remains under the illusion that the opposition behind the 2018 failed coup in Nicaragua was rising up from the Left should wake up and smell the coffee as the groups representing the coup mongers fall over themselves to praise the ultra-right, anti-indigenous coup in Bolivia.…

NicaNotes: Bolivian Coup, Imperialist Inquisition, and Briefs

November 13, 2019

On Sunday of this publication week, the Empire succeeded in Bolivia, where it has failed in Nicaragua and Venezuela, to foment a coup against democratically-elected President Evo Morales. Morales resigned in an effort to avert further bloodshed and has been granted political asylum in Mexico. There are reports coming out of Bolivia of continued violence…

NicaNotes: The Great Hypocrisy of Our Time

November 6, 2019

By Jorge Capelán, Tortillaconsal.com October 30, 2019 (Reprinted from Tortillaconsal.com and Popular Resistance) When it is truly the people who rise up, you can tell from a mile away. When the protests are not organized by the powerful, the demonstrators do not look like soldiers or criminals. They have no mortars or home-made weapons, no contact…

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