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…
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NicaNotes: Nicaraguan President Considers Returning to the International Court of Justice
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…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s Joys and Sorrow: the Coup that Failed
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…
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NicaNotes: What was the Catholic Church’s role in the coup? Conclusion
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.…
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NicaNotes: What was the Catholic Church’s role in the coup?
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…
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NicaNotes: Green-smearing – from Nicaragua to Bolivia
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…
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NicaNotes: The Sun Doesn’t Go Down ‘Even a Little Bit’
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…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution is still thriving, after 40 years
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…
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NicaNotes: The rise and fall of Nicaragua’s ‘human rights’ organizations
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…
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NicaNotes: A year after Nicaragua’s coup, the media’s regime change deceptions are still unravelling
A deadly arson attack during last year’s regime change attempt was blamed on Nicaragua’s government by everyone from the US State Department to The New York Times. New information has raised serious doubts about the official story, highlighting the wider campaign of misinformation waged by US and UK media. By John Perry (John Perry UK…