By John Kotula To a large extent, the United States’ policy toward Central America attempts to address the intertwined problems of immigration, drug trafficking, organized criminal gangs, political corruption, and societal violence. Given these priorities, you would think that Nicaragua would be the US’s best friend, since relatively few Nicaraguans emigrate north, Nicaragua’s role in the international movement of…
By Paul Baker Hernandez “When Americans are in need. Americans pull together and we are one country.” President Trump’s words ‘honoring’ victims of September 11, 2001, and the lashings of Irma and Harvey, have all the tawdry familiarity of last year’s Halloween costume. You have to feel for comfy politicians faced with yet another random…
By John Kotula Photos by John Kotula This photo essay, and the ideas that accompany it, is directed mainly to people from the US with an interest in Nicaragua. The premise here is that the image of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua is so omnipresent, so beloved, and so central to Nicaraguan’s self-identity that it is impossible…
This piece was originally published on September 1, 2017 by NCSAG We have written a detailed response to Amnesty International’s recent report Nicaragua: Danger: Rights for Sale. A link to an article by AI and the report can be found here The report is largely if not exclusively based on testimony from a minority group of activists opposed…
By Chuck Kaufman A small but telling drama has played out over the last couple of weeks that demonstrates how much has changed in Nicaragua since Daniel Ortega was elected president in November 2006. It also demonstrates how US entities that continue to play by the old rules of lies and disinformation just might get…
By John Kotula This brief look at the history of culture and revolution is prompted by the recent publication of a Spanish edition of David Kunzle’s groundbreaking The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979 – 1992. “For us, la cultura es la Revolución y la Revolución es la cultura. [culture is the revolution and the revolution…
The Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice has a sister relationship with the Rural Workers Association through the US-based Friends of the ATC. The February 2017 portion of our Honduras-Nicaragua delegation was hosted by the ATC and we plan further collaborations on delegations in the future. This week’s guest blog is a description of the…
Passage by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of the ridiculous NICA Act brought a rebuff by the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega and a reminder of the US’s own unpaid debt to Nicaragua. The NICA Act (Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017), if it became law, would require US representatives in multilateral lending institutions to vote against loans…
About Subscribe Contact Prosperity and Security in Central America By John Kotula and Chuck Kaufman “Countries like Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama… have the lowest homicide rates in Central America, light-years from their neighbors in the so-called Northern Triangle.” New York Times, July 16, 2017 On June 15 and 16, 2017,…
About Subscribe Contact I’ve noticed a few Nicaphiles on social media have published on their timelines an article from The Times entitled China puts Nicaraguan Canal plan on hold. While the status of the Grand Canal is by no means clear, I would caution against putting too much faith in this short article that appears to…
