Alliance for Global Justice co-sponsored a recent delegation organized by Friends of the ATC (Farmworkers Union). Delegates lived and worked alongside ATC members. Susan Lagos, a long-time Nicaragua resident and former campesina (peasant farmer) herself, translated into English the life experiences told by Emerita Vega, the head of household of the family she stayed with.…
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NicaNotes: Exclusive interview with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister
Note from the editor Beginning this week, I will be joined by a new co-author of NicaNotes, Nan McCurdy. You may recognize Nan as the compiler of the BRIEFS section of NicaNotes. She has been writing the English summaries of the news from Nicaragua since early in the coup months of April and May. In…
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NicaNotes: Luis Almagro calls for foreign intervention in Nicaragua (again)
NicaNotes is a blog for Nicaragua activists and those interested in Nicaragua, published by the Nicaragua Network, a project of the Alliance for Global Justice. It provides news and analysis from the context of Nicaragua Network’s long history of struggle in solidarity with the Sandinista Revolution. Guest Blogs on the OAS and a Movie Review of Las Sandinistas…
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NicaNotes: US NICA Act Aims to Cut Nicaragua Access to Capital While Nicaragua Targets US Funding Pipeline to the Opposition
by Chuck Kaufman The Nicaraguan government removed the legal standing last week of nine non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that supported the attempted coup that disrupted much of the country for three months last spring and summer. It should also be remembered that Violeta Chamorro removed the legal standing of nine NGOs when she was president from…
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NicaNotes: The Return of the Nicaraguan Contras, and the Rise of the Pro-Contra Left
by DAN KOVALIK DECEMBER 7, 2018 COUNTERPUNCH According to our nation’s paper of record, the New York Times, the Nicaraguan Contras re-activated some time ago in order to take on their old foe, Daniel Ortega, who had been re-elected in 2007 after a long hiatus of 17 years. One may recall that it was the pressure of the…
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NicaNotes: The Troika Of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project In Latin America & Its Epigones
The Troika Of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project In Latin America & Its Epigones By Roger Harris, Popular Resistance November 5, 2018 Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are today threatened by US imperialism. The first salvo of the modern Age of Imperialism started back in 1898 when the US seized Cuba along with Puerto Rico and the…
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NicaNotes: Fabricated Guardian Stories Aid Violent Failed Coup in Nicaragua
Fabricated Guardian Stories Aid Violent Failed Coup in Nicaragua By Nora McCurdy and Nan McCurdy Reprinted from Popular Resistance / November 9, 2018 “Cathedral protests highlight Ortega’s broken Alliance with Nicaragua’s church” an article in today’s [British liberal newspaper The] Guardian by Toby Stirling has no true facts – this has become typical of The…
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Refugee Caravan: Where are the Nicaraguans?
By Chuck Kaufman By the time this blog is published, the results of the US midterm elections will be known. I’m willing to bet now that if the Democrats hoped-for “Blue Wave” does not materialize, their number one scapegoat will be the caravan of refugees from Central America which is slowly crossing Mexico. I have…
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NicaNotes: Smoking Gun shows Catholic Hierarchy Coup Involvement
By Chuck Kaufman One of the “smoking guns,” proving the lie of the opposition and media story about the supposedly peaceful, spontaneous uprising against the “tyrant” Daniel Ortega, was revealed with the release on Oct. 23 of a clandestine recording of a Catholic bishop claiming credit for the failed coup. Members of the Christian Community…
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NicaNotes: NSCAG Statement and Briefing October 2018
This week I want to share the October briefing from the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Action Group in the United Kingdom. NSCAG has close ties to the Trade Union movement in Great Britain. The Nicaragua Solidarity Committee and the US Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice have been strong allies for decades and are in almost daily…