The eighth summit of the Association of Caribbean States was held in Managua March 28-29 with the participation of twenty-five member states and nine associate members. One of their reasons for forming twenty-five years ago was to improve their response to natural disasters. Given the Caribbean is more prone to disasters and every nation has…
By Ramon E. Matus Radio La Primerisima, 01 April 2019 In one year Nicaragua has become unrecognizable. The reality and the dreams of a country have been seriously damaged, precisely when its economic and social indicators took flight towards sustained growth, that is to say, when we were progressing after 50 years of being at…
BRIEFS By Chuck Kaufman Committed to negotiations for peace In a press release issued March 20, the Negotiations Round Table announced that “Thanks to the efforts of the Apostolic Nuncio, as witness and companion, and the Special Delegate of the OAS Secretary General, and taking into account the greater coinciding of positions, the negotiation process…
By Chuck Kaufman The opposition called for a demonstration on Saturday, Mar. 16 at Metrocentro, a busy shopping area and traffic circle in Managua. Eye witnesses report fewer than 200 people showed up. The poor turnout is an indication that the Nicaraguan people have no interest in a repeat of last year’s failed coup attempt…
By Jill Clark I met Zoilamérica Narváez in Nicaragua a few times in the 1980s. I found her to be an intelligent and personable young woman. I was later greatly saddened to learn of the sexual abuse allegations against her stepfather, Daniel Ortega. Then, as now, I had no reason to doubt the legitimacy of…
By Louise Richards The political dynamics of the Chamorro family are extremely complex. Carlos Fernando Chamorro’s father, the late Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, editor of La Prensa, was an outspoken critic of the then 33 year dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. His assassination on January 10, 1978 — by agents still unknown — made him a national…
By Chuck Kaufman On Tuesday, February 26, the Alliance for Global Justice and the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (UK) released a report, Dismissing the Truth, that exhaustively rebuts two reports on human rights in Nicaragua in 2018 by Amnesty International. The Amnesty International reports accuse the democratically-elected government of Nicaragua of “a strategy of…
Aquellos de nosotros que admiramos y buscamos la verdad nos encontramos en una época de creciente ansiedad. Más allá de la izquierda y la derecha políticas, hay narrativas que compiten sobre lo que realmente está ocurriendo en el país y en el extranjero. Los puntos de vista de Venezuela llevan la discusión a través de…
By David Archuleta En Espanol Aqui Those of us who admire and search for truth find ourselves in an age of increasing anxiety. Beyond the political left and right are competing narratives of what is actually occurring at home and in foreign countries. Views of Venezuela rend discussion across the US, for example, as some…
By Josh Bergeron, February 8, 2019 [Josh Bergeron is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is currently writing a dissertation about the solidarity movements of the 70s-80s, entitled “The North American Front”: Direct Action Anti-Imperialism in the Latin America Solidarity Movement, 1969-1992. He says, “But my interest is not purely academic,…
