Written by Tom Ricker, Quixote Center Since April 18, the solidarity movement has been struggling over how to interpret events in Nicaragua and where to push in terms of advocacy and/or speaking out. As with many people following the situation, I have watched and listened to friends take a harsh line towards one another and with me…
Government responds to IACHR’s one-sided final report This week we give space to the government of Nicaragua to respond to unbalanced and politically biased reporting on the human rights situation arising from the failed coup efforts of the past four months. To read the statement in its original Spanish CLICK HERE EVALUATIVE REPORT OF THE…
Nicaragua’s failed coup By Charles Redvers For three months Daniel Ortega and his government in Nicaragua were under intense pressure to resign – from protesters and opposition groups, from local media and from right-wing politicians in the US. But by mid-July it became clear that, despite persistent images of near-collapse painted by the international press,…
Chomsky on Regime Change in Nicaragua by ROGER HARRIS Originally published by Counterpunch on August 3, 2018 Photo by hobvias sudoneighm | CC BY 2.0 With patented angst, Noam Chomsky opined on President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua to an agreeing Amy Goodman: “But there’s been a lot of corruption, a lot of repression. It’s autocratic, undoubtedly.” Earlier in their DemocracyNow!…
“We are seduced by the fact that the children eat and go to school.” –Orlando Nuñez Soto speaking about Cuba By Katherine Hoyt The phrase that has been going through my head for the last few weeks is something that Orlando Núñez Soto said a number of years ago with relation to Cuba: “We are…
By Chuck Kaufman The Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice and I have recently been called Orteguistas (Ortega supporters). We used to be called Danielistas before it became necessary to the narrative to demonize him completely by denying him the practice in some parts of Latin America of calling those you respect, like Fidel and Che,…
CORRECTING THE RECORD: WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN NICARAGUA? By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, Popular Resistance July 10, 2018 There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of CNN and Nicaragua’s oligarchic media to support the removal of…
[The following post is a revision and update of a blog I wrote Oct. 26, 2017 entitled “MRS: Should They Lose the Right to Use the Name of Sandino? The MRS is a prominent part of the opposition to President Ortega’s government and a primary source of information for the international press. Due to their…
Originally Printed on June 24, 2018 by Misión Verdad [Translated from the Spanish by the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice.] The demonstrations by the opposition in Nicaragua in recent months must be framed in the context of a region where armed and “para-criminal” violence at the hands of bands like Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle…
This guest blog was written by an internationalist living in Nicaragua who asked that their name not be used for fear of retaliation by violent factions of the opposition. The role of the police in Nicaragua’s current crisis is a key one. From the opposition standpoint, they are the source of most if not all…
