Midge Quandt, Presente! The Alliance for Global Justice and most especially the Nicaragua Network mourn the death of Midge Quandt who died on March 14 in New Jersey after battling Parkinson’s disease. A scholar-activist, Midge had a Ph.D. in history. She was active in the Princeton-Granada Sister City Project before joining the executive committee of…
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Nicanotes: New “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” about Nicaragua from Human Rights NGOs
Fake News from Amnesty International and Global Witness By Chuck Kaufman The past month has seen a new round of attacks against Nicaragua from US-European professional human rights NGOs. Global Witness continues against all reason and evidence to claim that Nicaragua is one of the “most dangerous countries in the world for environmental defenders” in…
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Nicanotes: A History of the Providence-Niquinohomo Sister City Project
By John Kotula After the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, world wide support and friendship poured into Nicaragua. This took many forms, one of the most creative being the creation of Sister City projects. These were municipal affiliations in which cities and towns in the US, Europe, and other places partnered with Nicaraguan communities. The…
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Nicanotes: The NICA Act – What Is It and Why Should it be Opposed?
Guest Post By John Perry John Perry lives and works in Masaya, Nicaragua, is a member of the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign and blogs at http://twoworlds.me/ Editor’s NOTE: US Ambassador Laura Dagu reportedly has said that the Senate could vote on the NICA Act “any day now.” It is important that we let our Senators know…
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Nicanotes: Book Review: Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Life Long Activist
by John Kotula A Review of Waging Peace by David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday The trajectory of David Hartsough’s life, as described in this remarkable book, is a perfectly straight line. Starting in his boyhood, set on his path by deep family roots, he has been singularly committed to working for peace and social justice…
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Nicanotes: Guest Post: Help Stop the Passing of the NICA Act
Guest Post By Stevenicaragua Steve Lewis is a British humanitarian worker who has been living in Leon, Nicaragua for the last two years. He first visited Nicaragua in 1984/85 to pick coffee in solidarity with the revolution and has been involved with Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) ever since. Steve has also lived in El Salvador…
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Nicanotes: Guest Post: Gaspar Garcia Laviana (Comandante Martin): Revolutionary Priest
Guest Post by David Gullette David Gullette is vice-president of the Newton (MA)/San Juan del Sur Sister City Project which has worked since 1988 on programs in health, appropriate technology and education in rural and urban parts of the township. See www.newtonsanjuan.org. His books about Nicaragua include “Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry From Soletiname”, “!GASPAR! A Spanish…
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NicaNotes: Guest Post: A Reflection on Living in Nicaragua: 30 Years Later
About Subscribe Contact A Guest Blog by Philip Wingeier-Rayo This year marks the 30th anniversary of my moving to Nicaragua in 1988. I was touched by Chuck’s 30th anniversary blog last month, in which he reflected on his experience with the international the coffee picking brigades in 1987 and 1988. This…
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NicaNotes: Hasta la Victoria Siempre!
By John Kotula From June of 2015 through June of 2017, I lived in Chinandega, Chinandega, indisputably the hottest city in Nicaragua. I was a Peace Corps volunteer. Walking around town, sweating, I often passed a statue of a revolutionary throwing a molotov cocktail: I always had the same thought, “Ah! Nicaragua! A country where…
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NicaNotes: Guest Post: Nicaragua Grabbed My Heart
By Diana Bohn Diana Bohn is a long-time Nicaragua activist in California’s Bay Area and she is a former chair of the board of the Alliance for Global Justice. I’m responding to Chuck’s request for contributions from others whose lives were changed by their first visit to Nicaragua. I, too, had my heart grabbed by…