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…
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NSCAG Rebuts Amnesty International Allegations
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…
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NicaNotes: If You Play With Matches, You Might Get Burned.
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…
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Nicanotes: The Murals of the Nicaraguan Revolution
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…
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NicaNotes: ATC: Defending Rural Workers Since the 1970s
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…
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Nicanotes: Nicaragua Reminds the US of its Debts
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…
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Nicanotes: Prosperity and Security in Central America
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,…
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Poor Journalism Muddies Canal Story
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…
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Trump’s Budget Would Cut Aid; Nicaraguan Leaders Aren’t Concerned
About Subscribe Contact Economic sector leaders recently spoke out unanimously that Trump’s proposed budget cuts in foreign aid will not affect Nicaragua. The threat of the NICA Act, though, does continue to look malignantly over the horizon, so let’s explore this week where economic relations stand between Washington and Managua. In the US system, presidents…
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Nicanotes: AfGJ Releases Honduras/Nicaragua Delegation Report
This week I want to draw your attention to a report on the delegation I led in February to Honduras and Nicaragua. The delegation compared and contrasted the two counties in the areas of rural development, citizen security, and women’s empowerment. In Nicaragua we were hosted by the ATC farmworkers union. You can read or download the 27-page…