Guest Post by Larry Fisk Having been in Nicaragua during elections in 1990, 2011 and 2012, I arrived in Managua on Friday, October 28 to be present for the current electoral process. Among the first things I noticed was that Managua seems cleaner than I have ever seen it. A campaign promoting clean living as…
In the last couple of months, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has taken its opposition to the Ortega government to new depths, openly calling for US sanctions against Nicaragua. At what point does a political party with Sandinista in its name, lose the right to use that name? But before answering that question, let’s first…
I’ve been unable to write a substantive post this week due to Alliance for Global Justice’s involvement in the SOA Watch Border Convergence in Southern Arizona to protest border militarization and US migrant/refugee policies. Nicaraguans are not among the Central Americans who now make up two-thirds of the refugees apprehended crossing the border in Arizona.…
One of the projects of the Sandinista government led by President Daniel Ortega, since he returned to the presidency in 2007, has been the sustained commitment to clean energy and to make access to that clean energy accessible to more people, especially in rural areas. Every week there are announcements of new projects, by the…
This week’s guest blog is from the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom. Nicaragua Network has worked closely with the NSC for many years and even shared a staff person in Nicaragua for a few years in the 1990s. We find that our political analysis is almost always in synch. On 6 November, Nicaraguans…
Special thanks to Informe Pastran for pulling together a number of sources about the efforts of Cuban gusanos in the US Congress to impose sanctions on Nicaragua and to report the State Department and USAID responses which are just about as bad. The quotes I use below were first made in English then translated into…
A Guest Blog by Katherine Hoyt Former Nicaragua Network/AfGJ National Co-Coordinator Kathy Hoyt contributes an obituary lamenting the loss Sandinista National Assembly President and revolutionary, Rene Nuñez. The Nicaragua Network is saddened by the loss of Nuñez and sends our condolences to his family and the people of Nicaragua. Last week’s NicaNotes guest blog on…
Editor’s Note: The author of this guest blog, raises some interesting questions about the motivations of North American volunteers in Nicaragua from the 1980s and now. The speculations and questions he raises ring true to me, but I realize I am also of that 1980s generation and my first trip there was to pick coffee.…
August seems to have been the month when the corporate media decided it was time to try to delegitimize Nicaragua’s November election for president and President Daniel Ortega in particular. None of the attacks were news stories; all were editorials and op-eds where any kind of nonsense can be written with no expectation that it…
One item that caught my eye in the news this past week was an article in El Nuevo Diario about the Second Central American Forum on Housing and City. Hector Lacayo, president of the Chamber of Builders of Nicaragua, was quoted as saying that 78% of Nicaraguans live in housing that doesn’t meet “the minimum…
