By Jorge Capelan [Jorge Capelán is a Latin American journalist and political analyst who has worked for many years in Nicaragua. He appears weekly on news analysis programs and writes for several online news outlets.] Free Trade Zones (FTZs) play a very important role in Nicaragua’s struggle against poverty. As distinct from most countries in the…
By Rick Kohn [This article was originally published in LA Progressive on Oct. 27, 2021, as the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow was about to begin. The talks, which ended on Nov. 12, were generally agreed to have fallen short of expectations.] (Rick Kohn is a Professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural…
By Margaret Kimberley (Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report. She was an election companion with the Black Alliance for Peace delegation.) Remarks at Electoral Accompaniment Press Conference Managua, Nicaragua November 9, 2021 [You can view the entire press conference here: https://youtu.be/d513SW8NOtk] My name is Margaret Kimberley and I am a member of…
But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote For, with Sandinista Revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega Poised to Return to Power (This article was originally published in Covert Action Magazine on Nov. 3, 2021.) By Nan McCurdy (Nan McCurdy is the editor of NicaNotes. Now working in Mexico, she lived over 30…
This letter, signed by solidarity, human rights, religious, labor and other organizations, has been sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It denounces the misrepresentation and exploitation of disputes over land in Nicaragua’s autonomous Indigenous territories for political purposes by local and international organizations which claim to represent…
By John Perry [John Perry is based in Nicaragua and writes on Central America for The Nation, The London Review of Books, OpenDemocracy, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Counterpunch and other outlets.] Frances Haugen’s cutting accusations against her former employers, Facebook, on October 5 included references to how social media are used to provoke and…
By Becca Mohally Renk [Becca Mohally Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for 20 years, working with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America.] This week the Nicaraguan government announced that starting on October 20th it will be vaccinating children aged two to 17 with COVID-19 vaccines…
By Aparicio Cienfuegos and William Camacaro “Every time President Daniel Ortega speaks, he emphasizes that the Nicaraguan government has a preferential option for the poor. It is a way of doing politics. Why do politics if we do not seek the welfare of our populations, of the majority of historically marginalized people who have lacked…
By Becca Mohally Renk [Becca Mohally Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for 20 years, working with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA has been in Nicaragua since 1994 working in sustainable community development and runs a full time health clinic in Nueva Vida.…
By Yader Lanuza [Yader Lanuza is a Nicaraguan scholar who teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.] The Excuse Since the house arrest of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro’s daughter Cristiana Chamorro for money laundering and other crimes, the US and international assault against the Sandinista government has grown. This is the…
