This page-turner summarizes the irregular coup-attempt that struck Nicaragua in 2018, claiming 253 lives. Longtime columnist Kathryn Albrecht’s succinct and compelling overview first appeared in four parts, May to June 2019, in west-central New Mexico’s historical paper-of-record, El Defensor Chieftain. She conducted interviews in southern Nicaragua in March and visited northern communities in July of 2019. Albrecht…
By Chuck Kaufman This week NicaNotes is the second and final installment of chapter: The Catholic Church Hierarchy and Its Role in the Current Political Crisis in Nicaragua by Coleen Littlejohn in our electronic book Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? This book is the true story of the failed US-funded 2018 coup in Nicaragua.…
By Chuck Kaufman This week NicaNotes returns to serializing portions of the electronic book that Alliance for Global Justice published this year, with A Lot of help from our friends. Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup? is the true story of the failed US-funded 2018 coup in Nicaragua. You can download the book in pdf…
By Stephen Sefton (A longer version of this piece was published on http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/7269? on September 4, 2019.) A fundamental dimension of contemporary psychological warfare has been dual-purpose corporate co-option of non-governmental organizations. In that psy-warfare dimension, NGOs serve both as disinformation partners with Western news media and too as false interlocutors in international forums and…
By Jorge Capelan (Translated by Nan McCurdy. A longer version of this piece was published in managuaconamor.blogspot.com on Aug. 29, 2019) In Nicaragua, the sun continues to shine without declining an inch, as the great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío stated. Tourism is recovering, agricultural production continues to increase, social programs do not stop, Managua welcomes…
Originally published here. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reports from Managua, Nicaragua on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed dictator. Video by Ben Norton MAX BLUMENTHAL: We’re here in Managua’s Plaza Central, where you can see behind me hundreds of thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of…
By John Perry (John Perry is a UK citizen who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on housing and migration issues and writes about those and other topics.) When political conflict results in people being killed – especially at the hands of a government – the deaths are not just personal tragedies, they are propaganda…
A deadly arson attack during last year’s regime change attempt was blamed on Nicaragua’s government by everyone from the US State Department to The New York Times. New information has raised serious doubts about the official story, highlighting the wider campaign of misinformation waged by US and UK media. By John Perry (John Perry UK…
August 7, 2019 By Nan McCurdy Reprinted from The Grayzone ANPDH’s board members are accusing their director of stealing huge sums from US soft power organizations and inflating death tolls during last year’s coup attempt in Nicaragua. The OAS, which relied heavily on ANPDH’s flawed data, has kept silent so far. A year after a…
This week in NicaNotes we print two reviews of the book that Alliance for Global Justice published “with more than a little help from our friends,” many of whom live in Nicaragua and suffered the terror and economic shut-down caused by the attempted coup in 2018. The first review is by US solidarity activist Roger…
