By Nan McCurdy Today, July 17 is the 40th anniversary of the Day of Happiness when the US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza fled Nicaragua in the early morning hours. The final offensive against Somoza and the feared National Guard was led by the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), in great measure a bunch of teenagers…
Venezuela: Responses to Bachelet UN Human Rights Report Alfred de Zayas: UN human rights report on Venezuela fundamentally flawed and disappointing Pasqualina Curcio Curcio: Provide Evidence, Mrs. Bachelet Resumen Latinoamericano: Venezuela Urges UNHCR to Correct 70 Mistakes in its Report Statement by Venezuelan Government in Response to Bachelet’s UNHCR Report Grayzone: ‘Weaponizing human rights’: UN…
Demoledora demostración de fuerza sandinista By Jorge Capelan Saturday July 6, the people of Nicaragua celebrated the strategic retreat to Masaya with a mobilization that for 40 years has been characterized by two things: its massiveness and its organizational demands, given that it consists of a march or caravan of thousands and thousands of people…
By Chuck Kaufman (Original source material translated by Nan McCurdy) Last week’s turbulent meeting of the 49th General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Medellin, Colombia, further weakened the regional body, virtually killed Secretary General Luis Almagro’s prospects for re-election, and dealt yet another devastating blow to the Nicaraguan opposition and the Trump…
By Chuck Kaufman This week we continue our irregular serialization of Live From Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup?, the electronic coup reader Alliance for Global Justice posted in April with a lot of help from our friends including over 20 authors and several editors. You can download the book in pdf or two different e-book formats…
[Editor’s Note: The Sandinista media is covering many events commemorating the fortieth anniversary of much heroism and lives lost leading up to July 19, 1979 Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution over the brutal 45-year long Somoza family dictatorship. At the same time Nicaragua is remembering the worst of the coup violence – deaths, torture, and…
By Chuck Kaufman The willingness of the Sandinista government to go to almost any lengths to achieve national peace and tranquility, including pardoning the crimes of those in the opposition who killed, tortured, burned homes, schools, markets, and public buildings in last year’s failed coup attempt, is consistent with their historical record. Recall that the…
By John Perry John Perry UK citizen who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on housing and migration issues and writes about those and other topics covered in the Two Worlds blog. This piece was first published in the Two Worlds blog responding to a “news” show in the UK. Unfortunately it applies equally to…
By Nan McCurdy The Nicaraguan government and the opposition Civic Alliance have been negotiating a peace agreement since February but, while measurable good faith is seen on the government’s side, the opposition has ceded nothing, and half the time does not even show up. On May 23, as a way of measuring support, the opposition…
by Chuck Kaufman “US Imperialism and Nicaragua: ‘They would not let our flower blossom,’” which we began serializing last week, is the first chapter of Live from Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup, published on April 18, 2019, the first anniversary of failed coup that rocked Nicaragua for three months last year. At over 300 pages, this…
