NicaNotes October 8, 2026 PETITION: We Demand an End to U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua! Organizations and individuals: Please sign on to this petition demanding an end to U.S. intervention in Nicaragua sponsored by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. (The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition is an international coalition of organizations and individuals in solidarity with Nicaragua, supporting its…
NicaNotes October 1, 2026 Rubio wants to defeat socialism in Nicaragua, not restore “democracy” By John Perry (Writer John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua, and publishes in the London Review of Books, FAIR, CovertAction and elsewhere. This article was first published in Countercurrents on September 17, 2026.) After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn…
NicaNotes September 24, 2026 “Guaranteeing Peace & Security”: Nicaragua’s Tourism Sector Backs Proposed Reforms By Becca Renk Foster [Becca Renk Foster is originally from Idaho, USA. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua. She coordinates the work of Casa Benjamin Linder in Managua and is part of the…
NicaNotes September 17, 2026 Ortega, Elections, and the Context Western Media Won’t Print By Richard Balzano [Richard M. Balzano is an historian and political analyst peddling truths at several institutions of higher learning, quietly devoted to the art of sedition and comfortably resigned to the peripheral left. This article was first published in the New…
NicaNotes September 10, 2026 By James Phillips (James Phillips is a cultural anthropologist. He and his wife Lucy Edwards were Witness for Peace team members in Nicaragua in 1985-87. He has returned to Nicaragua many times and has written about various aspects of Nicaragua and its relationship to the U.S.) My wife Lucy and I…
NicaNotes September 3, 2026 Nicaragua Raises Its Voice for Palestine in Another Landmark Case at the ICJ By Becca Renk Foster [Becca Renk Foster is originally from Idaho, USA. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua. She coordinates the work of Casa Benjamín Linder in Managua and is…
NicaNotes August 27, 2026 Marking the 46th Anniversary of the End of the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign By the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign of the United Kingdo When the Sandinistas came to power in 1979 their key priority was building “a new model of society based on equality, wellbeing, solidarity and social justice.” Nicaragua’s 1980 literacy Campaign…
NicaNotes August 20, 2026 Despite U.S. Hybrid Warfare and Sanctions, Nicaragua’s Socialist Government is Building Infrastructure and Providing Services at Impressive Rate PART TWO By Ben Grosscup [Ben Grosscup is a traveling folksinger who uses songs for political education in the anti-imperialist movement. This article was first published in Covert Action Magazine on July 8,…
REGISTER: bit.ly/NicaAug23 3pm ET, 1pm Nicaragua, noon Pacific, 8pm UK Spanish and English interpretation available. Q&A period following the speaker. Webinar focus: Following the loss of the elections in 1990, Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) vowed to “govern from below.” Over the next 17 years, three US-backed neoliberal governments privatized health care and education. Thousands…
NicaNotes August 6, 2026 By William Grigsby Vado [William Grigsby Vado is a Nicaraguan journalist, FSLN Militant, and Director of Radio La Primerisima.] Who can give us lessons in democracy? By what right? We know what it is, how it is built, and how it is defended. We know that democracy does not begin or…
