By Chuck Kaufman Everything I know about true solidarity I learned from Sandinista Nicaraguans in the 1980s and since. I’m excited to write in this last NicaNotes blog of 2019 to introduce a 3-way solidarity project that we can all participate in. It is called the Manitos Children’s Fund. Manitos means “little hands” in Spanish.…
By Jorge Capelan Translated by Nan McCurdy Thanks to the Sandinista Revolution for preserving and rescuing one of the most democratic and popular expressions of Nicaraguan culture, La Purísima, in honor of the Virgin Mary, which is celebrated between November 28 and December 8 with a climax on December 7 with La Gritería, the most…
Trump Calls Nicaragua “a national security threat”! Tell him it’s a lie! On Nov. 25, President Trump renewed Executive Order 13851 that he issued a year ago calling “a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and…
Reprinted from tortillaconsal.com , 26/10/2019 By John Perry Some of the local ‘human rights’ organisations in Nicaragua, which received foreign funding and operated as propaganda vehicles against the government, lost their legal status earlier this year. One of these was CENIDH, run by Vilma Nuñez. Several of the CENIDH staff, including Gonzalo Carrión, one of its…
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…
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…
David Archuleta Jr., National Co-Coordinator AFGJ Not even the mosquito-rich Managuan heat could stop the onrush of Nicaraguans from every department in the country to the Plaza de la Fe. They came adorned with FSLN hats, #danielsequeda t-shirts, red and black on every possible accessory. Thousands came by bus, cramming every seat and even filling…
David Archuleta Jr., Coordinador Nacional AFGJ Ni siquiera el calor de Managua, rico en mosquitos, pudo detener la avalancha de nicaragüenses de todos los departamentos del país hacia la Plaza de la Fe. Llegaron adornados con sombreros del FSLN, camisetas #danielsequeda, rojas y negras en todos los accesorios posibles. Miles vinieron en autobús, abarrotando cada…
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…
