The Alliance for Global Justice announces the: Food Sovereignty & Agroecology in Nicaragua Delegation Which we are co-sponsoring with Friends of the ATC January 3rd-13th, 2019 Since its founding in 1978, the Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo (ATC) has trained, organized, and fought for the rights of Nicaraguan farmworkers and small-scale producers. Today the ATC,…
By Chuck Kaufman One of the “smoking guns,” proving the lie of the opposition and media story about the supposedly peaceful, spontaneous uprising against the “tyrant” Daniel Ortega, was revealed with the release on Oct. 23 of a clandestine recording of a Catholic bishop claiming credit for the failed coup. Members of the Christian Community…
The NICA Act in its resurrected Senate form as the Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018, sponsored by Ted Cruz and Robert Menendez, has now been added to the Senate calendar and is expected to be voted on by unanimous consent shortly. This bill not only would direct US officials to block loans from…
Click Here to Take Action Now! On Wednesday, September 26, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported out the Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018 (S. 3233) which incorporates the House of Representatives-passed Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017 (NICA Act). S. 3233, the Senate bill, not only would direct US officials to block loans from…
Nicaragua’s failed coup By Charles Redvers For three months Daniel Ortega and his government in Nicaragua were under intense pressure to resign – from protesters and opposition groups, from local media and from right-wing politicians in the US. But by mid-July it became clear that, despite persistent images of near-collapse painted by the international press,…
Radio Interview on the failed coup in NicaraguaListen to this informative and incisive radio interview with AFGJ National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman. On the air with XWRW radio of Milwaukee, he explains the current crisis and failed coup in Nicaragua. The Grass is Greener-2018-07-28 Chuck Kaufman and Steve Watrous on Nicaragua.
A national newspaper once called it a hidden treasure. The small fishing town of Morrito, on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, could hardly be a quieter place. But on July 12 it was the scene of a brutal attack that cost the lives of five of its inhabitants. Beginning in mid-April, Nicaragua has been experiencing…
By Chuck Kaufman The Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice and I have recently been called Orteguistas (Ortega supporters). We used to be called Danielistas before it became necessary to the narrative to demonize him completely by denying him the practice in some parts of Latin America of calling those you respect, like Fidel and Che,…
Quixote Center/Alliance for Global Justice Urgent Action Take Action Tell Congress to Support Dialogue in Nicaragua, not impose more sanctions House Resolution 981 calls on the U.S. government to more aggressively employ the Magnitsky act as a means to sanction individual members of the Nicaraguan government, while also condemning violence in Nicaragua. The stated goal…
[The following post is a revision and update of a blog I wrote Oct. 26, 2017 entitled “MRS: Should They Lose the Right to Use the Name of Sandino? The MRS is a prominent part of the opposition to President Ortega’s government and a primary source of information for the international press. Due to their…
