1. Nicaraguans concerned about health of Chavez 2. Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador meet on Gulf of Fonseca 3. Colombia still refuses to recognize World Court ruling 4. Purisima without fireworks accidents! 5. Energy Ministers commit to biofuels 6. Nicaraguan police show region’s police their training methods 7. Nicaragua advances the rights of domestic workers…
Nicaragua
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua
Nicaragua News Bulletin for the week of December 4th
1. Ortega and Santos meet in Mexico on World Court ruling 2. Nicaragua to use Sucre for ALBA trade 3. World Bank lauds Nicaragua’s progress 4. Nicaragua hosts water forum; canal viability challenged 5. Indigenous conferences on climate change held 6. US companies eye Nicaraguan fruit and vegetables 7. International HIV/AIDS Day celebrated with new…
Chuck Kaufman, Democracy, Nicaragua
Optimism and Hope in Nicaragua
by Chuck Kaufman ( http://www.nicanet.org/?p=1159) ) [Photo: Delegation meets with Esteli’s Deputy Mayor Rosa Argentina.]
Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Book Review: A True History of the Anti-Contra War Campaign
“The new book by Prof. Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign, is an important contribution to recording a true history of the era, unsullied by US government and media lies and disinformation. As such, I would recommend it as reading for the Occupy Movement for its lessons on how a decentralized…
Action alerts, Anti-War, Drug war, Honduras, Indigenous rights & liberation (Abya Yala, Americas), News, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
US participation in massacre of Moskito people!
On May 22 and 23 a delegation of human rights activists from the United States organized by Rights Action and Alliance for Global Justice visited the community of Ahuás in the Moskitia region of Honduras. The delegation witnessed an atmosphere of terror being generated amongst dire poverty in an area where the indigenous people are…
Delegations & tours, Democracy, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicaragua, the “threat of the good example” delegation with Roy Bourgeois
Join Roy Bourgeois on a delegation to Nicaragua Aug. 27-Sept. 5, 2012! Co-sponsored by SOA Watch and Nicaragua Network, we invite you to join this important delegation jointly organized by the largest and the oldest US Latin America solidarity groups.
Action alerts, Democracy, Nicaragua
US Right Wing Attacks Nicaragua
Contact your representatives! Send your Senators and Representative the article below responding to allegations of fraud in Nicaragua’s Nov. 6 presidential election. Include your own note saying you will not tolerate a return to the policies of the 1980s when the US made economic, political and proxy war on Nicaragua, the hemisphere’s second poorest country.…
Delegations & tours, News, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Elections 2011: Little Country with Great Hope
By Larry Fisk Esteli, Nicaragua- My daughter, a friend and I arrived in Nicaragua on October 17 to be in the country during the lead up to the elections on Sunday, November 6 and during the post election period till our departure on November 16. We rented a car in Managua and drove north to…
Action alerts, Delegations & tours, Eco-Solidarity, Nicaragua
A Sustainable Agriculture Delegation to Nicaragua
March 25 – April 4, 2012 Co-sponsored by Nicaragua Center for Community Action (NICCA) & Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy Since 1989 NICCA has enthusiastically supported Programa Campesino a Campesino (PCaC), a project of Nicaragua’s National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (UNAG). PCaC is a part of the world-wide Via Campesino movement, which…
Labor, News, Nicaragua, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor, sweatshops and CAFTA in Nicaragua
By Steve Watrous [Steve Watrous teaches sociology at Milwaukee Area Technical College and is the chair of the Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition. This article first appeared in the Labor Press. ]
