NicaNotes is a blog for Nicaragua activists and those interested in Nicaragua, published by the Nicaragua Network, a project of the Alliance for Global Justice. It provides news and analysis from the context of Nicaragua Network’s long history of struggle in solidarity with the Sandinista Revolution. Guest Blogs on the OAS and a Movie Review of Las Sandinistas…
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Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 1.4.2019 Pompeo Recharges US Regime Change as its Targets continue to progress
Venezuela webinar from President Maduro’s inauguration with Akinyele Umoja January 10 From Reuters (so full of the standard anti-ALBA country propaganda): Pompeo, Brazil’s new government target Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua Venezuela Venezuela has now Built 2.5 Million Homes for those Needing Decent Housing; even in 2017 only 7.6% of venezuelans had to rent, compared to 21%…
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Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 12.28.2018 Statements from ALBA 16th Summit
In ALBA Summit, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlights the achievements of ALBA, stands with Venezuela and Nicaragua, calls for a united front against imperialist aggression Final Declaration of the XVI ALBA-TCP Summit held in Havana, December 15, 2018/ Venezuela Government of Venezuela Delivers Toys for 10 Million Children Network in Defense of Humanity: Call to…
Chuck Kaufman, NicaNotes, Uncategorized
NicaNotes: The Return of the Nicaraguan Contras, and the Rise of the Pro-Contra Left
by DAN KOVALIK DECEMBER 7, 2018 COUNTERPUNCH According to our nation’s paper of record, the New York Times, the Nicaraguan Contras re-activated some time ago in order to take on their old foe, Daniel Ortega, who had been re-elected in 2007 after a long hiatus of 17 years. One may recall that it was the pressure of the…
Honduras, immigration, News, Uncategorized
Bilingual WEBINAR presented by the Honduras Solidarity Network
[español abajo] Roots of the Exodus: from the Honduran political crisis to the Refugee caravan- an update Tuesday, December 11 at 7pm CT and Central American Time/8pm ET/6pm MT/5pm PT Please join this Honduras Solidarity Network webinar with Honduran journalist, former opposition congressman, and human rights defender, Bartolo Fuentes who was accompanying the Refugee Caravan…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua is a victim of double political standards
Breaking News: US Senate passed the NICA Act as amended on Nov. 27 by voice vote after the Foreign Relations Committee reported it out by unanimous consent. It now is on the President’s desk and will go into effect when he signs it. The NICA Act attacks the Nicaraguan economy by mandating that the US…
Colombia, Español, James Patrick Jordan, Peace, anti-war, and liberation, Uncategorized
Ataques a la JEP hundirían a Colombia en la guerra
Públicado en El Turbión Por: James Patrick Jordan – octubre 30 de 2018 En lo que sería un descarado ataque a los acuerdos de paz de Colombia, el fiscal general Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira ha acusado a Martha Lucía Zamora, July Henríquez y Ernesto Caicedo, funcionarios de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), de haber…
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Oct Venezuela Webinar (Recording and Transcript)
Fighting the International Media’s Economic War on Venezuela October’s Venezuela Webinar is with presenter Joe Emersberger, Canadian Engineer and UNIFOR member with Ecuadorian roots who has written primarily for FAIR.org, Counterpunch Telesur, and Znet. His latest piece on VenezuelaAnalylsis.org is titled “Trump’s Economic Sanctions Have Cost Venezuela About $6bn Since August 2017.” Emersberger provides us with an…
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NicaNotes: NSCAG Statement and Briefing October 2018
This week I want to share the October briefing from the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Action Group in the United Kingdom. NSCAG has close ties to the Trade Union movement in Great Britain. The Nicaragua Solidarity Committee and the US Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice have been strong allies for decades and are in almost daily…
Colombia, drug war, James Patrick Jordan, Uncategorized
Attacks on Peace Court Could Help Plunge Colombia Back into War
by James Patrick Jordan Send an email to Colombian authorities demanding they drop the charges against July Henriquez, Ernesto Caicedo, and Martha Lucía Zamora In a brazen attack on Colombia’s peace accords, Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira has brought charges against three former officials of the Special Peace Jurisdiction courts (JEP, by its Spanish…
