Venezuelanalysis: President Maduro Recognizes Aaron Bushnell Sacrifice, Calls For Stop to Gaza Genocide Maduro paid tribute to Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who immolated himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, to bring attention to the genocide against the Palestinian people. In his final words, Bushnell called for stopping the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Maduro…
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NicaNotes: The Human Rights Industry and Nicaragua
by John Perry [This article was first published in Covert Action Magazine on February 6, 2024] John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and other outlets. Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do…
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Venezuela & ALBA News 2.23.2024: Standing with Palestine; More on the Latest Coup Plot; Navalny on Venezuela; Spring Delegations
Al Mayadeen: Cuban President backs Lula’s comments on Gaza genocide President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed solidarity with Brazilian President Lula after he was classified as persona non grata by “Israel for his sincere condemnation of the extermination of the Palestinian population in Gaza.” Brazilian President said during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, “What’s happening…
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NicaNotes: On the 90th Anniversary of His Death: Race, Class and Sandino’s Politics
By Katherine Hoyt [This article was published in Against the Current, July/August 1995, in the year of the centennial of Augusto Sandino’s birth. We republish it this week on the 90th anniversary of his death on February 21, 1934.] Katherine Hoyt is a retired National Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice. In retirement…
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Venezuela & ALBA News 2.16.2024: Venezuela acts against US-backed Coup Attempts; US Retaliates with more Sanctions
World Beyond War Thanks Nicaragua for Standing Against Genocide On behalf of all the caring people of the world, we want to thank the government of Nicaragua for being the first to formally request to intervene at the International Court of Justice in the case brought by South Africa, and in support of holding the…
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NicaNotes: Nicaragua Leads the World: Holding Countries Accountable Without War or Sanctions
By Becca Renk Becca Renk grew up in North Idaho and has lived in Nicaragua since 2001 working in sustainable community development in Ciudad Sandino with Jubilee House Community and its project, Center for Development in Central America. [This article was first published by the Casa Ben Linder on February 13, 2024.] I was 13…
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Venezuela & ALBA News 2.9.2024: 600 Organizations Demand Biden End Economic War on Venezuela; Why the US Reimposed Sanctions; The “Human Rights” Industry in Nicaragua; Trips to Cuba
More than 600 Organizations Demand Biden End Sanctions against Venezuela “Mr. President Biden: We, the undersigned, wish to express our deep concern about the regressions in the scheme of Unilateral Coercive Measures against Venezuela, which we consider a form of extortion of the Venezuelan government and an obstacle to the economic and social development of…
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NicaNotes: World Court Israel Ruling and the 1986 Judgment against the US in the Nicaragua Case
By Nat Parry [This article was first published in Consortium News on January 29, 2024.] Nat Parry is the author of the forthcoming book Samuel Adams and the Vagabond Henry Tufts: Virtue Meets Vice in the Revolutionary Era. He is editor of American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader. Now that the International Court of Justice…
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Venezuela & ALBA News 2.2.2024: Venezuela’s Response to new US Economic Warfare measures; Assange and Venezuela
Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: Washington Announces Renewed Economic Warfare Against Venezuela, Caracas Responds The US government confirmed that it will not renew the Office of Foreign Assets Control License 44, which partially and temporarily relaxed some of the illegal sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil and gas and mining sectors. The US accuses Venezuela of violating the…
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NicaNotes: Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights
By Alfred de Zayas Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. He is the author of twelve books. [This article was first published in Counterpunch on Dec. 29, 2023.] As a matter of proper terminology, it is best…