Edited and translated by Nan McCurdy [This is primarily a translation of accounts by Edwin Mendoza. Mendoza is a member of the July 19 Sandinista Youth Association. He has begun writing his own story and that of other young people about what happened during the 2018 US-backed coup attempt. I found the following accounts on…
By Coleen Littlejohn (Coleen Littlejohn is a development economist who has worked for Catholic Relief Services in Colombia, Chile and Nicaragua, for Save the Children-Canada in Nicaragua, and the World Bank in Nicaragua and Liberia, West Africa. She was the first in-country staff person of the Nicaragua Network office in Managua from early 1986 to…
By John Perry and Dan Kovalik (Daniel Kovalik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA). He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. John Perry is a COHA Senior Research Fellow and writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua.) Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that…
By Rick Kohn [Rick Kohn is a professor of Animal Science at the University of Maryland. His interests include evaluating and implementing methods to decrease adverse environmental effects from animal agriculture including effects on air and water resources and climate change. Rick worked in Nicaragua in 1987-1988 as an internationalist with the Union of Farmers…
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, and organizes study trips to Nicaragua through the Casa Ben Linder in Managua. If you are interested, contact her at <becca@jhc-cdca.org>. She lives with her family in Ciudad Sandino.) For the past five years, I have told foreigners visiting Nicaragua: “Don’t…
By Dan Kovalik and John Perry [This article was first published in Monthly Review Online on April 12, 2023, and then in Counterpunch on April 14.] (Daniel Kovalik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. John Perry is a COHA…
Produced by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition The 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua has been in the mainstream media lately but the coverage has been completely one-sided and does not reflect the horrors inflicted on the population by the coup mongers with money and training from the US. April 18 was the fifth anniversary of the…
By Sara Flounders [Sara Flounders is an organizer and the author of ten books. She is a Contributing Editor of Workers World Newspaper, Co-Director of International Action Center, helps coordinate the UNAC – United National Antiwar Coalition and the SanctionsKill Campaign. She is Editor and a co-author of the book SANCTIONS – A Wrecking Ball…
By John Perry (John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and elsewhere.) [This article was first published in Covert Action Magazine.] A biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting the Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard…
By Becca Renk [This article was first published by LAProgressive on March 4, 2023.] (Becca Renk has worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, and organizes study trips to Nicaragua through the Casa Ben Linder in Managua. She lives with her family in Ciudad Sandino.) “We are not typical Catholics,” explains Yamil Ríos of…
