Inspiring Social and Economic Advances in Nicaragua By the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group links Nicaraguan and United Kingdom trade unions. Their web site is at https://www.nscag.org/) Since the election of President Ortega and the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) in 2006, Nicaraguan society has been radically transformed. After…
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for 22 years, working with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA has been in Nicaragua since 1994 working in sustainable community development and runs a full-time health clinic in Nueva Vida. The JHC-CDCA also…
By Dan Kovalik and John Perry (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 based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and elsewhere.) [Two previous…
By Roger McKenzie [This article was first published in The Morning Star of the United Kingdom. In this article, Roger McKenzie reports on an interview about Nicaragua’s education policies with Salvador Vanegas, adviser for education to President Daniel Ortega.] Salvador Vanegas, as the adviser for education to President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, plays a central…
By Marcel Osorto [This article was published on the web page of the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo on June 1, 2023. It was translated by Katherine Hoyt.] -Good morning, children! -Good morning, Mr. Director. -This day we have a special visitor from our sister country of Honduras, so I ask you to give him a…
By John Perry [John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and other outlets. Here he reports on an interview with Randall, a “historic fighter” from Nicaragua’s revolution against the Somoza dictatorship, about the attempted coup in 2018 and how the violence affected his…
By Fabrizio Casari [Fabrizio Casari is an Italian journalist who writes frequently about Nicaragua. This article was first published in Spanish on the webpage of Radio La Primerisima, June 4, 2023. Translation by Nan McCurdy] This Nicaraguan story that can be read in European or Latin American newspapers speaks of sacks full of money found…
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…
