By Diana Bohn Diana Bohn is a long-time Nicaragua activist in California’s Bay Area and she is a former chair of the board of the Alliance for Global Justice. I’m responding to Chuck’s request for contributions from others whose lives were changed by their first visit to Nicaragua. I, too, had my heart grabbed by…
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Nicanotes: Fr. Joe Mulligan: Revolutionary Priest
By John Kotula “But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: Senators, You Need to Deny the NICA Act
By Brian Willson The NICA Act, which would attempt to cut Nicaragua off from multilateral loans (World Bank, IMF, etc.), which passed the House several months ago has been introduced in the Senate with the surprise backing of Democratic Senators Leahy (VT) and Durbin (IL) which greatly increases its chances of passage. The Alliance for…
Honduras, NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: El Güegüense, The Character of the Nicaraguan People
By John Kotula For the last few months I have been going to Diriamba to study with Marlon Flores. He is teaching me to carve traditional wooden masks used in Nicaraguan folk dances. Marlon is a wood carver, folklorists, flautist, choreographer, and community organizer. He is a key person in the annual Festival of Saint Sebastian in…
Chuck Kaufman, NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: Three Decades Ago, Picking Coffee Changed my Life
Honduras, NicaNotes Newsletter, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: US policies Toward Honduras and Nicaragua: Hypocrisy on Display
By John Kotula The situation in Honduras is chaotic and changing rapidly. Things may be quite different by the time this is read. At the moment (December 9, 2017), the country is in a deep, deadly crises brought on by apparent election fraud. The incumbent, Juan Orlando Hernandez, is almost certainly using his control of…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: To Die for Others
By John Kotula Over the last couple of weeks, I have lent a hand on the restoration of a mural on the long wall in front of the Ajax Delgado municipal police headquarters in Managua. This large complex is named after a student activist who fought against the Somoza regime and was murdered on September…
Chuck Kaufman, NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
NicaNotes: Nicaraguans Lose TPS: Outrageous and Yet a Back-Handed Compliment
By Chuck Kaufman A couple of weeks ago, the Trump administration announced that Nicaraguans in the US would no longer have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allowing them to stay legally and to work in the US. First extended when Hurricane Mitch devastated Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador in 1998, Nicaragua was the first country to lose TPS status during an overall review…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: Nicaragua “Under My Skin” Mike Alewitz’ story
By John Kotula One of the many accomplishments of Gioconda Belli, former revolutionary, novelist, poet, memoirist, was to capture in a single phrase – “the country under my skin” – what Nicaragua means to so many people. Nicaragua can really become a part of you and be in you even if you are far away…
NicaNotes Newsletter, Nicaragua, Uncategorized
Nicanotes: Sandinistas Sweep Nicaragua Municipal Elections
By Katherine Hoyt Katherine Hoyt is the former National Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice. The results of Nicaragua Municipal Elections on Sunday affirmed that voters credit the Sandinista party for the country’s stability and economic progress. The elections were accompanied by two different international teams of observers and over 5,000 internal monitors.…