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Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: Portugal’s Novo Banco Ordered to Return $1.5 Billion to Venezuela Venezuelan authorities have announced that Portuguese courts have ruled in favor of Venezuela and ordered Novo Banco to return $1.5 billion illegally seized from accounts belonging to the Venezuelan government, following the failed 2019 US-led regime change operation that attempted to oust…
By Nan McCurdy Time and again Nicaragua is showing other countries the importance of fighting for sovereignty, independence, peace and the well-being of its people. On June 27, 1986, the World Court condemned the United States for illegal war and aggression against Nicaragua and ordered the US to compensate Nicaragua for damages, estimated to run…
By Roger McKenzie [This article was originally published in the UK publication The Morning Star.] Returning to the UK from Nicaragua, the author asks why many progressives in the West feel qualified to denounce the Nicaraguan movement that is in a daily struggle against US imperialism. During my visit to Nicaragua to help celebrate the…
By Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman Last week, Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) was among the thousands of Nicaraguan citizens, youth and international delegates present at the 44th Anniversary celebration of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in Managua, Nicaragua. I was honored and ecstatic to be part of this shared space to rejoice in the sustained peace, prosperity…
It’s time to recognize and support Nicaragua’s achievements rather than undermine them with sanctions On June 8, 2023, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation that would extend the U.S. government’s authority to impose sanctions on Nicaragua through December 31, 2028! The bill is now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with…
By Richard Kohn [Rick Kohn is a professor at the University of Maryland and member of Friends of Latin America. Every fall he offers a seminar course titled “Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in Nicaragua” which also includes a travel-study experience in Nicaragua.] When Joe Biden was a Senator in the 1980s, he distanced himself from his Democratic…
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…
AFGJ Alert: Biden Administration’s nomination of Elliott Abrams to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy must be stopped! Sign on to send a letter to Biden and your Senators. Code Pink: Elliot Abrams – Tell your Senators to vote NO on his appointment! Send an email to your Senator. Ben Norton: Biden joins…
Biden nominates genocide supporter to diplomacy panel! President Joe Biden announced on July 3 that he would nominate Elliott Abrams to a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Abrams was a supporter of the worst human rights violations in Central America in the 1980s and has been guilty of similar human rights…
