By John Perry (John Perry is a UK citizen who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on housing and migration issues and writes about those and other topics.) When political conflict results in people being killed – especially at the hands of a government – the deaths are not just personal tragedies, they are propaganda…
By Chuck Kaufman The willingness of the Sandinista government to go to almost any lengths to achieve national peace and tranquility, including pardoning the crimes of those in the opposition who killed, tortured, burned homes, schools, markets, and public buildings in last year’s failed coup attempt, is consistent with their historical record. Recall that the…
By John Perry John Perry UK citizen who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on housing and migration issues and writes about those and other topics covered in the Two Worlds blog. This piece was first published in the Two Worlds blog responding to a “news” show in the UK. Unfortunately it applies equally to…
By Jill Clark I met Zoilamérica Narváez in Nicaragua a few times in the 1980s. I found her to be an intelligent and personable young woman. I was later greatly saddened to learn of the sexual abuse allegations against her stepfather, Daniel Ortega. Then, as now, I had no reason to doubt the legitimacy of…
Telesur series: Venezuela Confronts US-backed Right-wing Coup From PBS (of all places) Why Venezuela’s Chavistas are fiercely loyal to Maduro, despite economic crisis Gloria La Riva: Dispatch from Venezuela: the government’s massive food distribution apparatus Vijay Prashad: Notes From the Streets of Venezuela—The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention Debunking Four Mistruths…
By Jill Clark-Gollub (Jill Clark-Gollub organizes study delegations to Nicaragua and has published in outlets including COHA, Popular Resistance, and Alliance for Global Justice.) [This article was first published in Counterpunch on March 3, 2023.] Hybrid warfare tactics, including information warfare and the co-opting of human rights groups, make it hard to tell the good…
By John Perry (John Perry is a writer from the United Kingdom who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua.) One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the…
July 5th 2020 By Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal Ever since January 2007, the Western human rights industry has attacked Nicaragua’s Sandinista government for being undemocratic and repressive. For over a decade, Nicaragua’s social and economic development and successive democratic elections repeatedly contradicted that mendacious narrative. Frustrated by Nicaragua’s embarrassing example of undeniable, sovereign, socialist-inspired social…
Media bias against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is unremitting, and international NGOs are feeding it by misreporting a violent land dispute in the Bosawás nature reserve. By John Perry (This article was originally published by Graystone Project, Feb. 19, 2020 https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/19/nicaragua-peace-media-international-ngos-violence-reporting/ Here’s a headline you won’t see in the corporate media: Nicaragua is at peace. After…
On Sunday of this publication week, the Empire succeeded in Bolivia, where it has failed in Nicaragua and Venezuela, to foment a coup against democratically-elected President Evo Morales. Morales resigned in an effort to avert further bloodshed and has been granted political asylum in Mexico. There are reports coming out of Bolivia of continued violence…
