Our collective provides people’s movements with the tools and resources needed for true liberatory change. Our work is broader and further reaching than it ever has been before, and we need your support! by James Jordan The victory of the popular movements in Colombia that brought President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Marquez is…
By Becca Renk [Becca Renk has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001 with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA also works to educate visitors to Nicaragua, including through their hospitality and solidarity cultural center at Casa Benjamin Linder. This article…
Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: Venezuela Gold Case: Queen Elizabeth Recognizes Maduro, Central Bank President Reveals August 5 the Venezuelan government presented diplomatic letters signed by Queen Elizabeth II addressed to President Nicolás Maduro, in which the Queen recognizes Maduro as the head of state and government of Venezuela. The president of the Central Bank of Venezuela…
Cuba Granma: The hypocrisy of the Assange case If WikiLeaks had revealed the war horrors of any other country, Assange would be a hero, not a criminal. Or if any other nation were moving land and sea to secure the extradition of a journalist who revealed civilian deaths, acts of torture and clandestine military operations…
Vijay Prashad: Latin America’s Fourth Left Wave Since the Cuban Revolution is Social Democratic In the first wave, inspired by the example of the socialist Cuban Revolution, wave after revolutionary wave has flooded Latin America with hope against US imperialism and for a left-wing breakthrough.The first wave was crushed by extreme violence against the…
By Barbara Larcom (Barbara Larcom is the coordinator of Casa Baltimore Limay, a Baltimore, MD-based friendship project linked with San Juan de Limay, in the Esteli Department of Nicaragua. With Nan McCurdy, she is also the co-organizer of the monthly Nicaragua Webinars series. She has visited Nicaragua regularly since 1989.) My government in the United…
NICARAGUA WEBINAR Hosted by ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE “Reporting Back: Celebrating the 43rd Anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution” Sunday, July 24 View and Share the Webinar HERE On July 19, the people of Nicaragua celebrated 43 years since the Sandinista triumph over the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Solidarity advocates of all ages…
The New Wave of Latin American Progressive Governments Resumen Latinoamericano: The Pink Tide Surges in Latin America Prospects for hemispheric progressivism again began looking bullish with Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) victory in July 2018 after two previous attempts at the Mexican presidency, which were widely considered fraudulently stolen from him. A left turn by…
Translation and Commentary by Nan McCurdy Omar Cabezas’ book about being a Sandinista guerrilla fighter in the mountains of Nicaragua in the mid-1970s, La montaña es algo más que una immensa estepa verde [The Mountain is More than Just an Immense Green Steppe], is incredibly moving and made this reality so real for me when…
Alex Saab hails Venezuela on its Independence Letter to President Maduro and Venezuelan people: “only great managers demonstrate their ability when there is no liquidity, as our President Nicolas Maduro and his government have done, surviving these sanctions in an exemplary manner… This [US] big stick and its unbridled intervention in the affairs of other…
