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…
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…
Video: The ALBA-TCP: First Fair Trade Agreement in the World & How the US Tried to Destroy it with Cuba Ambassador Igarza, Venezuela Deputy Minister Carlos Ron, and Nicaragua Minister of Commerce Jesus Bermudez Short webinar clips of the Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela officials on relations with China and Iran Al Mayadeen: Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela voice support…
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…
Press release For immediate release: June 20, 2023 Contact: Camille Landry Alliance for Global Justice (202) 540-8336, ext. 508 [email protected] Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) demands justice for Nicaragua and an end to the United States’ ongoing human rights abuses AFGJ calls attention to the United States’ crimes against humanity This June, The International People’s…
Iran President Raisi Visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba Orinoco Tribune: Iran and Venezuela Sign 25 Agreements in Caracas President Maduro on Iran’s President Raisi visit, “This visit marks a new milestone in a relationship that has been built from the brotherhood, from the cooperation of two peoples, of two countries that were born to…
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…
Nicaragua Webinar The View from the Ground: What We Experienced in Nicaragua in 2018 Sunday May 28, 2023 3pm Eastern, noon Pacific, 1pm Nicaragua, 8pm Greenwich/UK Register here! Please join us for this 90-minute webinar. The four speakers lived through the attempted coup, April – July 2018, and will describe how it has affected their current…
