By Dorothy Granada (Dorothy Granada is a US-born peace activist and nurse who has lived and worked in Nicaragua for many years. She has been honored many times for her work with women and children by the Nicaraguan government, the Central American Parliament, and the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, among others. The hospital in Matiguas…
By Dirk Groenenberg (Dirk Groenenberg is a chemical-free farmer from Rusagonis, New Brunswick, Canada, and a member of solidarity groups such as the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network and Fredericton Palestine Solidarity. Here we combine two articles by Goenenberg that were published by NB Media Coop on July 29, 2024 and Sept. 13, 2024.) I recently…
By Katherine Hoyt [This article was first published by the Nicaragua Network on July 19, 2009, the thirtieth anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. We republish it now for the 45th anniversary.] (Katherine Hoyt is retired co-coordinator of the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice. She lived for 16 years in Nicaragua between 1966 and 1984.) Right…
By Coleen Littlejohn [This article is based on the presentation by Coleen Littlejohn as part of the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition webinar entitled “Nicaragua’s Historic and Ongoing Solidarity with Palestine” on May 19, 2024.] (Coleen Littlejohn is a retired development economist who first came to Nicaragua in early 1980 and has lived there for most of…
By Jonah Blaustein Jonah Blaustein lives in Maryland and has been a peace and justice activist since the 1970s. He has been learning about Nicaragua’s significant social and political achievements for the past several years. After so many years of calling or writing the United States Congress attempting to shift the political mind-scape of this…
By Katherine Hoyt [This article was published in Against the Current, July/August 1995, in the year of the centennial of Augusto Sandino’s birth. We republish it this week on the 90th anniversary of his death on February 21, 1934.] Katherine Hoyt is a retired National Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice. In retirement…
We have come to Nicaragua this week to see for ourselves the lived reality of the Nicaraguan people. We are here from the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. From July 18 to July 25 our delegation, organized by the Nicaragua Network, had the opportunity to visit Managua,Granada, Estelí and Masaya. We have seen the…
