By James Phillips (James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist and a former Jesuit with forty years as a student of Central America.) Gustavo Gutierrez died on October 22, 2024, in Lima, Peru, at the age of 96. His death will not occasion headlines in the world’s major news media, but it should. Gutierrez…
By John Perry (John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR, Covert Action Magazine and others. This article was originally published in Covert Action Magazine on Nov. 1, 2024.) Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide…
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 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 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 John Perry (John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR, Covert Action Magazine and others. This article was first published in Popular Resistance Magazine.) Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been…
By Fabrizio Casari [This article was first published in Spanish in El Digital 19 on August 17, 2024. It is translated here by Francisco Dominguez.] (Fabrizio Casari is an Italian journalist and political analyst.) The new law that will regulate the activities of non-governmental organizations in Nicaragua, outlining the contours of their functions, is called…
[This is another in our series of articles remembering the history of the movement in solidarity with the Nicaraguan Revolution. It recounts a day in the life of a British volunteer on a school building brigade forty years ago. It was first published by the UK’s Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign.] In 1984/5 the first Nicaragua Solidarity…
By James Phillips [James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist with forty years as a student of Central America. His most recent book is Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration (Lexington Books, 2022).] (This article was first published in CovertAction Magazine on July 1, 2024.) In Part 1 of this article, a brief outline…
