[Originally from Idaho, Becca Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for more than 20 years, working in sustainable community development with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. Becca coordinates the Casa Benjamin Linder solidarity project in Managua.] “Yes, I’m Nicaraguan,” answers the gray-haired man in the seat next to me…
By Jill Clark-Gollub (This article was first published by the Orinoco Tribune on July 11, 2024.) [Rita Jill Clark-Gollub is active with the Maryland-based solidarity group Friends of Latin America and serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. She organizes study tours to Nicaragua and has published articles on Nicaraguan issues in independent news…
By Nan McCurdy (Nan McCurdy is the author/editor of NicaNotes.) “Here no one surrenders. The youth order, the people command, and Daniel obeys.” This is how President Daniel Ortega began his speech, to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, on July 19, 1979. Some 20,000 national guests and numerous…
By James Phillips (James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist who has been a student of life in Nicaragua and Honduras for four decades. His most recent book on Honduras is Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration.) On the night before I was married in 1985, during the wedding rehearsal dinner, my…
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for more than 20 years, working in sustainable community development with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. Becca coordinates the Casa Benjamin Linder solidarity project in Managua.) The Story of Julia Chinamo “I realized when I was nine years old…
By John Perry [This article was first published in FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting).] (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.) When Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International…
By Katherine Hoyt (Katherine Hoyt lived in Nicaragua for 16 years. She is a retired Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network/Alliance for Global Justice and a current board member. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and is the author of The Many Faces of Sandinista Democracy among other publications.) [This article is taken from Thirty…
By Jeremy Kuzmarov (Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine and is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy. This article was published by CovertAction on March 25, 2024.) Carlos Alfaro León, 46, is a sports journalist who covers baseball and boxing matches for La Nueva Radio Ya, Nicaragua’s top rated radio station.…
By Francisco Javier Bautista Lara Francisco Javier Bautista Lara is a Nicaraguan political analyst and writer of fiction and nonfiction. He was a founder of the Sandinista Police in 1979 and has served in several government positions, including as ambassador to the Vatican. “Authentic religion is a source of peace and not of violence! No…
By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has lived in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, for more than 20 years, working in sustainable development with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. Becca and the JHC-CDCA recently hosted the Power & Protagonism: Women in Nicaragua Brigade. Find out how you can visit…
