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Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do

June 5, 2026 Roger D. Harris and Kelly Nelson, Popular Resistance. , , ,
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political motivation. This fact-impoverished rush to judgment reflects a more general bias of the US-aligned corporate press, which seeks to demonize Nicaragua and its Sandinista political leadership. The focus of the thinktank’s article is the death of Roberto Samcam, a former Nicaraguan army officer, exiled in Costa Rica.

Day Of The Internationalist Hero Announced In Nicaragua

May 1, 2026 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Under the shade tent in the schoolyard, staring solemnly ahead, stands a line of children wearing t-shirts with the image of the most famous North American in this mountainous Nicaraguan village. The picture on the t-shirt is not of a pop singer or a movie star, it’s the image of a skinny electrical engineer from Portland, Oregon: Ben Linder. “Benjamín Linder: ¡Presente! ¡Presente! ¡Presente!” The children call out, raising their little fists in the air to emphasize that Ben Linder's spirit is here with us today. Ben Linder moved to Nicaragua in 1983 to contribute his skills to the Sandinista Revolution.

Sawdust, Sunrise Singing And Solidarity: Holy Week In Nicaragua

April 10, 2026 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , ,
“I don’t like the music,” my daughter whispers to me. Suddenly, a cymbal crashes, followed by tuba and trombones droning a death dirge. I peer through the incense to make out the slow movement of men burdened by an impossibly heavy bier carrying the image of Christ crucified. It’s Good Friday, and we are watching the Holy Burial in the León Cathedral. “You’re not supposed to like it,” I tell her. “Jesus is dead, this is his funeral. The music is meant to fill you with dread and sadness.” In Nicaragua, a small country that has seen much suffering, Holy Week carries a special importance.

Amnesty International Defends US Regime-Change NGOs

April 1, 2026 John Perry and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. , , , , , , , ,
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.” Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking what it calls “civil society organizations.” But Amnesty ignores the history of many such organizations and therefore why governments might be justified in closing them. Here we focus on the report’s deficiencies in relation to Nicaragua, Venezuela (two NGOs interviewed in each) and Cuba (none).

UN ‘Experts’ Fueling Washington’s Attacks On Nicaragua

March 26, 2026 John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. , , ,
United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. Yet, for them, Nicaragua is “a giant prison” in which the Sandinista government “has effectively taken its own population hostage.” According to lawyer Jan-Michael Simon, the German leader of the group who is not known to have ever visited Nicaragua, its government is doing “exactly what the Nazi regime did.” Simon’s group of “experts,” which includes lawyers from Hungary and Uruguay, have now published a dozen UN-funded reports on Nicaragua, each with more exaggerated allegations than its predecessor.

‘Worthy Children Of Heroes, Martyrs:’ How Nicaragua Cultivates Peace

February 26, 2026 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , , , ,
“I thought they were going to kill us. The bullets were flying past our house, and I was so afraid a stray one would hit us,” Socorro tells me. She’s recounting a gang fight that took place more than a decade ago right outside the walls of mismatched metal sheeting that surround her garden near Managua. “My granddaughter was small at the time, I ran with her and hid behind a barrel, thinking it was full and that the water would help protect us. But the joke was on me, the barrel was empty!” Socorro cackles, today able to laugh at the narrow escape.

Nicaragua’s Economy ‘Weathers Multiple Shocks’ Including US Attacks

February 5, 2026 John Perry, Resumen English. , , ,
The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in the country’s growing prosperity – export earnings, trade relations and remittances (money sent by Nicaraguans living abroad) are vulnerable to US attacks. The IMF points out that US sanctions – more appropriately known as unilateral coercive measures – have severely restricted the help the country gets from multilateral bodies like the World Bank. Nicaragua’s relationship with the IMF is an odd one.

Nicaragua As A Regional Model

February 2, 2026 Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. , , ,
Nicaragua plays an essential role in the development of Central America not only because of its geographical position in the center of the isthmus but also because of the success of its revolutionary model of socio-economic democratization. Nicaragua has demonstrated that public policies for development focused on the needs of the human person yield better results than a neoliberal focus on corporate profits. Nicaragua's productive economy is highly competitive with the economies of its neighboring countries, while its public sector responds much better to the aspirations of the families of the vast majority of its population.

Nicaragua: The Challenge Of A People As President

January 27, 2026 Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. , , ,
For anyone who has witnessed Nicaragua’s development since the destruction and losses caused by the US terrorist war of the 1980s, the country has unquestionably become a dynamic modern society with strong social cohesion and a robust, competitive economy. Nicaragua is now entering the twentieth year of what people here call the second phase of the Sandinista Revolution. The country’s successful transformation is an outcome of the commitment of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), under the leadership of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

Why Nicaragua Is Not Washington’s Next War – Yet

January 22, 2026 John Perry and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington to destroy Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. Republican senator Rick Scott thinks now is the time to “fix” Nicaragua as well Cuba. Commentator James Bosworth, a cheerleader for US imperialism, asks, “Why hasn’t Trump gone after Ortega in Nicaragua?”

Sharing The Bounty: Cultural Celebrations In Nicaragua Give Back

December 10, 2025 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , ,
When 25-year-old Dayana Martinez graduated from university earlier this year and began applying for jobs in her field of graphic design, she made a promise to the Virgin Mary. For Martinez, who had been running her own printing business from home all through college, the chance to earn a steady salary and have health care and retirement benefits was important. “If I get a job, I will give toys to children in December.”  Martínez got the job she applied for and has been setting aside a portion of her salary since to fulfill her promise to the Blessed Virgin. She has purchased toys for 50 boys and 50 girls, and will give them to children in a rural village.

Nicaragua Tourism ‘Steals The Spotlight,’ Earning Punitive Measures From US

November 28, 2025 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , ,
“Nicaragua Steals the Spotlight in Global Tourism Fairs,” read a headline in Travel and Tour World on 15 November, highlighting Nicaragua’s performance at recent industry events in the United Kingdom, China, Germany, and Canada. “Nicaragua is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about destinations for international tourists,” the article gushed. Two days later on 17 November, the United States Embassy in Nicaragua announced new visa restrictions on representatives of Nicaraguan transportation companies, travel agencies, and tour operators. In a statement, the embassy claimed those affected had been “identified as knowingly facilitating illegal immigration to the United States.”

Did Germany Mislead The World Court?

November 23, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , , , ,
Since April 2024, Germany has been on trial before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Nicaragua had filed a case against the Federal Republic, accusing it of complicity in the genocide in Gaza. As has now become known, German representatives may have made false statements in their very first testimony before the ICJ in April 2024, concerning the arms exports delivered to Israel. As Drop Site News (DSN) and the liberal German magazine Stern reported in a joint article, there are now serious doubts about Germany’s statements. They cite comments from the German Defense Ministry, obtained through a press law procedure before a German administrative court.

United States Scrambles To Put Pressure On Nicaragua

November 1, 2025 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , ,
“We were already struggling with 18% tariffs this year, I don't know how we could export our coffee under 100% tariffs,” René Gaitan tells me as we watch the clouds clear out over a breathtaking expanse of Nicaraguan landscape. The view from the El Porvenir worker-owned coffee cooperative stretches from Lake Managua up toward the Honduran border, dominated by the smoking crater of the Telica volcano. Gaitán is the vice president of the 51-family cooperative. The co-op is remote; its members hike eight kilometers to get the bus to the city of León, a three-hour ride away. But the news on 20 October that the U.S. may impose 100% tariffs on the Central American nation reached the co-op with the lightning speed of the internet on Gaitan's smart phone, charged by solar panels.

Venezuelan Coup Leader Maria Corina Machado Vows To Privatize Oil

October 16, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , , , , , , ,
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was given to María Corina Machado, a far-right, pro-war Venezuelan opposition leader who has been funded by the US government for more than two decades. Machado has helped to lead numerous violent coup attempts in Venezuela, in 2002, 2014, 2017, 2019, and again today. She is now at the center of the US government’s regime-change war against Venezuela. In an interview with Donald Trump Jr. in February 2025, Machado made it clear that she wants to privatize Venezuela’s state-owned oil industry and sell off the South American nation’s natural resources to US corporations.
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