Nicaragua

Meet The DC Think Tanks Impoverishing Masses Of Latin Americans

April 8, 2025 John Perry, The Grayzone. Educate! Cuba embargo, Ivan Duque, Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado, Nicaragua, Think Tanks, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. The US blockade of Cuba has been so destructive that one in ten Cubans have left the country. Sanctions have similarly deprived Nicaraguans of development aid worth an estimated $3 billion since 2018, hitting projects such as new water supplies for rural areas. Who formulates these devastating sanctions, covers up their real effects, works with politicians to put them into operation and promotes them in corporate media?

Nicaragua’s Opposition Media Welcome Trump’s New Tariffs

April 7, 2025 John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! Media, Nicaragua, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration

Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.” A minimum 10 per cent tariff on exports to the US will hit low-income countries throughout the region. But exports from Nicaragua have been saddled with an even higher tariff of 18 per cent. Delighted opponents of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government have blamed it, rather than Trump, for the country receiving this additional penalty. However, simple examination of the figures shows that Nicaragua’s tariff was calculated in the same way as every other country’s.

Veterans For Peace Delegation Visits Nicaragua

April 1, 2025 Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. Educate! Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, US Imperialism, Veterans for Peace

In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven members of Veterans For Peace (VFP) visited Nicaragua in mid-to-late March as an official VFP delegation. Veterans from five U.S. states flew to Nicaragua on March 19 for a week-long visit to community clinics, regional colleges, vocational schools, youth groups and mayors in several Nicaraguan cities, including the capital Managua, Matagalpa, Masaya and Ciudad Sandino. The veterans were most impressed to learn that Nicaragua, the third poorest country in the western hemisphere, is providing free, high quality healthcare and education for all its people.

Nicaragua Ranks Highest In Gender Equity In The Americas

March 20, 2025 Jameela Alexander, Kenneth Yale, Deanna Risser, and Geraldine Cawthorne, Popular Resistance. Educate! Gender Equity, Health Care, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, Socialism

If you asked 100 people in the U.S. or the U.K. to name the country leading gender equity in the Americas, it’s unlikely anyone would correctly answer Nicaragua. This lack of awareness reflects the success of a decades-long imperialist campaign to discredit and undermine Nicaragua’s remarkable achievements since the 1979 revolution. The U.S has continuously attempted to destroy the Sandinista revolution, from the contra wars, through active support for the 16 years of neo-liberal government, to the 2018 attempted coup, and the current punitive economic sanctions.

‘Biased’ UN Report Ignores Victims Of US-Backed Opposition Violence

March 6, 2025 John Perry, The Grayzone. Educate! Coups, Daniel Ortega, Human Rights, Marco Rubio, Nicaragua, UNHRC, United Nations, US Imperialism

Masaya, Nicaragua – Reynaldo Urbina rides his motorbike around the streets of Masaya, Nicaragua, with agility, despite having only one arm. Nearly seven years ago, at the height of a US- supported coup attempt against Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinista government, Urbina was one of those guarding the city’s municipal warehouse when it was attacked by around 200 armed protestors. Warned of the impending attack, the guards had been ordered to hide their weapons and not resist capture, to minimize casualties.

Nicaragua Withdraws From United Nations Human Rights Council

March 2, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Human Rights, Nicaragua, Propaganda, United Nations

The Nicaraguan government announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in protest against the falsehoods and slanders against the country perpetrated at the institution. In a statement issued on Thursday, February 27, the Nicaraguan authorities stated that the UNHRC has become a platform for those who are attempting to destabilize Nicaragua and are the perpetrators of numerous murders, abductions, and violations of human rights of the Nicaraguan people. The statement further stressed that the report against the Nicaraguan authorities by the self-styled group of “experts” is evidence of the double standards and politicization of the multilateral mechanisms where human rights are being weaponized.

Is USAID A ‘Criminal Organization?’

February 26, 2025 John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. Educate! Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Nicaragua, US Imperialism, USAID

U.S. President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation? One “beneficiary” of USAID is Nicaragua, a country with one of the lowest incomes per head in Latin America. Between 2014 and 2021, USAID

Development Banker Says US Knew Of Plot To Oust Him Over Nicaragua Loans

January 23, 2025 John Perry, The Grayzone. Educate! Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), CSIS, Daniel Ortega, Global Americans, National Endowment for Democracy, Nicaragua, Ryan Berg, Sandinistas, World Bank

After Nicaragua suppressed a violent US-backed 2018 coup d’etat which saw hundreds of deaths, Washington enacted the “Nica Act” sanctions bill in 2018, which largely succeeded in cutting off the country’s funding from international institutions such as the World Bank. According to Nicaragua’s former finance minister, the sanctions had two immediate effects: First, the World Bank stopped financing anti-poverty projects in Nicaragua, meaning that the poorest communities lost funding of around US$500 million annually.

20 Years After His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous

December 31, 2024 Belén Fernández, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Assassination, Gary Webb, History, Journalists, Media, Nicaragua

Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression. The subject of the 2014 film Kill the Messenger, Webb had left the newspaper in 1997 after his career was systematically destroyed because he had done what journalists are supposed to do: speak truth to power. In August 1996, Webb penned a three-part series for the Mercury News (8/18–20/96) that documented how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the right-wing, CIA-backed mercenary army responsible for helping to perpetrate, to borrow Noam Chomsky’s words, “large-scale terrorist war” against Nicaragua.

Human Rights = Right To Live!: Sanctions Kill! Webinar December 10

December 8, 2024 Workers World. Organize! Cuba, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Palestine, Sanctions, Solidarity, US Sanctions, Venezuela

On International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, learn how U.S. sanctions violate human rights, with speakers from Palestine and diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Also speaking will be representatives of the Sanctions Kill / Americas Without Sanctions Campaign and Zone of Peace. Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being. As this Human Rights Day approaches, we are horrified that the genocidal terror on Gaza is not only continuing but spreading throughout the region.

From Venezuela To Palestine, US-Imposed Sanctions Are A Crime

December 3, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Cuba, Human Rights, International Law, Nicaragua, Palestine, US Sanctions, Venezuela

December 10 is the anniversary of the signing of the United Nations' Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Organizers with the Americas Without Sanctions campaign are holding an event (in-person and virtual) in Washington, DC to raise awareness of the US's illegal economic war on one-third of the world's population on Human Rights Day. See SanctionsKill.org for details. Clearing the FOG speaks with Barbara Larcom of the International Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and Cheryl LaBash of the National Network on Cuba about the event and the current crises facing Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as a result of US sanctions on them and how these are connected to the liberation of Palestine.

Biden Declares ‘National Emergency’ Over Threat Posed By Tiny Nicaragua

November 26, 2024 John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! Joe Biden, Nicaragua, US Imperialism, US Sanctions

In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Presumably he agreed that it does, because he renewed its status as a “national security threat” for a further year, repeating the designation that first began under the last Trump presidency. As figures from the Latin America Security and Defense Network show, this “threat” comes from a state which spends less of its national income on defense than almost any other country in the hemisphere.

Latin American Governments Pay A Price For Challenging Israel’s Genocide

November 3, 2024 John Perry, CovertAction Magazine. Educate! Colombia, Coups, Genocide, Honduras, International Solidarity, Israel, Latin America, Nicaragua, Palestine

Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and several of those which have done so suddenly face new threats, even including attempted coups. Adrienne Pine, a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, said during a recent webinar hosted by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition that “anybody who stands with Palestine is going to be attacked in Latin America by the U.S. and by Zionists.” Recent events appear to show the truth of her remarks.

Applying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution To Latin America

October 17, 2024 Steve Ellner, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, BRICS, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Gramsci, Honduras, Latin America, Nicaragua, Passive Revolution, Pink Tide, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The second wave of progressive Latin American governments that began with the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico in 2018 does not have the aura of excitement surrounding the first, dating back to Hugo Chávez in 1998. It is not only characterized by pragmatism, but lacks the slogans and banners of radical change associated with Chávez and Evo Morales. As stated by former Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in the face of challenges from an aggressive right, the second-wave left “turned up to the fight in an already exhausted state.”

Global South Denounces Genocide; Nicaragua Ends Relations With Israel

October 13, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Benjamin Netanyahu, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Haaretz, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Sandinistas, South Africa, Venezuela

More and more countries in the Global South are cutting relations with Israel, accusing it of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. United Nations experts have stated that there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide … has been met”, adding that “the genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians”. Scientific experts have estimated that 186,000 Palestinians will die due to Israel’s war of extermination on Gaza, representing roughly 8% of the population of the densely populated strip.

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