Nicaragua

Nicaragua: How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered A US-Targeted Nation

July 11, 2020 Stefan Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. Educate! Human Rights, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

During the Nicaraguan coup attempt and ever since it failed, the North American and European human rights industry has falsely accused the Nicaraguan authorities of having brutally repressed peaceful opposition protests with disproportionate lethal violence. In doing so, reports by human rights organizations have systematically ignored numerous very serious crimes and even massacres by Nicaragua's US-supported right-wing opposition and their allies. Between April 18th and July 17th, 2018, 23 police officers were killed by opposition activists and 400 officers suffered gunshot wounds inflicted by opposition gunmen. Reports by Western human rights organizations have concealed that deliberate lethal opposition violence by systematically suppressing conventional witness testimony, documentary evidence, and audiovisual material.

Feeding The People In Times Of Pandemic

June 23, 2020 Rita Jill Clark-Gollub, Erika Takeo, and Avery Raimondo, COHA. Create! Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Nicaragua, Pandemic

In its 2019-2023 Strategic Plan for Nicaragua, the United Nations World Food Program said that “In the last decade… Nicaragua is one of the countries that has reduced hunger the most in the region,” while the government reports that chronic child malnutrition dropped from 21.7 percent in 2006 to 11.1 percent in 2019 for children under 5 years of age. Nicaragua was also one of the first countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal Number 1 of cutting undernutrition in half from 2.3 million in 1990-1992 to 1 million in 2014-2016, placing it among the countries of the region that had reduced hunger the most in the previous 25 years. Vitamin A deficiency among children under 5 was also eliminated. Nicaragua’s advances are reflected in the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Hunger Map.

US-Led Nicaraguan Opposition Inflates COVID19 Death Lists

June 15, 2020 By Nan McCurdy, Popular Resistance. Educate! Corporate Media, COVID-19, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

The US is still trying to overthrow the democratically elected president of Nicaragua who won with 72% of the vote – this time it is a Covid-19 related coup attempt. The US-led opposition is utilizing doctors instead of students to kill off Sandinistas by falsely claiming Sandinista doctors have died and by claiming that all deaths are from Covid-19 because they allege “the health system has collapsed.” They learned well in the 2018 coup attempt that deaths are a necessity if you want a lot of favorable media coverage in the corporate press, as well as interest from readers. Macabre? Yes, but true. They are spreading false information about deaths in Nicaragua. In the government’s weekly report on Covid-19 cases, recuperated patients and deaths on June 9, there were fewer cases in the previous week and many fewer deaths than in the June 2 report of the previous week and many more people who had recuperated. This means Nicaragua is past the peak and Covid-19 will soon be an illness of the past.

Nicaragua Battles COVID-19 And A Disinformation Campaign

June 1, 2020 John Perry, Council On Hemispheric Affairs. Educate! COVID-19, health, Media, Nicaragua

Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. The world’s poorer countries face the toughest challenge, because a high proportion of their populations engage in a daily struggle to earn enough to eat, whether in small businesses or the informal economy. In Nicaragua, around 80% of people make their living in this way. But there are two more problems uniquely affecting Nicaragua in tackling the pandemic. One is that its economy and social life had already been attacked only two years ago when a right-wing coup attempt closed much of the country down for nearly three months. The second problem is that the opposition, thwarted in their coup attempt, has seized the COVID-19 epidemic as a new weapon with which to attack the government. They have deliberately sown fear and suspicion among the Nicaraguan population, so that many people are not only scared of the virus but even of using the public health services

Special Edition: Sanctioned Countries Speak Out On COVID-19

May 26, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast COVID-19, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Sanctions, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

On May 9, 2020, the Sanctions Kill coalition based in the United States held the first in a series of webinars on the United States' illegal economic coercive measures imposed on 39 countries and one-third of the global population. This webinar featured representatives from six countries: Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela and Iran. Each of these targeted countries shares common struggles to maintain their sovereignty and provide basic necessities for their people while trying to build new forms of governance in the face of aggression and interference from the United States. It is rare to hear directly from government representatives from targeted countries in the United States and it is important for us to understand what is happening in a way the corporate media will not provide. The second webinar is on Sunday, May 31 at 1:00 pm Eastern.

Food Sovereignty Policy Prevents Hunger In Nicaragua

May 14, 2020 Yorlis Luna, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Create! Food Sovereignty, Hunger, Nicaragua, Propaganda

Today, thanks to our peasant families and the public policies of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is no longer on the hunger map. Instead, we are well on the way to food sovereignty because our food production is local and it is distributed in small clusters—even more true if one considers the size of the country. For this reason, there is enough food in Nicaragua at this difficult time, and prices have remained stable or fallen slightly. The country’s peasant culture, and its talent and capacity to work in harmony with the earth, ensures that the words of President Daniel Ortega last month will remain true: “We will not die of hunger.” The first round of planting is about to start and farm families are lovingly preparing for it.

Nicaraguan Opposition Misrepresents Government Response To COVID-19

April 19, 2020 John Perry, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Educate! COVID-19, health, Media, Nicaragua, US coup

The right-wing opposition in Nicaragua, having failed in their attempted coup in 2018, still looks at any potential crisis as a new opportunity to attack the Sandinista government. Their latest chance, of course, arrived with the coronavirus pandemic. Even though the virus has barely hit the country yet, the government is under attack. The international media are lapping up opposition propaganda and ignoring or disparaging the government’s efforts to deal with the coming crisis, even though preparations began before those in many other countries. Since early April, Nicaragua’s well-connected opposition leaders have used their contacts in the international press to push a series of stories relating to the pandemic. These stories – detailed below – variously claim that President Daniel Ortega is in quarantine or has died, that his government is in denial about the coronavirus or that it is ill-prepared and inactive in the face of the threat. None of this is true.

Nicaragua: President Ortega Declares ‘It Is Time To Swap Nuclear Weapons For Hospitals’

April 18, 2020 Daniel Ortega, Tortilla con Sal. Educate! COVID-19, Nicaragua, Nuclear War, US Regime Change

April 15, 2020 - Good afternoon, Nicaraguan sisters and brothers, Nicaraguan families. First, our Solidarity and our Condolences to all the families who are suffering from the hardships of this pandemic, whose loved ones have died; others who are in serious condition, connected in ICUs; others in quarantine. All are suffering and in great pain. This is a time that calls for solidarity and unity among the peoples of the World. And if we are called to show solidarity and unity as the peoples of the World, it means that we are being called to Peace. That is the first principle: Peace; to put an end to all types of war, to all types of aggression, against any people, and to cultivate Peace, to strengthen Peace. Because only a world at Peace will allow us, particularly the more developed countries, to create the conditions so that on this planet we do not face such dramatic situations like those in developed countries where there is a lack of beds and medical instruments, simply because the health services do not reach the people, do not reach the poor, do not reach the workers.

Nicaragua: US-Backed Opposition Exploits Pandemic To Create Chaos

April 14, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! COVID-19, Nicaragua, Sanctions, US Regime Change

Managua, Nicaragua - The coronavirus pandemic has paralyzed the global economy, unleashing what is easily the worst crisis since the Great Recession of 2008, if not since the Great Depression of 1929. In Nicaragua, US-backed right-wing forces have exploited the pandemic to try to destabilize the democratically elected government, run by the leftist Sandinista Front (FSLN) and led by the party’s President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo. As soon as the Covid-19 crisis hit, the Donald Trump administration took the opportunity to escalate its economic war on Nicaragua, imposing a new round of US sanctions on the Sandinista government on March 5. Although Nicaragua has managed to contain the Covid-19 outbreak much better than its US-allied neighbors in other parts of Central America, where the infection rate is far higher, that has not stopped domestic opposition forces from trying to milk the crisis.

Nicaragua And Covid-19: The Secret Best Hidden By The Western Media

April 12, 2020 Jorge Capelán, Managua con Amor. Educate! COVID-19, Media, Nicaragua, Pandemic

One of the best-hidden secrets behind the cacophony of panic and media terrorism caused by the current Covid-2019 pandemic has been the way as successful as Nicaragua, a small and poor country in one of the regions most exposed to climate change in the planet has been stopping the arrival of the new coronavirus. With 6.5 million inhabitants, Nicaragua had until April 5 only 6 cases of Covid-19 (all imported), of which 3 were active, 2 were recovered and one, sick with AIDS, had died. At the same time, it kept close surveillance on about 10 people who, despite having failed the tests, are still being monitored as a precaution. In comparison, in the Central American region, until that day there were 4,598 confirmed cases of Covid-19, of which 4,360 were active, 167 died and 71 recovered.

Billionaire-Backed Human Rights Watch Lobbies For Lethal US Sanctions

April 12, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Human Rights Watch, Nicaragua, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Human Rights Watch, the leading so-called rights organization in the United States, has actively lobbied for Washington to impose suffocating sanctions on leftist governments in Latin America. The group has even praised the Donald Trump administration for ramping up its aggressively destabilizing regime-change measures. NGOs like Human Rights Watch (HRW) depict targeted sanctions as a more palatable alternative to military action, although these measures are widely recognized by international legal experts to be a form of economic warfare that have led to the deaths of many thousands of civilians, destroyed the livelihoods of countless people, and devastated entire nations’ economies. As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, HRW operatives took credit for new sanctions the Trump administration had imposed on Nicaragua’s democratically elected leftist government.

Nicaraguans In Costa Rica: A Manufactured “Refugee” Crisis

March 26, 2020 By John Perry , Coha.org Educate! Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Refugees

The situation has mostly normalized in Nicaragua and yet the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is promoting an imminent refugee crisis narrative. 80% of the recent asylum requests came from people who had been living and working in Costa Rica without documents, before Nicaragua’s crisis of April 2018. In 2018 Costa Rica approved only six asylum claims...

US House Rams Through Nicaragua Regime-Change Bill With Zero Opposition

March 19, 2020 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change, US Imperialism

As the Donald Trump administration’s year-long coup attempt against Venezuela spirals out in failure, the US government has taken aim at Nicaragua with increasing ferocity, in a bid to topple its democratically elected, leftist Sandinista government. Washington’s pressure escalated further on March 9 when the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution in a voice vote without any opposition that demanded more sanctions...

International Media Uses Fake Journalist To Spread Disinformation About Nicaragua

March 14, 2020 Nora Mitchell and Nan McCurdy, Afgj.org Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua, Propaganda

On Feb. 20, 2020, Vox.com published a piece entitled “Burnt radio stations and 18-month newsprint blockades: Inside the slow culling of Nicaragua’s free press” that has multiple problems. The first of the many problems with this propaganda piece is that one of its authors – Carl David Goette Luciak – who initially came to Nicaragua to support anti-canal activists...

With Help From US Media, Nicaragua’s Coup-Mongers Aiming For Western Hearts And Minds

March 2, 2020 Nan McCurdy and Nora Mitchell, Popular Resistance Educate! Media, Nicaragua, US Regime Change

With its support tanking at home, Nicaragua’s opposition is seeking to win over public opinion in the West. A factually-challenged, distortion laden article in Vox by a familiar anti-Sandinista activist exhibited the campaign’s strategy. Having failed to depose Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega in their coup attempt in 2018, and having lost most of the support they briefly enjoyed within Nicaragua itself, opponents of the Sandinista government have changed their tactics. They’ve embarked on a long campaign aimed at governments and public opinion in the United States and in Europe to portray Ortega as a dictator who is curbing press freedoms and free speech, assaulting human rights and murdering opponents.

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