Nicaragua

US And OAS Lobby For Nicaraguan ‘Political Prisoners’ Who Murder

March 1, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Nicaragua, OAS, State Violence, US coup

Jinotepe, Nicaragua – “It was wrong to let him out. Because maybe if he were locked up he wouldn’t have killed my niece,” Yadira Acevedo cried out, holding back tears. “What we are asking for is justice,” she continued as she showed me photos of the young woman, Ruth Aburto, on her cracked phone. On her niece’s killer, the message was simple: “He has to pay!” Were it not for the efforts of Nicaragua’s political opposition, or for pressure from the US government, Aburto would be alive today. Tragically, her boyfriend’s name appeared on a database of supposed “political prisoners” compiled by a top US government-backed opposition group.

Sanctions Kill! End US Sanctions On Nicaragua

February 28, 2020 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Resist! Latin America, Nicaragua, Trump Administration, US Sanctions

When we hear the word sanctions, most Latin America solidarity activists think immediately of Venezuela. But Nicaragua is also the target of unilateral coercive measures illegally imposed by the US and the most serious sanction, the NICA Act, can’t be blamed on the Trump regime since it was imposed by Congress. Unilateral sanctions are illegal under both the UN and OAS Charters.

While Nicaragua returns to peace, media and international NGOs conjure epidemic of violence with dubious reporting

February 22, 2020 John Perry, TheGrayZone.com Educate! Latin America, NGOs, Nicaragua, Propaganda

After the violent attempt to overthrow the government in 2018, which cost at least 200 lives, the country has largely returned to the tranquillity it enjoyed before. This is not only the impression that any visitor to Nicaragua will receive; it is confirmed by statistics: Insight Crime analysed homicide levels across Latin America in 2019 and showed that only three countries were safer than Nicaragua in the whole continent.

It Is Not Just Venezuela. Nicaragua Is Also An Objective Of Imperialism

February 17, 2020 Ramon Pedregal Casanova, Pacocol.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change, Venezuela

The violence began with a revolt in April 2018 and at the end, the gangs supported by the gringos had left hundreds of dead and wounded, destruction of public and private goods, and demolished the tourism sector, which was one of the largest sources of income of the nation. The fascists had sought with the US hand to break the legs of Nicaragua's social progress. To date, the economic, social and political recovery is evident.

NACLA’s Shameless Apology Of US Imperialism In Nicaragua

February 17, 2020 By Camilo Mejia, Popular Resistance Educate! NED, Nicaragua

In line with previous coverage of the 2018 crisis, NACLA’s latest article, The Anti-Sandinista Youth of Nicaragua, once again provides cover and legitimacy to the fascist regime change operation financed by the U.S. via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and their affiliated agencies, which provided the funding that fueled the crisis. Anyone who finds such an assertion outrageous can read an article by the NED itself, published by The Global American, whose title says it all: Laying the Groundwork for Insurrection: a closer look at the U.S. role in Nicaragua’s social unrest.

US/EU Coup Attempt In Nicaragua Continues

February 8, 2020 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua

A far-right opposition figure in Nicaragua has boasted that the country’s unpopular opposition forces are meeting with representatives from the US embassy and European Union, who have pledged them support in their bid to oust the ruling leftist Sandinista Front government. According to this rightist Evangelical leader, the US government and EU are pressuring Nicaragua’s badly divided opposition to unite in the lead-up to the 2021 election, with the goal of unseating the Sandinistas.

Film: Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond

February 5, 2020 Dan Kovalik, Camera Viva Resistance Report Nicaragua, US coup

Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond (50 min.) is a documentary film that explores the troubling events of the summer of 2018 in which much of Nicaragua was enveloped in chaos and violence. The film, which includes interviews with Nicaraguans from Managua, Leon, Grenada and the rural town of Santa Teresa, as well as with ex-pats who moved to Nicaragua to support the revolutionary process there, paints a very different picture than that presented in the mainstream press. The film shows that the Sandinista government, far from being the villain in the events of 2018, acted in a restrained and cautious way to confront a counter-revolutionary movement, funded from abroad, which attempted to sew violence and chaos to topple the government and destroy the Sandinista Revolution. The film also shows generally how the Sandinista Revolution, begun in 1979, changed people’s’ lives for the better and how it continues to be a viable and effective force 40 years later.

Poll Shows Nicaraguans Have Consigned The Coup To The Dustbin Of History

January 18, 2020 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change

The latest poll by independent M&R Consultants covering the last quarter of 2019, shows that less than two years after the failed coup attempt of April-July, 2018, the Sandinista government, led by President Daniel Ortega is more popular than ever and all but a tiny minority of Nicaraguans reject the violent tactics and street blockades used by the US-supported opposition. In the face of these poll numbers it is hard to maintain any credibility for the opposition and corporate media narrative that says Ortega is a dictator, the police are repressing the people, and that Nicaragua is collapsing into a failed state.

The Slow Death Of Investigative Journalism

December 24, 2019 Two Worlds. Educate! Investigation, Media, Nicaragua, Seymour Hersh

The title of Seymour Hersh’s memoir is simply Reporter. It’s what he did and what he does: dig out and report important facts that need to be seen in the daylight, no matter how much the CIA, a US vice-president or secretary of state, or a mafia boss, may want to keep them hidden. Hersh, as the editor of the New Yorker says on the book’s cover, is ‘quite simply the greatest investigative journalist of his era’. It was Hersh who uncovered the facts of the My Lai massacre that occurred in Vietnam in 1968, and revealed not only the full horror of what took place but also that the officer named as the culprit, Lieutenant William Calley, was operating in a context where such treatment of Vietnamese civilians was tolerated and even expected.

Sanctions Kill. Join AFGJ And Nicaraguan Farmers To Fight The Blockade Of Venezuela

December 19, 2019 Chuck Kaufman, AFGJ Create! economic sanctions, Nicaragua, Venezuela

The Manitos Children’s Fund raises money in North America (US and Canada) to buy food from Nicaraguan cooperatives to donate for children’s nutrition in Venezuela. But there’s a lot more to the story than just the basics. The reason Venezuelan children need to have their nutrition supplemented is because the United States government is trying to overthrow their government, and the weapon of choice is unilateral coercive measures – sanctions – that are explicitly forbidden in the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS). Sanctions are sold to us as a more humane way to pressure other governments to bow to our will. But that is not true. Sanctions kill. In April 2019, Mark Weisbrot, director of Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Colombia University Economist Jeffrey Sachs released a report on the effects of sanctions on Venezuela. Their report revealed at least 40,000 more people died in 2017-18 under sanctions than died in a similar period before sanctions.

2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt of the Dispossessed

December 15, 2019 Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.

Nicaragua In 2019 Would Make Anyone Proud

November 29, 2019 Nan McCurdy, Afgj.org Educate! Class Struggle, Latin America, Nicaragua

Carlos Fonseca Amador, the founder of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation would have a lot to be proud of in 2019, 43 years after he died in battle with the Somoza National Guard. Nicaragua continues to be a country in solidarity with others as it showed November 6 at the United Nations when it denounced the hardening of the US blockade against Cuba, a blockade which only hurts the people. The three countries that did not vote against the blockade were the US, Israel and Brazil.

Why Nicaragua Is Under Attack

October 29, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Neoliberalism, Nicaragua, US coup

Latin America is in a revolt against neoliberalism and the austerity measures that go with it. Ecuador and Chile have had mass protests in recent weeks. Bolivia re-elected President Morales, who has put anti-neoliberal policies in place in his previous three terms. Argentina defeated its neoliberal president, Macri, in the recent election and Hondurans are mobilizing to defeat their current president. We speak with Camilo Mejia about Nicaragua where the US had a failed coup attempt last year and is continuing to try to overthrow President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Movement. Mejia helps us recognize the similar tactics being used in each of these countries and describes the real economic alternative that Nicaragua offers to the world, an alternative the capitalists don't want people to be aware of.

Nicaragua: Inside An Uprising Made In The USA

October 28, 2019 Gabriela Luna, Afgj.org Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua

In 2007, the U.S. redesigned its strategy in Nicaragua, dropping its financial support for political parties that had lost significant prestige due to their high levels of corruption (one of the highest in Latin America at the time), their neoliberal policies, and the disdain the governing classes openly displayed toward the working class. Instead, the U.S. began funding organizations that depicted themselves as aligned with social policies — beyond politics — to give the appearance of an “independent” civil society with a human face and without ties to a particular political party.

Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America

October 14, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, US Empire, Venezuela

Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of international finance, which is against the interests of people. After the embattled President of Ecuador claimed that President Nicolas Maduro was the cause of the massive protests against him, Maduro made clear what was occurring in Latin America, saying: “We have two models: the IMF model which privatizes everything and takes away the people’s rights to health, education and work; and the humanist-progressive model which is emerging in Latin America and has the Bolivarian Revolution at the forefront.”

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