Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s Joys And Sorrow: The Coup That Failed

October 4, 2019 Kathryn Albrecht, Heading South published AFGJ Nica Notes Educate! Nicaragua, US Regime Change

Whose idea was this flopped coup, anyway? Let’s follow the money back to 2010 — the year before Daniel Ortega’s first presidential reelection. Covert Washington funding, meant to illegally influence foreign elections, began flowing to Nicaragua, in hopes of strengthening candidates opposing Ortega. But he won by a landslide. By 2014 — the run-up to the next presidential campaign — USAID (under the CIA) was divvying up lots more dough, quietly focusing a more complex project upon largely unwitting Nicaraguans. The objective, of course, was regime change — however long that might take.

The Other Nicaragua, Empire And Resistance

October 4, 2019 Yorlis Gabriela Luna, Coha.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nicaragua, US Imperialism

For those who live in Nicaragua, it is well known that there is a dominant narrative about the political conflict that took more than 200 lives in 2018. The hegemonic version, repeated by human rights organizations and private media outlets from Managua to the halls of power in Washington, describes an almost complete “dictatorship” that, when faced with citizen protesters, responded with waves of violent repression aimed primarily at students and journalists, leaving hundreds of peaceful protesters dead.

Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution Is Still Thriving, After 40 Years

August 24, 2019 Max Blumenthal, Thegrayzone.com Educate! History, Latin America, Nicaragua, Sandinista, US Imperialism

MAX BLUMENTHAL: We’re here in Managua’s Plaza Central, where you can see behind me hundreds of thousands of people gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Front’s victory over the dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and the victory of the Sandinista party and the elected government over a US-backed coup last year. One year ago, a regime change attempt orchestrated by US-funded media and political groups turned parts of Nicaragua into flashpoints of conflict, as armed men at roadblocks attempted to shut the country down.

The Rise And Fall Of Nicaragua’s ‘Human Rights’ Organizations

August 22, 2019 John Perry, Afgj.org Educate! Human Rights, Latin America, Nicaragua

When political conflict results in people being killed – especially at the hands of a government – the deaths are not just personal tragedies, they are propaganda material. This happened during last year’s attempted coup in Nicaragua: the alleged death toll was repeated in practically every international media report and invariably blamed on the Ortega government, its police or supporters. A year after the violence ended, not only have the ‘human rights’ bodies whose reports gave the figures credibility begun to tell the truth about what they did, they’ve also started to fall apart as the supply of dollars dries up.

Nicaraguan ‘Human Rights’ Director Accused By Staff Of Massive Theft Of US Taxpayer Money, Death Toll Inflation

August 3, 2019 Nan McCurdy, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Corruption, Nicaragua, Taxes

A year after a US-backed coup attempt rocked Nicaragua, a major scandal is unfolding over the alleged theft of half a million dollars in US taxpayer money by an organization at the center of the destabilization effort. Three board members of the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) have denounced their former director, Álvaro Leiva, accusing him of stealing almost half a million dollars in funding provided by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy and other US soft power outfits.

A Gringo In The Plaza: 40 Years Of Sandinista Struggle

July 25, 2019 David Archuleta Jr., Afgj.org Educate! Class Struggle, History, Latin America, Nicaragua, Sandinista

Not even the mosquito-rich Managuan heat could stop the onrush of Nicaraguans from every department in the country to the Plaza de la Fe. They came adorned with FSLN hats, #danielsequeda t-shirts, red and black on every possible accessory. Thousands came by bus, cramming every seat and even filling over the entire length of the roof. There were vendors sweating, vying for eye contact to sell mangos and fresco de tamarindo, even entire teams dedicated to swooping every aluminum can and plastic bottle the moment you dropped it on the ground.

‘US Economic Terrorism Will Backfire’: Iranian Foreign Minister Calls For Unity In Nicaragua

July 24, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Nicaragua, Sanctions

The Grayzone reports from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution that ousted a US-backed dictatorship. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has just arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela, where he was attending the international summit of the new Non-Aligned Movement, where Iran, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, among other nations, were discussing ways to get around crippling US sanctions that are being imposed on all of these countries. We asked Minister Zarif several questions about the US economic warfare and the recent seizure of several oil tankers.

Nicaragua Celebrates 40th Anniversary Of Revolution Against Samoza

July 20, 2019 Nan McCurdy, AFGJ Educate! Nicaragua, Somoza

Nicaragua celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Day of Happiness when the US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza fled Nicaragua in the early morning hours. The final offensive against Somoza and the feared National Guard was led by the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), in great measure a bunch of teenagers and young adults with excellent leadership. It lasted about two months – after decades of fighting the forty-five-year dictatorship of a father and two sons.

A Year After Nicaragua’s Coup, The Media’s Regime-Change Deceptions Are Still Unraveling

July 17, 2019 John Perry, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Latin America, Media, Nicaragua, Regime Change

Last year’s failed coup in Nicaragua erupted when student protests against social security reforms quickly turned into an armed attempt to bring down the government of Daniel Ortega. The regime-change attempt was a battle for people’s minds as well as for control of the streets. Violence was used to terrorize government supporters, but it was even more important as a propaganda vehicle. A journalist shot while on camera, demonstrators hit by sniper fire, or an arson attack on a family home were all high-profile crimes that were immediately blamed on the government.

Book Review: Live From Nicaragua: Uprising Or Coup? A Reader

July 10, 2019 Roger Stoll, Popular Resistance Educate! coup, Nicaragua

Live From Nicaragua: An Uprising Or A Coup, is a collection of writings, which the editors call a “Reader,” includes some of the most important essays, investigative journalism, interviews and first-hand accounts of the war that have yet appeared. It is a thoughtful and multifaceted collection of news, analysis and historical pieces covering a highly significant event in modern revolutionary and anti-imperialist history.

NicaNotes: Live From Nicaragua – Our Continued Serialization

June 27, 2019 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change, US Imperialism

This week we continue our irregular serialization of Live From Nicaragua: Uprising or Coup?, the electronic coup reader Alliance for Global Justice posted in April with a lot of help from our friends including over 20 authors and several editors. You can download the book in pdf or two different e-book formats here. Previously we serialized my Introduction to the book and are currently working through Brian Willson and Nils McCune’s thumbnail history of US intervention in Nicaragua. This week we include Brian’s personal account of the period from January 1986 to the February 1990 electoral defeat.

Peace Prevails In Nicaragua

June 20, 2019 Jorge Capelan, Tortillaconsal.com Resist! Latin America, Nicaragua, United Nations

June 14, Nicaragua was elected member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). This honor was probably based on Nicaragua’s development and poverty reduction over the last decade. This council of 54 countries from all regions of the world, created in 1945, is one of the six main organs of the UN and is responsible for two major tasks: Promoting sustainable development and following up on the results of the major UN conferences and summits. 184 of the 193 member nations of the United Nations (190 voters) considered our country a worthy representative of Latin America in that forum.

Nicaragua: Forgiveness A Revolutionary Trait

June 17, 2019 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Educate! Class Struggle, History, Nicaragua

The willingness of the Sandinista government to go to almost any lengths to achieve national peace and tranquility, including pardoning the crimes of those in the opposition who killed, tortured, burned homes, schools, markets, and public buildings in last year’s failed coup attempt, is consistent with their historical record. Recall that the triumphant Sandinista revolutionary forces captured many of Somoza’s brutal National Guard. They were tried by courts and sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum penalty for any crime under Nicaraguan law then and now.

Country-By-Country Review Of Latin America Through 2021

June 9, 2019 By Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua, Venezuela

The fundamental factor affecting developments in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next five years, as elsewhere around the world, will be the progressive decline of US power and influence in the face of the new multipolar world led by China and Russia. Within the next two years, US power and influence is likely to be in such deep national economic and environmental crisis that its ruling corporate elites will have largely lost their still current ability to destroy readily the possibility of good outcomes for everyone else.

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