Sandinista Revolution

When ‘Karens’ Flourished

October 13, 2021 Becca Mohally Renk, Jubilee House Community. Create! Cooperative, Neoliberalism, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

In 2001, my main task in Nicaragua was to be a "Karen": the obnoxious, entitled white woman who uses her privilege to get her way. Although I was only 25, I was able to lend my white face, my American accent and my pushy “get-me-your-manager” skills to women’s cooperatives to gain them access to and help them navigate the Nicaraguan bureaucratic system. This was during the neoliberal years in Nicaragua, a time when the women we worked with – poor, working women – were simply dismissed by virtually any institution. Following on the popular Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s led by grassroots movements, the neoliberal governments from 1990 to 2006 were led by oligarchical elites who not only looked to the U.S. embassy for policy guidance, but culturally deferred to the U.S. as well.

Nicaragua’s New Way

October 5, 2021 Becca Mohally Renk, Morningstar Online. Create! Neoliberalism, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, Socialism

In 1999, when I first came to Ciudad Sandino, a city of 180,000 located just outside Managua, Hurricane Mitch had recently created 2.7 million homeless people in Nicaragua and Honduras. The neoliberal government had pocketed the aid that came into the country. Ciudad Sandino had received 12,000 hurricane refugees who were living in black plastic tents, but those who had been living in Ciudad Sandino for decades weren’t in much better shape: most houses were walled with scrap wood and plastic. There was only one paved road in the city. Neighbourhoods had only sporadic access to water, no sewage system and most homes weren’t connected to the electrical grid with its frequent blackouts. The only hospital sat empty with no medicines or supplies. Children had to bring their own desks if they wanted to go to school.

What Does Health Care For All Look Like?

October 1, 2021 Becca Mohally Renk, Alliance For Global Justice. Create! Health Care, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, universal healthcare

I’d like you to imagine for a moment that you are the parent of a child with asthma, living in Ciudad Sandino, just outside the capital of Nicaragua, in a barrio called Nueva Vida, which was recently founded after your family – along with 1,200 other families – was flooded out of your home along the lakeshore in Managua during Hurricane Mitch. The year is 2001, and although your family now has a concrete house and the bus runs regularly down your street in the daytime, nights are filled with rival gangs throwing rocks and bottles, and regular work has been nearly impossible to find. These days, you travel into the market in Managua before dawn to wash potatoes for a vegetable seller; with what you earn, you can usually bring home a little food for your family’s lunch.

United States Once Again Attacking Government Of Nicaragua

September 26, 2021 Yader Lanuza, Popular Resistance. Educate! Elections, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, US Imperialism

Since the house arrest of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro’s daughter Cristiana Chamorro for money laundering and other crimes, the US and international assault against the Sandinista government has grown. This is the continuation of an ongoing attack against Sandinismo that began long before the US and its regime change agents took advantage of Chamorro’s arrest. Precisely because the coup d’état against the Sandinista government failed in 2018 we see a continued offensive against Nicaragua. To achieve their goals, the US and its agents are throwing the kitchen sink of dirty tricks against the Sandinista government. One of the most damaging aspects is that the western media repeats US government and Nicaraguan opposition media disinformation talking points.

Nicaragua Launches Plan To Fight Poverty And Promote Human Development

September 2, 2021 Teri Mattson and John Perry, Popular Resistance. Create! Human Rights, Nicaragua, Poverty, Sandinista Revolution

Ivan Acosta is Nicaragua’s minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country’s new “National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development.” This builds on the achievements of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government since it returned to power in 2007 and sets out how they will continue if Daniel Ortega’s government is returned at November’s elections. Ivan Acosta is currently subject to personal US sanctions, along with many other Nicaraguan government officials and their family members. Codepinks’s Teri Mattson spoke to the minister in a Zoom call and asked him to explain the plan and its background.

Falling In Love With Your Community

September 2, 2021 Massiel Luna Delgado, Tortilla con Sal. Create! Community, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, Solidarity

Today's world is complex and messed up. All the suffering among the great majorities for many people is just one more number while an increasing number of human beings are or feel isolated, depressed and alone, burdened down by the social consequences of decadent capitalism. However, in this hostile context Nicaragua, physically small but morally gigantic, is making real efforts to rebuild the country's neighborhoods as social and political units, a mutual support network based on solidarity. Many people who have grown up within the walls of residential or prestigious districts the world of the barrios is a distant, hostile and even scary place. However, for those of us who grew up and live in these neighborhoods, the barrio is our native territory, the place where we all know each other and greet each other, eye to eye, the place where there are no secrets because people have natural journalistic insight.

Women In A Housing Cooperative Build Their Own Homes

September 1, 2021 Winnie Narváez Herrera, Tortilla con Sal. Create! Cooperative, Housing, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

Like every other country, Nicaragua needs more affordable housing. To deal with the shortage, in many places it’s trying out community-based solutions, sharing responsibility between the government, the local authority and the families that need better conditions. It relies on mutual aid: hours of work put in voluntarily by those benefitting from a scheme, to build not only their own houses but those of their neighbours. It’s a cooperative that really works. I talked to two women members of one such group, Yadira Aguirre and Margine Martínez, about their work building houses in their small community in La Dalia in the mountainous north of Nicaragua. They are working women, part of a group whose main earnings come from coffee harvesting on large farms for three months each year.

Ordinary Nicaraguans Should Guide Progressive Left’s Stance

August 30, 2021 John Perry, LA Progressive. Strategize! Elections, Finance and the Economy, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

Rather than acclaiming a country that is lifting itself out of poverty, it is apparently much more important to judge it against hypocritical Western standards about “democracy” and “human rights” while disregarding the government’s need to defend the country’s gains against attacks from Washington and elsewhere.

Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ US Empire And Poverty

July 26, 2021 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Managua, Nicaragua – 42 years after the victory of the Sandinista revolution, Nicaraguans are still celebrating the gains of the leftist movement, and hoping to take the transformative process to another stage. This July 19, tens of thousands of Nicaraguans flooded downtown Managua, the capital, to show their support for the revolution and the national government that since 2007 has been led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). An ocean of Nicaraguans filled the streets bearing red and black bandanas, waving FSLN flags, and chanting revolutionary slogans. The celebration lasted for an entire week, culminating with speeches by President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, who emphasized gains of the revolution like free universal healthcare and education for all citizens, new high-quality infrastructure, the empowerment of women and the youth, as well as an assertive stance on the global stage.

The Sandinista Revolution Reaches 42 Years Of Victories

July 20, 2021 Telesur English. Create! Anniversary, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

On Monday, Nicaragua celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the victory of the revolution led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza on July 19, 1979. The celebrations began on Sunday with a night party at the Faith Square next to Xolotlan Lake, where citizens gathered to dance, eat and drink among revolutionary sounds emitted from speakers. Nicaragua’s vice president Rosario Murillo said that her administration promoted over 5,000 cultural and recreational activities, which will include vigils and mass concerts. On this day, Nicaraguans wave red-black flags everywhere to remember the heroes of an anti-imperialist struggle that began with Cesar Augusto Sandino in the 1920s.

Nicaragua – A Revolution Worth Defending

June 1, 2021 Jorge Capelán and Stephen Sefton, Telesur English. Educate! Finance and the Economy, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution, Solidarity

In a recent article "Washington: new attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government" Pablo Jofre Leal recognizes that Nicaragua, is the target of imperialist aggression by the U.S. and its regional pawns, more than ever now in this election year. He also notes the absurdity of the US authorities' declaration that Nicaragua is a danger to US national security and observes how the media routinely falsely portrays Nicaragua as a dictatorship, focusing its hate campaign mostly on President Comandante Daniel Ortega. Jofre Leal accurately and correctly summarizes that Nicaragua, like Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela is the object of a conspiracy between the U.S. and its European allies to destabilize the country through economic warfare, psychological warfare, and the financing of opposition organizations and politicians.

Nicaragua Rebuffs Attacks At Human Rights Hearing

March 26, 2021 John Perry, Alliance for Global Justice. Educate! colonization, Indigenous Rights, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

Nicaragua was one of the first countries in Latin America to give constitutional rights to its Indigenous peoples and its laws to protect their territories are justly famous (especially the Autonomy Law of 1986 and the Demarcation Law of 2003). Some 40,000 Indigenous families live in areas that are legally owned and administered by over 300 Indigenous communities, covering almost a third of the country. Governmental recognition of land rights was the first step in tackling incursions by non-Indigenous settlers from western Nicaragua and the violent conflicts they sometimes produce.

«1 2 3 4 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources