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Unilateral Coercive Measures and Humanitarian Action

May 8, 2025

The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures (or sanctions) made a global request for evidence on their effects on humanitarian action. Given that sanctions against Nicaragua are having a considerable effect on the government’s humanitarian work, the Coalition made this submission to the inquiry.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, human rights, sanctions | Leave a response

Latin America three months into the Trumpocalypse

April 18, 2025

Roger D. Harris and John Perry

Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combatting “threats to US security,” and stopping other countries from “ripping us off” in trade. The over 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine is alive and on steroids.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, El Salvador, chile, Bolivar, Brazil, panama | Leave a response

Irregular Warfare

April 9, 2025

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand prisoners, although is said to be only half full. CECOT was built to incarcerate alleged members of violent gangs, who by 2015 had made El Salvador the Western Hemisphere’s most dangerous country. Dispensing with warrants and court hearings, in 2022 the government jailed almost 2 per cent of the population, many on the basis only of their tattoos. The official murder rate fell from 18 per day to one every three days.

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Category: Latin America, Uncategorized | Tags: migration, Venezuela, El Salvador

Meet the Washington think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans

April 7, 2025

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela, sanctions

Nicaragua’s opposition media welcome Trump’s new tariffs – and ignore how they were calculated

April 7, 2025

“Liberation Day” [photo: White House}

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.”

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, sanctions

‘A better world is possible…’

April 4, 2025

Three speakers who live and work in Nicaragua explain how Nicaragua has implemented such successful, well-integrated poverty-reduction programmes despite unrelenting US attempts to overthrow the government and impose ‘democracy’, US style.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Nicaragua

Biased UN report on Nicaragua ignores victims of US-backed opposition violence

March 7, 2025

One of scores of violent barricades, or tranques, created around Nicaragua during the 2018 coup attempt

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.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Nicaragua crisis, human rights

Is USAID “a criminal organization?” – in Nicaragua, the evidence suggests it was

February 26, 2025

President 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 at all in Musk’s allegation?

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaraguan elections, NGOs

The CAFTA treaty and the prospect of new US sanctions against Nicaragua

February 16, 2025

A briefing by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, February 2025

Draft legislation from the last session of the United States Congress, likely to be reintroduced in the 119th session, appears to conflict with an important US trade treaty. If approved, the ill-named “Restoring Sovereignty and Human Rights in Nicaragua Act” (formerly numbered S.1881 in the Senate and H.R.6954 in the House) could enable the US administration to impose sweeping new economic sanctions on Nicaragua.

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, sanctions

The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America

February 11, 2025

John Bolton, notorious coup-monger, with a grenade memento he received when he left USAID. It describes him as “The Truest Reaganaut.”

By John Perry and Roger D. Harris

“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.”

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Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela, human rights

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