On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin, a 35-year-old Nicaraguan man, was deported from the United States by ICE and, on arrival in Managua, was immediately sent to prison by Nicaraguan authorities. Reports described him as a “torture victim,” a “political prisoner,” and a “prominent figure in the anti-government protests” that occurred in Nicaragua in…
Nicaragua’s electoral reforms seek to defend popular sovereignty as Washington intensifies its interference in Latin American elections. Last week I was at a local neighborhood meeting in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya. More than a hundred people had come to hear a report from a doctor from the local health center and from a teacher…
Women who attain political power are often judged by the US-aligned corporate press not simply by what they do but by how politically acceptable they are. This is evident in the strikingly different media treatment of three Latin American leaders, all lifelong leftists, raising the question of how relations with the US shape media judgments…
After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump – Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – and was asked about US policy towards Cuba and Nicaragua, and what he would do “to finally bring…
In mid-July, Donald Trump railed on primetime TV against alleged foreign interference in US presidential elections. While commentators were sceptical, they largely ignored the long history of US meddling in other countries’ elections. In Honduras, only six months earlier, Trump’s endorsed candidate won a slim majority in an election that he had turned into a…
In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. The pledge was universally interpreted by Western media outlets as a total ban on voting, prompting hysterical…
Testimonies of solidarity with Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution from the US, Britain and Ireland In memory of Chuck Kaufman and Kevin Zeese Revolutionary struggles around the world have always inspired admiration and support among the popular movements of the Western capitalist countries. Authentic Western progressive opinion defends the ideals of equality among people, brotherhood among nations,…
Donald Trump’s second term has precipitated a tsunami of criticism from Democrats over his foreign policy. Yet when it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering – is less about ends than means.
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political motivation. This fact-impoverished rush to judgment reflects a more general bias of the US-aligned corporate…
Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. Even then, Asfura…