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“90% of Nicaraguans feel spied upon” – True, or fake news?
The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.” El Pais sources a survey carried…
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A quartet of Nicaragua critics sings from Washington’s songbook
In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared O. Bell, a former USAID Foreign Service Officer; Barb Arland-Fye, editor of a Catholic newspaper in Iowa; and Gioconda Belli, a 76-year-old Nicaraguan…
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Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South
With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now with the neocon capture of the Democrats, there are no guardrails from the so-called opposition party. Call it the “new cold war,” the…
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Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), run jointly by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The larger…
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When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist candidate in the mold of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez might be up against a neoliberal such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. It…
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Collective action against genocide in Gaza
Alfred de Zayas, the former UN independent adviser who has taken part in a Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition webinar and contributed to petitions and articles about the so-called Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, last year submitted a petition to the Internationa Criminal Court, calling for an investigation of the complicity of the President of…
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Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, meddling in their internal affairs.
