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  • Nicaragua | Masaya project updates

    Donor organisation visits Masaya projects

    John Perry March 2, 2017July 18, 2025

      Doña Concepción’s straw bale house near Masaya One of the regular donors to projects in Masaya is the London-based Southern Housing Group, a large housing association. In January we were able to visit two local farming families with Will Routh, Southern’s Head of Sustainability and ask how they’d benefited from the LMLG-ADIC project work….

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  • Latin America

    Hitch-hiking or bottling?

    John Perry December 29, 2016

    A few years ago, outside Cuba’s main towns, hitch-hiking was the main way of getting around. State-run buses were few and far between, trains (despite Cuba having the most extensive network in Latin America) might be scheduled to run at least once daily – but whether they ran at all was always subject to a…

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  • Latin America

    Forget Fidel Castro’s policies?

    John Perry November 29, 2016

    This letter to the Guardian, below, is in response to a piece by Zoe Williams, Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator. Zoe Williams’ usually excellent judgment has let her down when she says of Fidel Castro that “What matters is that he was a dictator”, because she forgets the…

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  • Latin America

    The Last Soldiers of the Cold War

    John Perry November 28, 2016

    A review of the book by Fernando Morais On February 24, 1996, three small planes set off from Florida, planning to enter Cuban airspace over Havana and drop propaganda leaflets. They were piloted by members of Brothers to the Rescue, one of the many anti-Castro organisations that were then not only trying to reverse the…

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  • Nicaragua | Masaya project updates

    Richard takes action back home in Leicester

    John Perry October 30, 2016July 18, 2025

    Richard Sieff is a member of the Leicester-Masaya Link Group who joined as a result of visiting Nicaragua through Raleigh International. In this guest blog, he writes about his experiences and his commitment to take ‘Action at Home’. ‘Action at Home’ – I knew the requirement of this vital component of the International Citizen Service programme: raise awareness…

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  • Latin America | Energy and the environment | Book reviews

    The discoverer of the New World

    John Perry August 30, 2016

    A review of ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf On 16 July 1799 a revolutionary thinker arrived in Latin America. Unlike most Europeans who had preceded him to the continent, he didn’t believe in slavery and he promoted the rights of indigenous people. He saw mining for gold and silver for the exploitation it…

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  • Latin America | Central America wildlife | Book reviews

    An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

    John Perry July 9, 2016

    Alan Rabinowitz begins his compelling story of the jaguar with two experiences of meeting one. The first was in the zoo, as a child. The second, more than two decades later, is set in Belize, a key part of the ‘Jaguar Corridor’ that Rabinowitz has fought to preserve through Mesoamerica and into the northern parts…

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  • Latin America | Central America wildlife

    Under the volcano

    John Perry May 31, 2016

    On my morning walk there is a point from which I can see the sulphurous fumes pouring from the Masaya volcano. On the lip of the crater, although not visible from my viewpoint seven kilometres away, is a large wooden cross. It occupies the pinnacle on which a similar cross was first placed in 1529…

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  • Latin America | Book reviews

    The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya

    John Perry March 18, 2016

    Several books on my recent reading pile might broadly be categorised as being about ‘exiles’, and few exiled people have been in a worse position than those who left their homelands to avoid the Central American guerilla wars of the 1980s. This applied especially to combatants, but almost equally at risk were left-wing sympathisers or…

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  • Honduras

    The Murder of Berta Cáceres

    John Perry March 7, 2016July 18, 2025

    According to the campaign group Global Witness, 116 environmental activists were killed in 2014, a fifth more than the year before. Many of them were leaders of indigenous communities defending their land. The most dangerous place for environmental campaigners is Honduras, where 101 were reported killed between 2010 and 2014. The chief activist of the…

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John PerryJohn Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he writes about Latin America for the Grayzone, Covert Action, FAIR, London Review of Books, Morning Star and elsewhere, and also works on UK housing and migration issues.

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