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The Power of a Good Example: Nicaragua and the Covid Response - Collateral Global

The Power of a Good Example: Nicaragua and the Covid Response – Collateral Global

November 24, 2022

In this podcast, CG steering committee member Toby Green talks with John Perry, contributor to the London Review of Books, FAIR and other publications on Nicaraguan affairs.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, coronavirus

Nicaragua’s inconvenient Covid victory

Nicaragua’s inconvenient Covid victory

November 24, 2022

In Nicaragua, Latin America’s third poorest country, people who don’t work don’t eat. Three-quarters of jobs are in small businesses or the informal economy. So when its first Covid case was diagnosed on 18 March 2020, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega knew that shutting down the economy would be catastrophic.

Category: Latin America | Tags: media, coronavirus, Nicaragua

With Nicaragua, Scary Covid Projections Are More Newsworthy Than Hopeful Results

With Nicaragua, Scary Covid Projections Are More Newsworthy Than Hopeful Results

April 3, 2021

One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the virus was even worse.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, media, coronavirus

A health worker measures a woman’s temperature at the entrance of Managua Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua. Photograph: Inti Ocón/AFP/Getty Images

Covid control lessons from Nicaragua

January 3, 2021

A letter published in the Guardian, arguing that the UK should take the lead from Nicaragua, where early strict measures have kept the coronavirus death rate one of the lowest in the world.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, coronavirus

Covid-19: On the Decline in Nicaragua as its Critics Fall Silent

Covid-19: On the Decline in Nicaragua as its Critics Fall Silent

September 22, 2020

No country can yet claim to have defeated Covid-19, but clearly some are having more success than others. Nicaragua is one of these, and could yet be recognized as a world leader. With under 5,000 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, according to official figures, its infection level is far below that of Panama (105,000), […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: human rights, coronavirus, Nicaragua, media | 3 Responses

Coronavirus is being tackled by Nicaragua’s community-based health system

Coronavirus is being tackled by Nicaragua’s community-based health system

August 9, 2020

by Kevin Zeese and John Perry Sadly, only a month after contributing to this article, Kevin Zeese died suddenly. He will be sorely missed. Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is – like every other government – engaged in a struggle to limit the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on its people. But Nicaragua suffers two additional handicaps. […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Nicaragua crisis, coronavirus

Why the Labour movement should support Nicaragua’s Sandinista government

Why the Labour movement should support Nicaragua’s Sandinista government

July 30, 2020

The Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua was an inspiration to many on the left in the 1980s. Forty-one years later, it still urgently needs and deserves our support. The case for doing so is a very strong one. After the US-inspired “Contra war” led to electoral defeat for the Sandinistas in 1990, the country endured 16 […]

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

“Members of the 300-strong sanitation squad who work for the Managua city council”, from www.el19digital.com

Nicaragua battles COVID-19 and a Disinformation Campaign

May 31, 2020

Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. The world’s poorer countries face the toughest challenge, because a high proportion of their populations engage in a daily struggle to […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, media, Nicaragua crisis, coronavirus | 2 Responses

COVID-19 as a pretext for repression

COVID-19 as a pretext for repression

May 2, 2020

“He’s not a doctor, I don’t think.” Trump had just finished a phone call with Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), the de facto president of Honduras who runs a narco-state. On April 30, JOH was indirectly implicated in drug and murder charges by the US Justice Department in a case against a former chief police officer. This […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, drugs, US intervention, El Salvador, panama, coronavirus

'Love in the time of COVID-19' - a cynical analysis of Nicaragua's efforts to combat the epidemic

‘Love in the time of COVID-19’ – a cynical analysis of Nicaragua’s efforts to combat the epidemic

May 2, 2020

Nicaragua’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the subject of correspondence in the medical journal, The Lancet. A letter from 13 health professionals, based in the USA (except for one in Costa Rica), criticised the Nicaraguan government’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic as ‘careless’ and ‘perhaps the most erratic of any country in the world […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, coronavirus

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