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Nicaraguan migrants at the U.S. border – are they being “pushed” or “pulled”?

Nicaraguan migrants at the U.S. border – are they being “pushed” or “pulled”?

November 26, 2022

Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1½ years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this has become a story, and government detractors argue, with little evidence, that people are fleeing political repression. “They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, US intervention, Mexico, migration, Nicaragua crisis

The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees

The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees

June 29, 2022

Two years ago, COHA reported on the manufactured “refugee” crisis around Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica. Now the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is saying that “102,000 people fled Nicaragua and sought asylum in Costa Rica” in 2021. As this article shows, this statement is inaccurate, adding further to the myth that Nicaragua is suffering […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, migration

Nicaraguans gather at the Jesus El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Tapachula, Mexico July, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres

Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’-or Economic Downturn?

November 3, 2021

“Record numbers” of migrants are coming into the United States from Nicaragua, according to Newsweek, which blames the increase on “arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses” by the Nicaraguan government. Former Sandinista leader Sergio Ramírez, writing for El Salvador’s El Faro, claims that “repression” by President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government is causing a “dramatic growth” […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, Nicaraguan elections, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica

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: Costa Rica, drugs, US intervention, El Salvador, panama, coronavirus, Honduras, Nicaragua

Nicaraguan border post Photo: Orlando Miranda, from www.el19digital.com

As the coronavirus strikes, Nicaraguans in Costa Rica are urged to stay

March 24, 2020

The coronavirus epidemic is still in its early stages in Central America but it has already put a focus on Costa Rica’s dependency on workers from Nicaragua. At any one time there are around 400,000 Nicaraguans working in the neighbouring country, especially doing building work, domestic work, as security guards or in agriculture. Given that […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Nicaragua crisis, coronavirus

‘Human rights’ propaganda against Nicaragua comes from Costa Rica

‘Human rights’ propaganda against Nicaragua comes from Costa Rica

October 27, 2019

Some of the local ‘human rights’ organisations in Nicaragua, which received foreign funding and operated as propaganda vehicles against the government, lost their legal status earlier this year. One of the these was CENIDH, run by Vilma Nuñez. Several of the staff, including a director, Gonzalo Carrión, left in February to set up a new […]

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

El Dorado

El Dorado

May 20, 2014

Last June the G8 agreed a new plan called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which is supposed to ensure poor countries receive the full benefit of their natural resources. Canada is one of EITI’s stakeholder countries; 60 per cent of the world’s mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. One of them, Pacific […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, mining, El Salvador

Many Siria Valley residents say they are still living with the health, environmental and other impacts of Goldcorp's mine in Honduras. Photo by Rachel Deutsch

Extracting the truth about mining

June 25, 2013

Plans by the G8 to make international mining operations more transparent are to be welcomed. But the agreement is limited in scope and the extractive industries still have a long way to go to clean up their act.

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: mining, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala

Costa Rica puts its eco-reputation at risk

Costa Rica puts its eco-reputation at risk

December 15, 2011

Known as one of the originators of eco-tourism, and appearing a very creditable third in a world index of sustainability, Costa Rica has a reputation to maintain.  Its tourism industry, based around the country’s slogan ‘No artificial ingredients’, is worth over £2bn annually, more than its coffee and banana exports combined.  Though the smallest country […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Nicaragua, environment, Costa Rica

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