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Dismissing the Truth

Dismissing the Truth

February 27, 2019

In 2018 Amnesty International produced two reports on Nicaragua, accusing the Nicaraguan government of ‘a strategy of indiscriminate repression’. The context was violent protests which broke out in April last year and ended last July. The Nicaraguan government was accused by AI of using ‘arbitrary detention’ and ‘excessive, disproportionate and unnecessary force’ in dealing with […]

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

Why Didn’t Carl David Goette-Luciak Report on the Torture He Witnessed?

Why Didn’t Carl David Goette-Luciak Report on the Torture He Witnessed?

October 25, 2018

by Nan McCurdy There has been a great deal of inaccurate and biased reporting about Nicaragua written in support of regime change and presenting a false narrative of what occurred in the Nicaraguan uprising. The article below is about a self-trained reporter, Carl David Goette-Luciak, who was the source of consistently biased reporting which had […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Masaya, media, Nicaragua crisis | 2 Responses

Misinformation on Nicaragua: It was a coup, not a massacre

Misinformation on Nicaragua: It was a coup, not a massacre

August 15, 2018

There is so much misinformation on the left about recent events in Nicaragua that it is a pity that Mary Ellsberg’s article for Pulse has added to it. She says that recent articles often ‘paint a picture of the crisis in Nicaragua that is dangerously misleading’. Unfortunately, her own article is subject to just that criticism. It […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Masaya, media, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaragua, US intervention

A masked man holds a homemade mortar during protests against the government of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega. Photo: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

Opposition behind the violence in Nicaragua

July 27, 2018

Following the Guardian’s rejection of a longer letter with multiple signatories on this issue, they accepted this shorter one. Your report says Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president, is facing a “nationwide revolt” by “peaceful” protesters (Ortega decries ‘terrible lies’ over protest deaths in rare interview, 25 July). I live in the city of Masaya, which was […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Masaya, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaragua | 1 Response

A letter to The Guardian

A letter to The Guardian

July 24, 2018

During the three months of political crisis in Nicaragua, The Guardian has produced some twenty reports, including a number from Managua and two from Masaya, a city that for several weeks was effectively under opposition control. Unfortunately, its coverage has been seriously unbalanced. A group of us based in Nicaragua, the US and the UK […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Masaya, media, Nicaragua crisis | 2 Responses

A masked protester shoots off his homemade mortar in the Monimbó neighborhood during clashes with police, in Masaya, Nicaragua, June 2, 2018. (AP Photo / Esteban Felix)

After 2 Months of Unrest, Nicaragua Is at a Fateful Crossroads

June 25, 2018

If there’s no negotiated peace with a return to order, the conflict could spin out of control, bringing the chronic violence and insecurity of the country’s northern neighbours. In a video clip, a young boy stands at a makeshift barricade across a road. He holds a toy gun to the head of his friend. Off […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Masaya, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaragua | 4 Responses

A barricade in Masaya. Photo: Reuters.

An interview about the situation in Masaya

June 7, 2018

Tom Ricker of the Quixote Center in Maryland interviewed me about the current situation in Masaya (June 2018). Here is what I said. There has been a tremendous amount of violence in Masaya over the last week. Several people have been killed, a school was set on fire, and people assumed to be supporters of […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Masaya, Nicaragua crisis | 1 Response

After Ortega?

After Ortega?

May 2, 2018

Nicaragua had a record 1.8 million tourists last year. It’s a beautiful country, and in 2017 it officially became the safest in Central America. But after three days of political violence last month, one of the few certainties in 2018 is that it will lose both records. More than 40 people died in the protests, […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Masaya, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaragua | 2 Responses

The water tank for the Agrosolar project, orange trees and (in the foreground) remains of a maize crop

Old and new water projects

March 22, 2018

ADIC is again working to deliver water to communities in the hot, arid zone to the north of Masaya, called El Timal. Today we paid a visit to an old project and a possible new one. In 2014, with support from the British embassy, ADIC carried out its Agrosolar project in a small, remote community […]

Category: Latin America, Masaya project updates | Tags: Nicaragua, Masaya, solar energy | 1 Response

Donor organisation visits Masaya projects

Donor organisation visits Masaya projects

March 2, 2017

  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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