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"Peaceful" protesters in Masaya on the first day of the coup attempt, April 18, 2018

Masaya in flames – five years afterwards

May 26, 2023

An interview with Randall, a “historic fighter” from Nicaragua’s revolution against the Somoza dictatorship, about the attempted coup in 2018 and how the violence affected his neighbourhood. During the attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018, Masaya was one of the cities most affected by the violence and by the widespread use of roadblocks to control […]

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How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup

How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup

May 15, 2023

John Perry and Dan Kovalik Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media. The “groundwork for insurrection” in Nicaragua was laid down months and […]

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Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance, by Daniel Kovalik

Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance, by Daniel Kovalik

April 29, 2023

Reviewed by John Perry and Jill Clark-Gollub The latest book by labor and human rights attorney, Daniel Kovalik, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance (2023, Clarity Press, 292 pages), is a worthy addition to the author’s collection of works on countries targeted by US imperialism, such as Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. While giving […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaraguan elections

Five years ago in Nicaragua: a coup attempt begins

Five years ago in Nicaragua: a coup attempt begins

April 13, 2023

Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent attempted coup that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the first of four articles, Dan Kovalik and John Perry look at how it was planned and how it started. In the first few months of 2018, Nicaragua hardly appeared to be a strong candidate for […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Nicaragua crisis, human rights, Nicaragua

The United Nations is being used by the U.S. in its propaganda war against Nicaragua

The United Nations is being used by the U.S. in its propaganda war against Nicaragua

April 2, 2023

While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a “strategic threat,” is seen as one of those enemies. Of the countries selected for their […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, Nicaragua crisis, human rights

Human rights experts call for withdrawal of biased UN report on Nicaragua

Human rights experts call for withdrawal of biased UN report on Nicaragua

March 31, 2023

Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, has joined other human rights specialists in condemning an “expert” report on Nicaragua published on March 2nd as being unprofessional, biased, incomplete and concocted to justify further coercive sanctions that will damage Nicaragua’s economy. Such unilateral coercive measures have been condemned by the General Assembly […]

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

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

Imperialism & hybrid warfare

Imperialism & hybrid warfare

October 27, 2022

With Camila Escalante, a journalist with Kawsachun News, I gave a presentation to a webinar for the Friends of ATC, a support group for the Nicaraguan agricultural workers union, about the violent coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018. You can watch it on youtube.

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

How “virtual crime scenes” became a propaganda tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria

How “virtual crime scenes” became a propaganda tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria

May 28, 2022

Written jointly with Rick Sterling This article shows how media uses computer modeling and “virtual crime scenes” to assign blame for some extremely important international events. In these examples from Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria, many people died in complex circumstances. The deaths at the “Mother’s March” in Managua, Nicaragua precipitated an attempted coup.  The Maidan […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, media, Nicaragua crisis, ukraine, syria

'We’ll kill him and burn him alive'

‘We’ll kill him and burn him alive’

October 20, 2021

Frances Haugen’s cutting accusations against her former employers, Facebook, on October 5 included references to how social media are used to provoke and coordinate violence. This happened in Nicaragua too. It’s June 2018 on a backstreet somewhere in Nicaragua. Filmed by an adult, a boy holds a toy gun to the head of his friend, […]

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