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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

Nicaragua and the media in 2019: A polarised picture

Nicaragua and the media in 2019: A polarised picture

July 19, 2020

A new book, The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare, is published this month to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. An extract below deals with how the media have treated Nicaragua in 2019 and the first part of 2020. Look at the media in 2019 and the first […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Nicaragua crisis

Armed opposition activists at Managua's Baseball Stadium, May 30 2018

Nicaragua and the OAS Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts

July 14, 2020

A briefing prepared for the Alliance for Global Justice and The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group by Stephen Sefton, John Perry and Jorge Capélan

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

Revisiting 2018 Mother’s March in Nicaragua: New report repeats old bias

Revisiting 2018 Mother’s March in Nicaragua: New report repeats old bias

July 5, 2020

A report issued at the end of May repeats allegations of government repression in Nicaragua during violent protests in 2018. It was commissioned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a body of the Organization of American States (OAS), and revives arguments that the Sandinista government is violating human rights. It purports to provide […]

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

“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, 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

A friend in Managua

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

April 18, 2020

The right-wing opposition in Nicaragua, having failed in their attempted coup in 2018, still looks at any potential crisis as a new opportunity to attack the Sandinista government. Their latest chance, of course, arrived with the coronavirus pandemic. Even though the virus has barely hit the country yet, the government is under attack. The international […]

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

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

A headline you won’t read

A headline you won’t read

February 19, 2020

Here’s a headline you won’t see: Nicaragua is at peace. After the violent attempt to overthrow the government in 2018, which cost at least 200 lives, the country has largely returned to the tranquillity it enjoyed before. This is not only the impression that any visitor to Nicaragua will receive, it is confirmed by statistics: […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Nicaragua crisis, human rights | 2 Responses

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