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April 7, 2025
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.
Category: Latin America | Tags: sanctions, Venezuela, US intervention, Cuba, Nicaragua |
April 7, 2025
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced on President Trump’s “Liberation Day.”
Category: Latin America | Tags: sanctions, US intervention, Nicaragua |
February 16, 2025
A briefing by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, February 2025 Draft legislation from the last session of the United States Congress, likely to be reintroduced in the 119th session, appears to conflict with an important US trade treaty. If approved, the ill-named “Restoring Sovereignty and Human Rights in Nicaragua Act” (formerly numbered S.1881 in the Senate […]
Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, sanctions, Nicaragua
November 25, 2024
In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Presumably he agreed that it does, because he renewed its status […]
Category: Latin America | Tags: sanctions, Nicaragua crisis, US intervention, Nicaragua
December 10, 2023
Is it true that 50% of Nicaraguans want to leave their country owing to a climate of repression and economic decline, supposedly resulting from socialist policies? This was the allegation in a report published by AmericasBarometer, a research agency based at Vanderbilt University, which failed to note that its previous forecast, that 30% of Nicaraguans […]
Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: sanctions, Nicaragua, US intervention, Nicaragua crisis
November 7, 2023
Which country spends nearly two-thirds of its budget on tackling poverty? When I met Nicaragua’s finance minister, Ivan Acosta, he had just presented his 2024 budget to its national assembly, and he made clear that a large part of it is aimed at doing just that.
Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, sanctions |
July 15, 2023
Britain and the U.S. impose economic sanctions on dozens of governments they don’t like, write Erik Mar and John Perry. Some people in Nicaragua are being targeted on the basis of little or no evidence.
Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, human rights, sanctions |