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Sandinistas march in Masaya after the 'political prisoners' had left the country

Nicaragua’s ‘Political Prisoners’ Would Be Criminals by US Standards

March 2, 2023

“Nicaragua Frees Hundreds of Political Prisoners to the United States,” the New York Times reported. In an unexpected move on February 9, the Nicaraguan government deported to the United States 222 people who were in prison, and moved to strip them of their citizenship. The prisoners had been convicted of various crimes, including terrorism, conspiracy […]

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

Diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity

January 27, 2023

After Harry Dunn was killed by a car that emerged from a US base in Northamptonshire on 27 August 2019, the driver, Anne Sacoolas, claimed diplomatic immunity and within three weeks was whisked out of the country on a US military aircraft, with the British police only being informed after she’d left. Sacoolas eventually appeared […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Venezuela | 1 Response

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 10, 2023

A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum. Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they could be legally imposed on South Africa by a resolution of the UN General Assembly […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela

Children play by the fence on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border

Washington blames record migration on ‘communism’ when the causes are closer to home

December 23, 2022

After two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, four times as many undocumented migrants are trying to cross the border into the United States, and he’s getting desperate to explain away the increase. In September, the administration discovered a new narrative: that migrants are fleeing “communism.”

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: US intervention, migration, Nicaragua

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

New US sanctions are designed to hit Nicaragua’s poorest citizens

New US sanctions are designed to hit Nicaragua’s poorest citizens

October 31, 2022

The Biden administration has announced new sanctions which are intended to hit the poorest Nicaraguans – both in their pockets and in the public services on which they depend. This latest attack on a small Central American country is, as usual, dressed up as promoting democracy: the sanctions will “deny the Ortega-Murillo regime the resources […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: mining, Nicaragua, US intervention | 4 Responses

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

Andrés Castro throws a rock, hitting and killing a filibustero

David vs. Goliath: Nicaragua’s independence

September 14, 2022

By Becca Renk This week Nicaragua celebrates its Independence Days – on September 14th the celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto won against U.S. filibusters in 1856, and on September 15th the commemoration of Central America’s independence from Spain in 1821. Becca Renk, who lives in Nicaragua, penned the piece below.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention

Street march in Masaya, July 2022

Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation

July 21, 2022

July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. We’ll hear again about how the government “clamps down on dissent,” about […]

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

Photo: Teri Mattson, Workers’ Summit, Tijuana, at the U.S. Border Wall

“Summit of Exclusion” Backfires on Biden

June 14, 2022

Jill Clark-Gollub, COHA Assistant Editor/Translator; Alina Duarte, COHA Senior Fellow; John Perry, COHA Senior Fellow “We would definitely have wanted a different Summit of the Americas. The silence of those absent challenges us. So that this does not happen again, I would like to state for the future that the fact of being the host […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela | 1 Response

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