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JOH’s luck runs out

JOH’s luck runs out

April 21, 2022

Until 27 January, Juan Orlando Hernández was president of Honduras; he’s now on his way to a high-security prison in New York, awaiting trial. On the day JOH handed power to Xiomara Castro, charges were filed against him that would lead to an extradition request from the US embassy in Tegucigalpa. He was arrested on […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, drugs, US intervention

Does Nicaragua deserve the support of progressive opinion?

Does Nicaragua deserve the support of progressive opinion?

March 3, 2022

A debate with William Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology professor and author of books such as “Faustian Bargain” about Nicaragua, hosted by TheAnalysis.

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

People queueing to vote. Photo by Rick Stirling

How can Some Progressives get Basic Information about Nicaragua so Wrong?

December 19, 2021

On November 7, Nicaragua held elections in which current president Daniel Ortega received 75% support and, as a result, begins a new term of office in January. Not surprisingly, the US government described the election as a “sham.” Of more concern is that many on the left seem to agree. William Robinson’s NACLA article, Nicaragua: […]

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

Honduran presidential candidate for the Libertad y Refundacion (LIBRE) party Xiomara Castro.
Orlando Sierra—AFP/Getty Images

End of a Narcostate?

November 26, 2021

Joe Biden has a Central America problem. Countries that turned reliably neoliberal after the ‘small wars’ of the 1980s have become unwieldy again. After sixteen years of neoliberalism, Nicaraguans returned Daniel Ortega to power in 2007 and re-elected him this month in a vote which Biden dismissed as a ‘pantomime’. In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, migration

A farmer carries firewood in Nicaragua, where the government has given thousands of land titles to small farmers (CIAT, Flickr)

Nicaragua’s Elections Are a Referendum on Social Investment Policies

November 6, 2021

This article was written jointly with three young Nicaraguans, Patricia Ruiz, Winnie Narvaez, and Yorlis Luna U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently accused Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega of planning a “sham” election on November 7 and aiming to create an “authoritarian dynasty” after arrests of opposition figures ahead of the vote. Also referring to […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Nicaraguan elections | 2 Responses

Facebook does the US government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections

Facebook does the US government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections

November 3, 2021

A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega. This blatant censorship move was said to be because they had discovered “troll farms” operated by government agencies. But […]

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

Nicaraguans gather at the Jesus El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Tapachula, Mexico July, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres

Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’-or Economic Downturn?

November 3, 2021

“Record numbers” of migrants are coming into the United States from Nicaragua, according to Newsweek, which blames the increase on “arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses” by the Nicaraguan government. Former Sandinista leader Sergio Ramírez, writing for El Salvador’s El Faro, claims that “repression” by President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government is causing a “dramatic growth” […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: migration, Guatemala, Nicaraguan elections, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, US intervention, Mexico

Ordinary Nicaraguans should guide progressive left’s stance

Ordinary Nicaraguans should guide progressive left’s stance

August 29, 2021

As elections approach in Nicaragua, there has been a spate of left-wing criticism of Daniel Ortega’s government that, to someone living in the country, seems bizarrely out of sync with what most Nicaraguans see as their pressing priorities. A string of opinion polls confirm what my day-to-day conversations tell me: that support for government policies […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, human rights, Nicaraguan elections, Nicaragua | 1 Response

When hurricane ETA flooded Nicaragua’s northeastern coast in November 2020, U.S. organizations like the IMF and World Bank delayed sending relief funds. (D. Membreño, EU, Flickr)

Sanctions May Impoverish Nicaraguans, but Won’t Change their Vote

August 8, 2021

In 1985, when President Reagan declared Nicaragua “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” his words were followed by a trade blockade, a ban on commercial flights and—most seriously of all—the financing of the “Contra” war, which led to 30,000 deaths. When, 33 years later, Donald […]

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

Why U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Isn’t Working

Why U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Isn’t Working

July 23, 2021

After the U.S.-Russian summit in June, there was no apparent irony in President Biden’s response to a question about electoral interference. “Let’s get this straight,” he said. “How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew […]

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

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