Latin America

Correcting The Record: What Is Really Happening In Nicaragua?

July 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Nicaragua

By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, Popular Resistance ,July 10, 2018 Above: A massive peace march was held on July 8, 2018, in Managua showing support for the Nicaraguan government. Source UK Morning Star. There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left, some have simply repeated the dubious claims of[…]

U.S./Canada/E.U. Hands Off Venezuela!

June 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Venezuela

The Venezuelan opposition in 2016. Maduro has the support of the poor and the working class in Venezuela. The opposition boycotted the 2018 election and Maduro won handily. ~ Protest photo from Business Insider by Marco Bello (Reuters), Election photo from USA Today By Alison Bodine, originally published on Fire This Time Nicolas Maduro was re-elected as President of Venezuela[…]

How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today’s Mass Migration

June 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Honduras, Immigration

By Joseph Nevin, published on Consortium News, June 21, 2018 Central American migrants – particularly unaccompanied minors – are again crossing the U.S.-Mexico boundary in large numbers. Under the Obama administration In 2014, more than 68,000 unaccompanied Central American children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico boundary. There were more than 60,000 in 2016. The mainstream narrative often reduces the causes of migration to[…]

NED Boasts of “Laying the Groundwork for Insurrection” in Nicaragua

June 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Nicaragua

As Nicaraguan student protest leaders meet with neoconservatives in Washington, DC, a publication funded by the US government’s regime change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), boasts of spending millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection” against Daniel Ortega By Max Blumenthal, originally published on the Grayzone Project, June 19, 2018 While some corporate media outlets have portrayed[…]

Deciphering the Nicaraguan Student Uprising

June 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua

In addition to students, older adults have joined the barricades and self-defense groups who block the entry of paramilitaries and anti-riot police into the city of Masaya, Nicaragua. ~Photo by Rafael Camacho Editor’s note: The relative merits of this article and the following one have been much debated on our list serve. I am posting both here as both are[…]

Open Letter to Amnesty International

June 17, 2018 UNAC Editor NGOs, Nicaragua

Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience By Camilo E. Mejia, Latin America in Movement, June 14, 2018 ** Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. I open this letter quoting Donatella Rovera, who at the time this[…]

Argentina: Macri’s Neoliberal Fantasies

June 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Argentina, Counter Revolution

May 25 protest in Buenos Aires against the Argentine government’s negotiations with the IMF for a $30 billion loan. Inflation has been spiraling, and the peso has plunged in value. Many fear that Macri’s neo-liberal measures will augment a return to the conditions of the 2001-2002 financial collapse, when one in five Argentines were without a job. (Reuters) By Claudio[…]

Letter From Nicaragua: A Catastrophic Well-Orchestrated Event Is Occurring

June 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Nicaragua

Above: An anti-government demonstrator fires a home-made mortar during clashes with riot police at a barricade in the town of Masaya, 35km from Managua on June 9, 2018. — AFP Editor: This is breaking news from Nicaragua. The article and the intro below are from the original publication on Popular Resistance website. You can read Popular Resistance and Brian Willson’s introduction[…]

Venezuela Defeats US In Election

May 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Revolution, Venezuela

Above: Graffiti depicting late Venezuelan President (1999-2013) Hugo Chavez (L), South American independence hero, the liberator, Simon Bolivar (C) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela. Getty Images. by Kevin Zeese, originally published on Popular Resistance Upon returning to the United States from Venezuela and reading the terrible media reporting of the election, it was evident that the people of the[…]

My Contra Parents Are Marching For a New ‘Old’ Nicaragua: Are We, Too?

May 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Nicaragua

by Melissa Castillo, originally posted on Latino Rebels, April 29, 2018 grew up in Miami, Florida in the 1990s, surrounded by Cubans and Nicaraguans who had much of their material wealth and social status appropriated by popular revolutions. My family, here and abroad, resented the Sandinistas for “taking their country away.” To their dismay, I chose to study law in[…]