Nicaragua

Why is the Nicaraguan Government Demonized by both Liberals and Conservatives When Nicaragua Has Seen Great Progress Under the Sandinistas?

April 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Socialism

by Stansfield Smith, published on Covert Action Magazine, March 28, 2022 Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006 Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of the poverty and their traditional sex role imposes on them. On them falls[…]

‘The Mouse Kills the Cat’: Augusto Cesar Sandino’s Rebellion Against the United States

March 15, 2022 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Resistance, U.S. Aggression

by Dan Kovalik, published on MLToday, March 14, 2022 How Sandino fought for Nicaragua’s independence, lost and remained a hero for its people. Before Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, before Ho Chi Minh and before Mao began his Long March, there was Augusto Cesar Sandino. While Sandino is not a household name in much of the world, as these others[…]

Nicaragua Once Again Inaugurates the “People as President”

January 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Nicaragua

by Nan McCurdy, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 23, 2022 On January 10, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated President and Rosario Murillo was inaugurated as Vice President. The central event in the Plaza of the Revolution was accompanied by Sandinistas celebrating in almost every town with big-screen displays of the inauguration. Once he had been sworn in, with the presidential[…]

U.S Delegation to Nicaragua Demands ‘End U.S. Sanctions!

January 22, 2022 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Resistance, Revolution, Rights of Opressed Peoples, U.S. Aggression

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 19, 2022 Managua, Nicaragua: Members of anti-imperialist organizations from around the U.S. traveled to Nicaragua during the week of Jan. 10 to observe the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of the party of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN). Ortega and Murillo’s[…]

2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again

January 15, 2022 UNAC Editor Latin America, Socialism

by Roger D. Harris, published on MLToday, December 30, 2021 US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip[…]

How Can Some Progressives Get Basic Information about Nicaragua So Wrong?

January 6, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Democracy and Consent, Nicaragua

by John Perry and Rick Sterling, published in the LA Progressive, December 20, 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[…]

‘We Became Visible’ – a Sandinista’s View on Autonomy

November 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua

by Johnny Hodgson, published on Workers World, November 19, 2021 The Sandinista revolution established the mission to create a new nation, a new Nicaraguan nationality, a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual country, where the Indigenous and Afro-descendant would have the possibility of participating on an equal basis in the construction of this new Nicaraguan nation. We reached the conclusion that for[…]

Nicaragua elections a defeat for U.S. empire

November 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Democracy, Nicaragua

by Jim Byrne, published on Fightback News, November 10, 2021 Tucson, AZ – For a small, largely agricultural country, Nicaragua has delivered several losses to the much larger, more militarily advanced U.S. empire. From Augusto Sandino’s peasant army expelling the U.S. Marines in the 1930s, to the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 that toppled the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship, to the electoral[…]

US Threatens Regime Change in Nicaragua

November 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Democracy, Nicaragua, Socialism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 10, 2021 Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration’s attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its corporate media[…]

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality

November 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, November 4, 2021 The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the efforts of Congress to manipulate the electoral process in Nicaragua through illegal sanctions, subversion and the coordination of a deliberate misinformation campaign meant to delegitimize the country’s elections even before they take place. As part of that effort the U.S. House of Representatives passed the[…]