Sandinista Government

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 Demands: Defend Nicaragua!

October 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Published on Workers World, October 11, 2021 From Managua, Nicaragua Nicaragua’s Alliance for Global Justice delegation visited Nicaragua to learn about the advances of the Sandinista government over the last 15 years. The object of the visit was to counter the tsunami of false information daily churned out by the U.S. State Department and its allies in the national and[…]

Sandinista Nicaragua, More Dignified and Victorious Than Ever

August 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Revolution, Socialism

by Carlos Fonseca Terán, published on LA Progressive, July 25, 2021 Nicaragua is in the news again. But not for being one of the countries with the greatest reduction in poverty and social inequality worldwide since 2007 (poverty by half, extreme poverty by a third, and going from being the fourth most unequal country to being the fourth least unequal[…]

Power to the People! Policing and Caribbean Autonomy in Nicaragua

October 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua, Regional Solutions, Socialism, Women

Normally I wouldn’t post a webinar, but this is special. Friends of Latin America produced this webinar where 3 women from Nicaragua speak about their experiences with Community policing. Ajamu Baraka comes in after they speak and talks about how their experiences relate to what is happening now in the United States where people are demanding community supervision of police[…]

Nicaragua in the Shadow of Western Fascism

June 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Nicaragua

by Tortilla con Sal, Published on TeleSUR English, May 21, 2019 Current US and EU foreign policy embodies fascism in terms of its aspect combining corporate power with State power and policy. In her Sorbonne University exam results, French philosopher Simone Weil scored better than Simone de Beauvoir or Jean-Paul Sartre. She well understood the varieties of Western fascism and[…]

NICA-Act-I: Nicaragua Reminds the US of its Debts

January 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Latin America, Nicaragua

by Chuck Kaufman, from NicaNotes, August 22, 2017 Passage by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of the ridiculous NICA Act brought a rebuff by the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega and a reminder of the US’s own unpaid debt to Nicaragua. The NICA Act (Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017), if it became law, would require US representatives in multilateral lending institutions[…]