Redfish National Endowment for Democracy (NED )and Ford Foundation funded think tank “Global Americans” yesterday published an article claiming a redfish documentary contains “lies and distortions” regarding the role that the media, including its own website, has played in the crisis that has ravaged Nicaragua since April this year. The redfish documentary called “The New…
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Nicaragua and the US Neo-Fascist Offensive
Fabian Escalante Font In April of the current year, media headlines pointed to a ‘revolution’ breaking out in Nicaragua against the Sandinista Front government headed by Commander Daniel Ortega. Until then, and for 11 years, the government of that country, legitimately chosen in elections supervised by regional organizations, had carried out wide-ranging programs for reducing…
Lava Jato|Fascism is a Match. Who’s the Matchmaker?
After arresting Brazil’s antifascist presidential front runner on trumped up charges to bar his candidacy, Inquisitor Sergio Moro now announces his ideological alignment with a militarized, neofascist regime. Did outside meddling lead to this marriage of convenience? Brian Mier Over the past several years, the Anglo media has gushed over neofascist president-elect’s new Minister of Justice,…
Nicaragua: Truth, US Funding and Corporate Shills
Stephen Sefton In a recent activity of the right wing Inter-American Dialogue organization in Washington the moderator Michael Shifter asked guest speaker, Nicaraguan Vice Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke, how he explained the consensus among various foreign news reporters that the attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government resulted from popular protest rather than a coup attempt….
Nicaragua: “We’re talking about terrorism, about financing terrorism, murder, bodily harm, torture, kidnapping that occurred from April 18th to date”
Tortilla Con Sal Interview with Police Commissioner Farle Roa, Director of the Judicial Assistance Office Tortilla con Sal: What is the Judicial Assistance Office and what has been its function within the context of the coup? Commissioner Farle Roa : The Judicial Assistance Department, is established by law, as the body be in charge of…
NSCAG Debunks Amnesty International Claims About Political Prisoners in Nicaragua
NSCAG In its latest attempt to demonise Nicaragua, Amnesty International once again nails its colours to the mast of the right wing opposition. Its latest ‘Urgent Action’ campaign – see link here – denouncing the ‘wave of detentions of students and activists in Nicaragua’ is yet more proof that Amnesty has given up all pretence…
The Nicaraguan Crisis: A US Regime Change Operation
Camilo Mejía Over the past four and a half months western corporate news reports about Nicaragua have painted a harrowing picture about the Central American country, historically known for a revolutionary legacy that has put the nation at odds with United States foreign policy and interests. In this latest iteration of conflict between the two…
Iran: Nicaragua, An ‘Anti-imperialist’ Nation
“Relations between Nicaragua and Iran are excellent as they are two friendly countries and respect each other” Farzam Vanaki Relations between Nicaragua and Iran are excellent as they are two friendly countries and respect each other, said the Nicaraguan ambassador to Tehran. Mario Barquero Baltodano noted that in multilateral organizations, such as the UN, we…
The Atlas Network in Latin America
Aram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel Part I: Atlas Network, the right-wing libertarians Atlas works with 450 foundations, NGOs, think tanks and advocacy groups, with an operating budget of 5 million US dollars (2016), given by their “charitable and nonprofit” foundations. Aram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel, co-directors of the Observatory in Communication and Democracy…
The Atlas Network Against Latin America
Manuel E. Yepe The Latin American Freedom Forum, took place in 2017 in Buenos Aires with the participation of President Mauricio Macri and Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It discussed a strategy to defeat socialism at all levels, with tactics ranging from camp battles on university campuses to nationwide mobilization to force the removal of…
Distorting Past and Present: Reuters on Nicaragua’s Armed Uprising
Joe Emersberger Reuters would be unlikely to characterize protesters as “mainly peaceful” if they were shooting mortars at the police force of a pro-Western government. From April 18 until late July 2018, an armed insurrection in Nicaragua left hundreds of people dead. The uprising, backed enthusiastically by private media outlets in Nicaragua (in particular one…
If I Worked for the Nicaraguan Opposition…
Forget my boring job. I have a new career path in mind. I want to be an advisor for the Nicaraguan opposition. Junior Taylor After 90 days of civil conflict, Nicaraguan roads are all open again, the markets are filled with colorful fruits, vegetables and people, and the smiles are returning to the faces in…
