Yorlis Luna I think when many of us look at the world today we feel like we’re watching a science fiction movie: 22 million officially unemployed in the U.S. while analysts say the true figure may be double that[1],; predictions of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s; and lines up…
Category: NICARAGUA
Nicaragua in the OAS on Challenges for Inter-American Law
Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional Unida Nicaragua Triunfa SPEECH BY AMBASSADOR LUIS ALVARADO AT THE FIRST VIRTUAL SESSION OF THE FORUM ON CHALLENGES FOR INTER-AMERICAN LAW IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 11, 2020 Thank you very much Mr. President. The Delegation of the Government of the Republic of…
Remembrance of a Miracle at the United Nations
Carla Stea Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the SixtyThird UN General Assembly, 2008-2009 “I do not represent the G7, or the G20, or the P5, I represent the G192, all the member states belonging to the United Nations. All 192 are equally important, and their concerns will be equally addressed.” “If we continue along…
Is Nicaragua Hiding COVID-19 Cases?
Becca Mohally Renk Since the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic in March, we have seen opposition media in Nicaragua quoting unnamed “extra official sources” and “informants” saying that there are many more cases of COVID-19 than the Ministry of Health (MINSA) is officially reporting, and these stories are being repeated by international media. Our organization,…
Nicaragua and COVID-19: Western Media’s Best Kept Secret
Jorge Capelán Health promoters go house to house to educate about COVID-19 symptoms (Photo El 19 Digital) One of the best-hidden secrets amidst the cacophony of panic and media terrorism caused by the current COVID-2019 pandemic has been how successfully Nicaragua, a small, impoverished country in one of the most climate change-prone regions on the…
Nicaragua and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stephen Sefton Brigadistas visit house by house (Photo: Voz del Sandinismo) While each country’s experience facing the COVID-19 pandemic is different, some common fundamental factors can make the difference between widespread catastrophe and relative stability. Nicaragua has so far been among the most successful countries in Latin America in protecting its population from the virus…
Unlearning Dementia: Questions Nicaragua’s Opposition Should Answer
Tortilla con Sal The most fundamental Western false belief, reproduced on a global industrial scale, is that North America and Europe are culturally and morally superior to the rest of the world. Anyone actively defending victims of US and allied aggression, from Palestine and Iran to Cuba and Venezuela, will be familiar with the disturbing…
Nicaragua and the Struggle Against US Imperialism in Latin America
Fiona Edwards Overthrowing the Sandinista government in Nicaragua is a key foreign policy goal for the US in Latin America. Alongside Cuba and Venezuela, Nicaragua has been described by the Trump administration as part of a “Troika of tyranny” in the region. Following the US-backed coup in Bolivia that removed Evo Morales and the Movement…
US Imperialism in Nicaragua and the Making of Sandino
Martin Pastor Nicaragua’s twentieth-century history cannot be told without placing the United States government as the main antagonist. It is their active interventions that have shaped the Central American country’s political, economic and social systems, but it is also the opposing forces to this imperialist aggression that has served as a counterbalance to writing the…
Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond
Dan Kovalik and Camera Viva Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond is a documentary film that explores the troubling events of the summer of 2018 in which much of Nicaragua was enveloped in chaos and violence. The film, which includes interviews with Nicaraguans from Managua, Leon, Grenada and the rural town of Santa Teresa, as…
Nicaragua: Real Politics
Moisés Absalón Pastora Cuba’s apostle José Martí, a virtuoso in Spanish-American politics and literature, once said that what is real in politics is not what we see. I understand his remark, full of absolute truth, assimilating it and embracing it more, to the extent that my experiences now permit me to make analyses that go…
Solid Social Consensus Supporting Sandinista Government Two Years Before the 2021 Elections
Jorge Capelán Nicaragua is overcoming the events of 2018 and is back on track. This is the opinion of 6 out of 10 Nicaraguans according to the M&R SISMO LXI survey released this week. According to the SISMO LXI study for the last quarter of 2019, which was taken until Monday, January 13, 2020 from…
