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NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s inconvenient Covid victory: Western media covered up its success

10Dec

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Health, Nicaragua

NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s inconvenient Covid victory: Western media covered up its success

By John Perry [John Perry is based in Masaya, Nicaragua, and writes for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, London Review of Books, FAIR and other outlets.] (This article was first published on the UnHerd webpage at: https://unherd.com/2022/11/nicaraguas-inconvenient-covid-victory/) Nicaragua’s community-based health teams have ensured that 86% of the population is fully vaccinated [two shots] against Covid, the highest rate in Central America. (Photo: PAHO) In Nicaragua, Latin America’s third poorest country, people who don’t work don’t eat. Three-quarters of jobs are in small businesses and farms or the informal economy. So, when its first Covid case was diagnosed on 18 March 2020, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega knew that shutting down the economy would be cata...

NicaNotes: Sign-on Letter: Supporting Nicaragua’s Sovereignty, Honoring Its Achievements!

9Dec

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Nicaragua

NicaNotes: Sign-on Letter: Supporting Nicaragua’s Sovereignty, Honoring Its Achievements!

December 8, 2022 [Versión en español] Dear friends, We are asking for your help to de-escalate hostility against the people of Nicaragua. Will you endorse the statement below entitled “SUPPORTING NICARAGUA’S SOVEREIGNTY, HONORING ITS ACHIEVEMENTS,” and forward this message to friends and organizations? To endorse, just send an email to NicaraguaAdvocacyNetwork@gmail.com , providing your full name, your organization (if any), and whether you are signing as an individual or on behalf of your organization. Collection of signatures is ongoing. On November 10, 2022, an online White House statement announced that President Biden had invoked emergency powers on October 24, declaring Nicaragua a continuing “unusual and extraordinary th...

Left Resurgence in Latin America and Tasks Ahead

6Dec

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Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

Left Resurgence in Latin America and Tasks Ahead

LATIN AMERICA: LEFT RESURGENCE, FAR RIGHT THREATS Recent developments in Latin America epitomise the global struggle between a resurgent left, and a powerful, internationally linked far-right, between visions of social justice and environmental protection, and a destructive corporate capitalism bent on escalating plunder. The rise to power of left wing political forces in Chile and Colombia, and the hair's-breadth defeat of the fascist Bolsonaro by Lula's Worker's Party in Brazil have been deeply heartening for progressive observers across the world. At the same time, there are many complexities to this picture including the limitations of 'post-neoliberal' welfare measures based on extractivism and high commodity prices, continuing deeply embedded structural racism and exclusion o...

Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 years resisting imperialism

7Oct

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Nicaragua

Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 years resisting imperialism

Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. ByBenjamin Norton Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. https://youtu.be/VSGjkKkNGy0 Transcript LYRICS: This is the war that can’t be held back, the ongoing war against the oppressor. What is the symbol? The people never give in. Never! What is the symbol? FSLN! (Sandinista National Liberation Front) ...

5Oct

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Nicaragua

Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 years resisting imperialism

Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. ByBenjamin Norton Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the Sandinista Front’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSGjkKkNGy0?feature=oembed Transcript LYRICS: This is the war that can’t be held back, the ongoing war against the oppressor. What is the symbol? The people never give in. Never! What is the symbol? FSLN! (Sandinista...

US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

5Oct

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China, Nicaragua, Russia, USA

US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Analyzing the geopolitical crisis, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said the US war on China and Russia is an attack on the new world of “multipolarism,” because “North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy.” ByBenjamin Norton In a fiery speech denouncing US imperialism, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega analyzed the shifting balance of power in the world today. He explained that “a new order is being born in the world that buries imperialism, buries the colonialists, and opens the way to a democracy of nations, a multipolarism that is manifesting itself in various ways.” But in an attempt to halt this transition to a multipolar world, the United States is waging war on China and Russia, Ortega c...

Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system

5Oct

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Nicaragua

Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system

An inside look at the free universal health-care system created by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which has saved countless lives. ByBecca Mohally Renk Orla receiving free treatment in a Nicaraguan public hospital Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí. (This piece was originally published by the Casa Benjamin Linder.) We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only 10 of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their caretakers – mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in chairs or curled around their patients on the beds. A few of us stretch out on un...

Catholic Church backed violent coup attempt in Nicaragua, meddles in politics

5Oct

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Nicaragua

Catholic Church backed violent coup attempt in Nicaragua, meddles in politics

Foreign media outlets falsely accuse Nicaragua’s Sandinista government of repressing the Catholic Church, while ignoring its role in supporting a violent coup attempt in 2018 and sponsoring extremist opposition groups. ByBecca Mohally Renk A deluge of misleading stories claiming that the Nicaraguan government has repressed the Catholic Church have appeared in international media, but not one has accurately explained what is happening. In the article below, Becca Renk, who has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001, explains the country’s complex relationship with the Catholic Church and shows how Western media reporting is extremely inaccurate. Credit: Casa Benjamín Linder (Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí.) ...

How US govt-funded Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista media spread fake news – and lied about me

4Oct

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Media, Nicaragua, USA

How US govt-funded Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista media spread fake news – and lied about me

Right-wing Nicaraguan media outlets funded by the US government constantly spread blatant fake news to attack the Sandinistas – and defamed journalist Benjamin Norton with demonstrably false claims. ByBenjamin Norton (Se puede leer esta nota en español aquí.) Ever since the leftist Sandinista Front returned to power through democratic elections in Nicaragua in 2006, the US government has poured tens of millions of dollars into funding right-wing media outlets in the country. This present journalist, Benjamin Norton, has documented how CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) bankroll these anti-Sandinista media outlets that played a key role in a bloody 2018 coup attempt, spreading fa...

Imperialism and capitalism are ‘bleeding the world dry’: At UN, Nicaragua calls for global rebellion

2Oct

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Nicaragua, UN

Imperialism and capitalism are ‘bleeding the world dry’: At UN, Nicaragua calls for global rebellion

Posted by: John Phoenix At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order. ByBenjamin Norton Denis Moncada (Se puede leer esta nota en español aquí.) Nicaragua’s Sandinista government used its platform at the United Nations General Assembly to call for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” https://youtu.be/DcsYtdEIQu0 “It is time to say enough to the hypocritical imperialism that politicizes, falsifies, and denigrates human rights, that they themselves violate and deny every day,” declared...