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20Jul

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Who is behind the protests in Nicaragua?

NOVANEWS By Sergio Alejandro Gómez Public domain image. Liberation News translation from original article in Granma, Cuba’s daily newspaper. What seemed like a simple citizen protest over the increase in social security contributions in Nicaragua, culminated last week in a wave of violence that leaves at least a dozen dead and hundreds of establishments destroyed. Given the level of organization shown, the extent of the damage and the participation of criminal groups, key questions arise: What is the origin of the demonstrations? Who are behind the most violent groups? The demonstrations took off in the middle of last week as a reaction to a reform of the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security (INSS). The measure of the Sandinista Executive planned to increase the contribution of ...

19Jul

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua Burning

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr From: Loud & Clear Interviews LIKE DOWNLOAD EMBED News & Information, #america, #latin, #nicaragua, #ortega, #regimechange, #sandinistas On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined from Managua, Nicaragua, by Max Blumenthal, the senior editor of Grayzone Project, bestselling author whose latest book is “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,” and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels,” and Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer who is the author of “The Plot to attack Iran.” Nicaragua is in deep crisis since protests began three months ago as opponents of the government...See More To learn more about the crisis in Nicaragua and the U.S.-back...

11Jul

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Correcting the Record: What Is Really Happening in Nicaragua?

NOVANEWS By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune Global Research Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Featured image: A massive peace march was held on July 8, 2018, in Managua showing support for the Nicaraguan government. (Source: UK Morning Sun) There is a great deal of false and inaccurate information about Nicaragua in the media. Even on the left some have simply repeated the dubious claims of CNN and Nicaragua’s oligarchic media to support removal of President Ortega. This article seeks to correct the record, describe what is happening in Nicaragua and why. As we write this, the coup seems to be failing, people have rallied for peace (as this massive march for peace held Saturday July 7 showed) and the truth is coming out. It is important to understand what is o...

26Jun

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Nicaragua at the Barricades

NOVANEWS ...And a Crossroads By Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch On April 19th, university students in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, exploded onto the streets. Their initial demand? A more effective government response to wildfires burning out of control in the country’s most precious repository of biodiversity. Soon, a social wildfire took hold in Managua and then spread across the country. Thousands of Nicaraguans added a second demand to the first: for President Daniel Ortega to revoke his recent changes to the country’s social security law, which had simultaneously raised social security taxes (upsetting private enterprise) and cut benefits to seniors (angering many ordinary people). In the ensuing clashes, close to 200 Nicaraguans have died, hundreds have been arrested, and thou...

24May

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Nicaragua: Extortion, Dialogue And A Longing for Peace

NOVANEWS Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo attend the opening of a national dialogue, in Managua, Nicaragua, May 16, 2018. AP | Alfredo Zuniga Since April 23, right-wing extremists in Nicaragua have murdered government supporters, attacked municipal offices and police; vandalized and looted commercial property and have shot numerous police officers. Yet the arbitrators of the reconciliation process openly side with them. By Tortilla Con Sal Recent experience confirms that the Latin American and the Caribbean right-wing, like the U.S. government, cannot be trusted to comply with agreements. That has been true for Cuba’s revolutionary government in its direct talks with the U.S. authorities; for Colombia’s FARC former guerrillas over governmen...

20May

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Nicaragua

An Urgent Call for Solidarity with Nicaragua

NOVANEWS Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo (Rural Workers Association) Friends in Solidarity, We have lived a month full of tragedy in our country. The peace we achieved as a people, so fragile and at the cost of so many lives, is in immanent danger of disappearing irreparably. There are now two sizeable camps of the population with dangerously contrary positions. On one side, there is a combination of private university students, media outlets with rightwing owners representing the oligarchy, Catholic Church bishops close to Opus Dei, the private sector and, of course, the US Embassy, working together to create a situation of chaos in the country in order to remove president Daniel Ortega. This group of actors accuses the National Police of having killed dozens of protestors in the r...

22Apr

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Nicaragua, USA

Nicaragua: Next in Line for Regime Change?

NOVANEWS The pattern is similar to events in Libya, Syria and Venezuela, where extreme right-wing political minorities conspired with foreign elites to overthrow the national status quo. By Tortilla Con Sal teleSUR Events in Nicaragua over the past week are clearly modeled on the kind of U.S.-led, NATO-driven regime change that succeeded in Libya, Ivory Coast and Ukraine, but has so far failed in Thailand, Syria and Venezuela. At a national level, the protests have been led by the private sector business classes defending their rate of profit against socialist policies in defense of low-income workers and people on pensions. The Events So Far Since April 18, violent protests have taken place across Nicaragua. The protests began a couple of days after the government announced pr...

4Jan

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The Psyops Manual the CIA Gave to Nicaragua’s Contras Is Totally Bonkers

NOVANEWS By Jared Keller Task & Purpose During the U.S. government’s decade-long support of the Contra rebels who waged an armed campaign against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista regime in the 1980s, the CIA funneled all manner of assistance to the anti-socialist “freedom fighters,” from training and financial assistance to covert operations. The original “advise and assist” mission was a disaster in retrospect, spurring all manner of human rights violations as well as the modern crack cocaine scourge. But the CIA aid program’s most fascinating product might be the batshit crazy psychological warfare manual cooked up for the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries. First described to the Associated Press by the House Intelligence Committee in October 1984, the guide to “psychologi...

2Sep

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Nicaragua’s Sandinista Achievements Baffle World Bank, IMF

NOVANEWS teleSUR No one can take at face value any report, governmental or quasi non-governmental, coming out of the imperialist bureaucracy in Washington. Ideological bias and institutional self-justification prevent these reports from giving a true account of virtually anything. The latest World Bank report on Nicaragua is no exception. The implicit but unstated truth in this report is that President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista National Liberation Front have achieved an unprecedented economic turnaround in just seven years, starting in 2010. Reading the report, it is impossible to ignore the tension between latent ideological and political imperatives and the obligation to report the facts. Put another way, mild conflict clearly prevails between the World Bank’s Washington head ...

6Aug

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Nicaragua: Global ‘False’ Witness

NOVANEWS By Tortilla con Sal | teleSUR Global Witness is a well-established environmental and human rights non-governmental organization based in Britain. As with many other similar organizations, its reports often figure in news media as authoritative sources on international issues. Ever since the 1980s and, increasingly so, after the turn of the century, the status of NGOs as trustworthy information sources on foreign affairs has become increasingly untenable as they have been more and more co-opted by corporate interests and governments to promote the Western elites’ neocolonial global policy agenda. In the case of Nicaragua, in 2016 Global Witness produced a brief, flawed and unreliable account of land conflicts in Nicaragua’s Northern Caribbean Autonomous Region in a report called...