2021
Welcome to Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition archive where you can find informative, well-researched articles from sources that respect Nicaragua’s sovereignty & affirm its achievements.
Flounders, Sara. “Nicaragua, with Free Health care and Education, Challenges U.S. Domination.” Workers World, 20 October 2021. https://www.workers.org/2021/10/59693/?fbclid=IwAR1mHwrUEfY3BH_OUeN1XvjXeUN1Jvp7oGWNnGXvTv9aoDy0eCLbdFXwJac
Mohally-Renk, Becca. “Nicaragua is the Exception: Letter to a Cynic.” Center for Development in Central America, 7 October 2021. https://jhc-cdca.blogspot.com/2021/10/nicaragua-is-exception-letter-to-cynic.html
Mohally-Renk, Becca. “Nicaragua’s New Way.” Morning Star, 5 October 2021. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/nicaraguas-new-way
Richards, Louise. “Violence Against Women: Lessons from Nicaragua.” AFGJ.org NicaNotes, 1 April 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-violence-against-women-lessons-from-nicaragua
Stoll, Roger. “Book Review: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped.” Popular Resistance, 10 April 2021. https://popularresistance.org/book-review-the-revolution-wont-be-stopped/
Nicaragua, COP26, Climate Justice and Reparations
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaragua-cop26-climate-justice-and-reparations
Nicaragua’s Foreign Agents Law Explained
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaraguas-foreign-agents-law-explained
2021 Election Coverage
Varughese, Julie. “Busting Myths that Aid US Aggression on Nicaragua.” Toward Freedom, 24 Nov. 2021. https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/busting-myths-that-aid-u-s-aggression-on-nicaragua/
Perry, John. “If There was “Fraud” in Nicaragua’s Elections, Where is the Proof?” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 16 Nov. 2021. https://www.coha.org/if-there-was-fraud-in-nicaraguas-elections-where-is-the-proof/
Kimberley, Margaret. “U.S. Threatens Regime Change in Nicaragua.” Black Agenda Report, 10 November 2021. https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-threatens-regime-change-nicaragua
Varughese, Julie. “After Daniel Ortega’s Victory in Nicaragua, Biden signs RENACER Act and OAS Votes to Condemn.” Toward Freedom, 14 November 2021. https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/after-daniel-ortegas-victory-in-nicaragua-biden-signs-renacer-act-and-oas-votes-to-condemn/
Harris, Roger. “Nicaragua has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem.”
Dissident Voice, 12 November 2021. https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/11/nicaragua-has-a-public-relations-problem-not-a-democracy-problem/
Rita Jill Clark-Gollub. “Despite US led Dirty Campaign, Nicaraguans Came Out in Support of the FSLN to Vote.” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 12 November 2021. https://www.coha.org/despite-us-led-dirty-campaign-nicaraguans-came-out-in-force-in-support-of-the-fsln/
Kimberley, Margaret. “What We Saw is Not What the Corporate Media Tells Us.” NicaNotes, afgj.org. 11 November 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-11-11-2021
Sterling, Rick. “What I Saw on Election Day in Nicaragua.” LA Progressive, 11 November 2021. https://www.laprogressive.com/election-day-in-nicaragua/?fbclid=IwAR178Dq7Us5ysofm_sEehXd7XuaaIzN1u8IGLPrHJI7rpJRo_C3x4XiE_6k
“North Americans Debunk US & OAS Claims on Nicaragua Election.” Kawsachun News, 10 Nov. 2021. https://kawsachunnews.com/north-americans-debunk-us-oas-claims-on-nicaragua-election
McCurdy, Nan. “Sandinistas Win by a Landslide! U.S. Dirty Tricks Fail in Derailing Nicaraguan Democracy.” Covert Action Magazine, 9 November 2021. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/11/09/sandinistas-win-by-a-landslide-u-s-dirty-tricks-fail-in-derailing-nicaraguan-democracy/?fbclid=IwAR2klyMtQAEgU_XAB3ehfGvF-_1_6vgwHr2RA0orCTKwI2XpSlUfhInRWSo
Harris, Roger. “Nicaragua Celebrates Democracy – Election Day Report.” Resumen, 7 November 2021. https://www.resumen-english.org/2021/11/nicaragua-celebrates-democracy-election-day-report/?fbclid=IwAR12hvT_P-5Un8K_qf7_TjUec-8YRRgwVVokkx2P3fzeWV0H1PbFEv_askA#more-18958
Black Alliance for Peace. “Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality.” Communications@blackallianceforpeace.com, 5 November 2021. https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/2021/11/5/black-alliance-for-peace-condemns-renacer-act-on-nicaragua-as-bipartisan-criminality
McCurdy, Nan. “Electoral Contras: US Plotting to Sabotage Nicaraguan Democracy Yet Again.” Covert Action Magazine, 3 November 2021. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/11/03/electoral-contras-u-s-plotting-to-sabotage-nicaraguan-democracy-yet-again/
McCurdy, Nan. “United States Trying to Sabotage Nicaragua’s Elections Yet Again.” NicaNotes afgj.org, 4 November 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-11-04-2021
Freeman, Netfa. “Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua.” Black Agenda Report, 2 November 2021. https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-black-revolutionaries-must-stand-people-nicaragua
On US interference in the elections and/or US coup plotting and financing of opposition
Sefton, Stephen. “Sergio Ramirez on Nicaragua: Treason All Over Again...” Irelandindefenceofhumanity.com, 27 September 2021. https://irelandindefenceofhumanity.com/2021/09/27/sergio-ramirez-on-nicaragua-treason-all-over-again/
Lanuza, Yader. “United States Once Again Attacking Government of Nicaragua.” NicaNotes, AFGJ.org, 23 September 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-09-23-2021
Dominguez, Francisco. “An Attack on Nicaragua is an Attack on us All.” Morningstar, 10 September 2021. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/an-attack-on-nicaragua-is-an-attack-on-us-all
Freeman, Netfa. “Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs.” Blackstarnews.com, 25 August 2021. https://www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/justice/nicaragua-at-a-revolutionary-crossroads-and-in-imperialist
Perry, John. “Sanctions May Impoverish Nicaraguans but Likely Will Not Change their Vote.” NACLA, 6 August, 2021. https://nacla.org/sanctions-may-impoverish-nicaraguans-will-not-change-their-vote
Narvaez, Ana. “Nicaragua – Why Does the US Sanction My Country.” Tortilla con Sal, Compas, 3 September, 2021. http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/12806
Harris, Roger. “US Targets Nicaraguan Presidential Election: Former Solidarity Activists Echo Imperial Talking Points.” Counterpunch, 16 July 2021. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/16/us-targets-nicaraguan-presidential-election-former-solidarity-activists-echo-imperial-talking-points/
Clark-Gollub, Rita Jill. “U.S. Cries Foul Because Nicaragua Stops it from Buying This Year’s Elections.” AFGJ.org NicaNotes, 10 June 2021. https://afgj.org/u-s-cries-foul-because-nicaragua-stops-it-from-buying-this-years-elections
Murdock, Kathleen and Mohally Renk, Becca. “What If It Happened Like This in the US?”
AFGJ.org NicaNotes, 24 June 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-what-if-it-happened-like-this-in-the-us
McCurdy, Nan. “The CIA: Attempting Coups in Nicaragua with Tax Dollars through US Agencies and Corporate Foundations - USAID does not provide aid it carries out coups.” Dissident Voice, 18 June 2021. https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/the-cia-attempting-coups-in-nicaragua-with-tax-dollars-through-us-agencies-and-corporate-foundations/
Sefton, Stephen. “Nicaragua’s Political Opposition as Organized Crime.” Telesur, 17 June 2021.
Bolton, Peter. “What the corporate-owned media Won’t Tell You about the Arrests in Nicaragua.” The Canary, 20 June 2021. https://popularresistance.org/heres-what-the-corporate-owned-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-arrests-in-nicaragua/
Condon, Gerry. “Why do the Media Hate Daniel Ortega.” L.A. Progressive, 1 July 2021.
https://www.laprogressive.com/media-hate-daniel-ortega/?amp=1
Fonseca Teran, Carlos. “Nicaragua Responds to ‘Unilateral Coercive Measures by a Hostile Power’.” Global Research, 29 June 2021. https://www.globalresearch.ca/sandinista-nicaragua-more-dignified-victorious-than-ever/5748747
Phillips, James. “Nicaragua, July 4, 1986: Field Notes from a “Secret” War.” Counterpunch, 25 July 2021. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/25/nicaragua-july-4-1986-field-notes-from-a-secret-war/
Sefton, Stephen. “Nicaragua Defends its National Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.” Telesur, 14 June 2021. https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Nicaragua-Defends-Its-National-Sovereignty-and-the-Rule-of-Law-20210614-0011.html?
Perry, John. “The US Stake in Nicaragua and Honduras’s 2021 Elections.” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 8 June 2021. https://www.coha.org/the-us-stake-in-nicaragua-and-hondurass-2021-elections/
Perry, John. “NPR Should Ask Where Nicaraguan Non-Profit’s Money Comes From.” Counterpunch, 24 May 2021. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/npr-should-ask-where-nicaraguan-non-profits-money-comes-from/
Casari, Fabrizio. “Unelectable Coup Mongers.” NicaNotes, 24 January 2021.
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-unelectable-coup-mongers
On the 2021 Elections
McCurdy, Nan. “Basic Information about Nicaragua’s Incredibly Secure Electoral System.” Tortilla con Sal, 17 October 2021. http://www.tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/13116
A Briefing on Electoral Reforms in Nicaragua
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-a-briefing-on-electoral-reforms-in-nicaragua
A Crucial Year for Nicaragua
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-a-crucial-year-for-nicaragua
On Covid-19
Mohally-Renk, Becca. “What Does Health Care For All Look Like.” NicaNotes, AFGJ.org, 30 September 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-09-30-2021
Vandepitt, Marc. “? Porque Nicaragua, Cuba y Venezuela lo Están Haciendo Tan Bien en la Lucha Contra el Covid-19?” Rebelión, 8 junio 2021. https://rebelion.org/por-que-nicaragua-cuba-y-venezuela-lo-estan-haciendo-tan-bien-en-la-lucha-contra-el-covid-19/
Rice, Rohan. “Nicaragua’s Inspiring Response to Covid-19.” Newsclick, 24 May 2021. https://www.newsclick.in/nicaragua-inspiring-response-COVID-19
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/23/nicaraguas-inspiring-response-to-covid-19/
Perry, John. “With Nicaragua Scary Covid Projections are More Newsworthy than Hopeful Results.” Fair, 2 April 2021. https://fair.org/home/with-nicaragua-scary-covid-projections-are-more-newsworthy-than-hopeful-results/
US “Democracy Promotion”
Gill, Timothy M. “From Promoting Political Polyarchy to Defeating Participatory Democracy: US Foreign Policy Towards the Far Left in Latin America.” Journal of World Systems Research, Volume 24, Issue 1. https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/750/1020
US Financing of Media, Human Rights and NGO Disinformation
Knight, Dee. “Summit for Democracy:” The Peak of Hypocrisy.” LA Progressive, 6 Dec. 2021. https://www.laprogressive.com/summit-for-democracy/
Sterling, Rick. “How Billion-dollar Foundations Fund NGOs to Manipulate US Foreign Policy: A Case Study from Nicaragua.” CovertAction Magazine, 8 June 2021. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/08/how-billion-dollar-foundations-fund-ngos-to-manipulate-u-s-foreign-policy-a-case-study-from-nicaragua/
Sterling, Rick. “How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Policy Goals.” Popular Resistance, 23 May 2021. https://popularresistance.org/how-billionaire-foundations-fund-ngos-to-advance-us-foreign-policy-goals/?fbclid=IwAR3Pe-Q-V2OGmvR0NDUYJrc_R7t01ojwcB5tn5TNXQYkP0pQ-XKi6VDLuZc
Willson, S Brian. “Goebbles is Alive in Nicaragua: Relentless US Conspiracy Against Nicaragua by Concocting Fake Narratives and Instituting Terror.” Global Research, 27 April 2021. https://www.globalresearch.ca/goebbels-nicaragua-relentless-us-conspiracy-against-nicaragua-fake-narratives-instituting-terror/5743607
Perry, John. “Nicaragua Rebuffs Attacks at Human Rights Hearing.” AFGJ.org NicaNotes, 25 March 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaragua-rebuffs-attacks-at-human-rights-hearing
Sefton, Stephen. “Nicaragua 2018: Uncensoring the Truth – Testimonies of Victims of Opposition Violence During the Failed Coup Attempt of 2018.” Afgj.org NicaNotes, 7 October 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaragua-2018-uncensoring-the-truth-testimonies-of-victims-of-opposition-violence-during-the-failed-coup-attempt-of-2018
Nicaragua and Migration
Perry, John. “Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’ – or Economic Sanctions?” FAIR, 3 November 2021. https://fair.org/home/are-nicaraguan-migrants-escaping-repression-or-economic-sanctions/
Ricker, Tom. “Migration from Nicaragua.” Quixote Center, 17 September 2021. https://www.quixote.org/migration-from-nicaragua/
Perry, John. “Myths about Nicaraguan Migrants.” NicaNotes, AFGJ.org, 9 September 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-09-09-2021?fbclid=IwAR2Bgg51PuSpM02IVfxVKXWeZNRzqjCw-hTEeZsu6NUy9iWHs_Qu4P8Jl_M
Bolton, Peter. “The Media’s Lies and Lies by Omission, about Migration out of Nicaragua.” Counterpunch, 9 August 2021. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/09/the-medias-lies-and-lies-by-omission-about-migration-out-of-nicaragua/
Nicaragua and Central American Migration
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaragua-and-central-american-migration
Caribbean Coast – Indigenous Peoples – US Media Lies
Perry, John. “Nicaragua’s Rainforest and Indigenous Peoples: a Story of Falsehood, Lies and US-based Political Campaigns.” COHA.org, 24 September 2021. https://www.coha.org/nicaraguas-rainforest-and-indigenous-peoples-a-story-of-falsehood-lies-and-us-based-political-campaigns/
Sefton, Stephen. “Nicaragua’s Indigenous People: Neocolonial Ties, Autonomous Reality.” Afgj.org NicaNotes, 18 March 2021. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-nicaraguas-indigenous-peoples-neocolonial-ties-autonomous-reality
A Conversation with Leaders of the Mayangna Nation part one
https://afgj.org/nicanotes-a-conversation-with-leaders-of-the-mayangna-nation
A Conversation with Leaders of the Mayangna Nation part two
Tortilla con Sal. “Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast: Consensus-Based Progress.” Internationalist 360, 19 May, 2016. https://libya360.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/nicaraguas-caribbean-coast-consensus-based-progress/
Kawsachun News. “ Nicaragua’s Caribbean Autonomous Regions: Valdrak Jaentschke.” Internationalist 360, 6 September 2021. https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/nicaraguas-caribbean-autonomous-regions-valdrack-jaentschke/