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Nicaragua 1979-2019

18 July 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Nathan Legrand

THE NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT’S violent repression against demonstrators protesting its brutal neoliberal policies, resulting in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is only one of the reasons why various leftist (...)
Nicaragua: Open letter to Daniel Ortega to demand the end of repression and freedom for political prisoners

16 February 2019 - by Collectif de militants/tes de la solidarité en Belgique avec le peuple du Nicaragua

Mr. President, We are activists, former volunteers and leaders of associations and non-governmental organizations, all from different political and philosophical backgrounds. The earthquake of December the 23rd 1972 was for many of us the (...)
Éric Toussaint talks about Nicaragua with Bill Fletcher on US radio

19 January 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Bill Fletcher

On January, Friday the 18th, Éric Toussaint was interviewed by Bill Fletcher for WPFW FM, a progressive Washington based radio station, about the current situation in Nicaragua. You can listen to the interview below. Éric Toussaint made frequent (...)
Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed

5 January 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Nathan Legrand

The violent repression against demonstrators protesting brutal neoliberal policies, which resulted in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is just one of the reasons why different leftist social movements have (...)
Nicaragua: New attacks against democratic freedoms

19 December 2018 - by Collective

The 12th December, in continuation of the policy of suppression of any criticism against the Ortega-Murillo government, a majority of members of the National Assembly of Nicaragua voted the withdrawal of the legal personality of the CENIDH (...)
Nicaragua: From 2007 to 2018, Daniel Ortega Had the Support of the IMF and Conducted Policies Favourable to Big National and International Capital

5 November 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

The principal detonator of the protests that began in April 2018 in Nicaragua was the imposition by Daniel Ortega’s government of neoliberal measures that impacted social protection, and in particular retirements. These measures were the result (...)
A Brief History of the Relations between the World Bank, the IMF, the US Government and Nicaragua

14 August 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

Central America is considered by the US government as part of its own exclusive sphere of influence. The policies adopted by the World Bank in terms of granting loans to the countries of the region are directly influenced by the political (...)
Nicaragua: The evolution of the regime of President Daniel Ortega since 2007

13 August 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

In order to win the presidential election of November 2006, Daniel Ortega succeeded in making his election acceptable to the ruling classes, and in particular to the COSEP (Superior Council for Private Enterprise), the leadership of the Roman (...)
Nicaragua in Pain

7 August 2018 - by Claudio Katz

Writing about Nicaragua is as painful and sad as it is indispensable. Memories of the Sandinista Revolution are still alive for the generation that lived through it. To remain silent would be an affront to those who took part in that memorable (...)
Nicaragua: the story of the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime

26 July 2018 - by Eric Toussaint

The violence against demonstrators protesting against brutal neoliberal policies is just one of the reasons why different social movements have condemned the Nicaraguan regime led by Daniel Ortega and the Vice-president Rosario Murillo. The left (...)
Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua withdraw together from the ICSID

DECISION OF ALBA-PTA ON ICSID Member countries (Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua) of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and Peoples’ Trade Agreements (PTA) have emphatically rejected legal, diplomatic and media pressure (...)
El Fmi en Nicaragua

11 de julio de 2006 - por Adolfo Acevedo Vogl

Adolfo Acevedo Vogl entrevistado por INTERMON OXFAM
Building Without a Foundation

Why the G8 Debt Relief Plan Won’t Help Nicaragua’s Poor

8 July 2005 - by Sean Donahue

Achualinca sprawls out from the edge of the dump on the shores of Lake Managua, a barrio of improbably well cared for houses thrown together from whatever materials people could scavenge—tin, plywood, tar paper, cardboard, plywood. In the all but (...)
Free Market Corruption, Neo-liberal Pretexts

Poor People Can’t Be Engineers

Newsweek recently ran an article on money laundering in Latin America. It identified Nicaragua’s ex-President Arnoldo Aleman as one of a super-corrupt elite along with Mexico’s Carlos Salinas and Guatemala’s Alfonso Portillo. But, these individuals (...)