Sandinista
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Biden Sanctions Nicaragua (Again)
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Nicaragua’s state-owned mining enterprises. Revenue from these mining operations funds Nicaragua’s social welfare programs. The move comes less than 2 weeks before President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista party is expected to secure major victories in local elections. Continue reading
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Fire from the Mountain: An Interview with Nicaragua’s Comandante Omar Cabezas
We interview Omar Cabezas, legendary Sandinista guerilla and author of Fire From the Mountain, about Nicaragua today, the state of the Sandinista Revolution, and his feelings about Daniel Ortega Continue reading
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Sandinistas Win By a Landslide! U.S. Dirty Tricks Fail in Derailing Nicaraguan Democracy
In the lead up to the February 25, 1990 elections, President George H.W. Bush told the Nicaraguan people that the U.S. would keep funding the Contras (counter-revolutionaries recruited, funded and directed by President Reagan, the State Department and the CIA in 1980s illegal war), block loans and maintain the brutal economic blockade where Nicaragua couldn’t… Continue reading
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Sandinistas Poised to Win Election in Nicaragua Despite U.S. Sabotage and Smears
The Nicaraguan elections are on Nov. 7, 2021. The U.S. government, the media that does its bidding, and even some self-described “leftists,” present a Nicaragua in “turmoil” and “crisis”—and the elections as a farce. Continue reading
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Nicaragua’s Benedict Arnolds – political opposition as organized crime
Ever since they lost badly in the 2011 elections to the Frente Sandinista, Nicaragua’s political opposition has divided into conventional political parties working in the country’s legislature and an extra-parliamentary opposition based in local NGOs. The U.S. government, in particular, gave up supporting Nicaragua’s opposition political parties financially so as to focus on consolidating an… Continue reading
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Nicaragua Under Daniel Ortega's Second Presidency: Daniel-Style Politics as Usual?
Daniel Ortega, popular from his days as the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), has twice served as President of Nicaragua. First known as a fiery revolutionary during his initial term in office, Ortega now presents himself as a mature politician devoted to enacting social change at the service of his beloved country… Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 4
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part Four Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 3
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part Three Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 2
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordfinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part Two Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 1
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordfinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part One Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution
Many of the revolution’s promises remain unfulfilled? On July 19, 1979, the Sandinista revolution removed what many considered to be one of Latin America’s most brutal dictatorships. Thirty years later, and with the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega once again in power, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visited Nicaragua and found that many of the revolution’s promises… Continue reading
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COHA: Nicaragua Under the Second Coming of the Sandinistas
Daniel Ortega has been a better president with far greater concern about his country’s living standards and its attitude toward its poor and deprived majority, than any Nicaraguan president since the defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 