Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006
Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of the poverty and their traditional sex role imposes on them.
On them falls sole responsibility...
Under Stewardship of Original Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua Remains a Beacon for Social Progress Despite Crushing U.S. Sanctions
In the United States, the word “socialism” has come to have a negative meaning. In that meaning, the word implies the loss of individual sovereignty, rejection of religion and the institution...
“Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people all of the time. I think the U.S. and Nicaraguan people can work together to...
“A 60 Minutes team actually come to Nicaragua to interview the people that live here whose lives have improved amazingly since 2007 with free universal education and health care.”
Dear 60 Minutes:
I was appalled to see your program on Nicaragua of June 19, 2022.
I have enjoyed many other 60...
New Biden administration measures may make it easier to apply for asylum.
Nicaragua migration north had been very low for 14 years, always under 1,000 border encounters per month. This is especially low when compared to border encounters with people from the Northern Triangle nations of Guatemala, El Salvador and...
The June 23 BBC article by Bernd Debusmann, “US Immigration: They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” confirms that the corporate media consistently make every article an attack on its Sandinista Government.
Of four Nicaraguans interviewed for this article from the department of Esteli, two are peasants from villages, one...
Survivor of Radio Station Attack By U.S. Backed Criminals During 2018 Coup Attempt Recounts Harrowing Ordeal
Carlos Alfaro León, 46, is a sports journalist who covers baseball and boxing matches for La Nueva Radio Ya, Nicaragua’s top rated radio station.
León has served as a press aide for Nicaragua’s national baseball...
But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote for, with Sandinista Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega Poised to Win
The Sandinista party won with 62% of the vote in the 2011 elections and with 72.5% in 2016.
Polls show the Sandinista Party winning as much as 70% of...
United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago.
Yet, for them, Nicaragua is “a giant prison” in which the Sandinista government “has effectively taken its own population hostage.”
According to lawyer...
On January 10, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated President and Rosario Murillo was inaugurated as Vice President. The central event in the Plaza of the Revolution was accompanied by Sandinistas celebrating in almost every town with big-screen displays of the inauguration.
Once he had been sworn in, with the presidential sash...
