Tag: Central America
Chicopipe, Nicaragua, August 1985: Lest We Forget What Our Wars Really Mean
My wife Lucy and I lived in Nicaragua (1985-1987) during the Contra War of the 1980s as members of the long-term team of Witness for Peace. Our work was to document the effects of the war in rural...
That tension—between the ideal of the United States as a leading champion of democracy on the one hand and a leading destroyer of democracy on the other—remains the often-unacknowledged fault line running through American politics today.- Jonathan M. Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and...
In the wind-up to July 19th festivities celebrating the overthrow of its U.S.-installed puppet dictator Anastasio Somoza, the U.S. State Department issued a dire warning to travelers. Only Washington could twist the concept of a national celebration of freedom into a “demonstration.”
Only Washington could project and apply the attacks...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., public systems are crumbling or being sold off to private corporations
Upon landing in Miami, a TSA agent asked me where I had just come from. “Nicaragua,” I said. “Aren't the people there poor?” he asked.
His inquisitiveness surprised me, but I went with it: “Yes, there...
The island of Roatán is one of the most idyllic places in the Caribbean, with beautiful beaches, crystal-clear waters, and luxurious hotels. Although it belongs to Honduras, English is widely spoken there. In 2024, it was selected as one of the best places in the world by Time magazine...
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...
Colonel Ralph Van Deman assisted in cover-up with General John J. Pershing
In March 1916, General John J. Pershing, the father of U.S. military intelligence who commanded U.S. forces in World War I, led a punitive expedition into Mexico targeting Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a revolutionary who wanted to redistribute...
“The change will be profound and irreversible” asserted Costa Rica’s president-elect, Laura Fernández. The ruling Sovereign People’s Party (PPSO) won the election in the first round with a commanding 48.3% of valid votes cast, nearly 15 percentage points ahead of the National Liberation Party (PLN), the old social democracy.
The...
On February 22, 2026, the Mexican military mounted an operation, assisted by the CIA, that killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the 59-year-old head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who had a $15 million bounty on his head.
A few hours later, Donald Trump tweeted “We’re Winning too much,...
In a December CovertAction Magazine article, I described the Honduran presidential election of November 30 and the accusations of fraud that surrounded it.
Since then, the electoral crisis has only deepened. And the widely criticized and blatant interventions of U.S. President Donald Trump in favor of National Party candidate Nasry...
