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Nicaragua Social and Economic Advances

Renk, Becca. “The Best Health Care Money Can’t Buy: Nicaragua’s Free Universal System.” NicaNotes, 13 July 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-the-best-health-care-money-cant-buy-nicaraguas-free-universal-system

McKenzie, Roger. “Education for the Good of Humanity: An interview with Salvador Vanegas about Nicaragua’s Education Policies.” Morning Star Online, 30 May, 2023. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/education-for-the-good-of-humanity

Osorto, Marcel. “Honduran Children Along the Coco River are Educated in Nicaraguan Schools.” NicaNotes, 22 July 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-06-22-2023

Littlejohn, Coleen. “The Experience of Nicaragua in Managing the Covid Pandemic.” NicaNotes, 25 May 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-05-25-2023

Kohn, Rick. “What We Learned about AgroEcology from Nicaragua.” NicaNotes, 11 May 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-05-11-2023 [In Spanish: https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1758]

Renk, Becca. Unity Through Sports: Nicaragua Participates in ALBA Games. NicaNotes, 4 May 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-05-04-2023 [In Spanish: https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1711]

NSCAG May 2023 Update: https://www.nscag.org/resources/NSCAG%20MAY%20UPDATE.pdf

NSCAG. “ Inspiring Social and Economic Advances in Nicaragua.” 13 May 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/?page=10

Clark-Gollub, Jill and Perry, John. “Book Review: Nicaragua: A history of US Intervention & Resistance, By Dan Kovalik. COHA, 29 April 2023. https://www.coha.org/book-review-nicaragua-a-history-of-us-intervention-resistance-by-daniel-kovalik/

Ortega, Daniel. “A Nation’s Sovereignty and Dignity are Not Negotiable.” NicaNotes, 16 Feb. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-02-16-2023

Willson, S. Brian. “Nicaragua’s flower Is in Full Bloom Despite US’s Vicious Efforts to Destroy It.” NicaNotes, 2 Feb. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-02-02-2023

Vega, Erving. “Sixteen Years of Sandinista Government.” NicaNotes, 26 Jan. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-01-26-2023

Interview, Estudio TN8. “Nicaragua Stands Out in Latin America with Its Lower Poverty Rate.” NicaNotes, 19 Jan. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-1-19-2023

Tourism

Tourist Map of Nicaragua, 23 May 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/?page=5

Tourism in Nicaragua: A practical guide, 23 May 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1811

Adventure Tourism in Nicaragua. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1809

2018 Coup Attempt, Current Destabilization and Efforts to Defend Nicaragua

Perry, John. “Nicaragua: On the Fifth Anniversary of a Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist.” COHA, 7 July 2023. https://coha.org/nicaragua-fifth-anniversary-of-coup/

Perry, John. “Masaya in Flames: Five Years Afterwards.” Counterpunch, 29 May 2023. https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/29/masaya-in-flames-five-years-afterwards/

Kovalik, Dan and Perry, John. “The Attempted Coup in Nicaragua in 2018: Why Support for it Collapsed.” Morning Star, 27 June 2023. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/attempted-2018-coup-nicaragua-why-its-support-collapsed

Mendoza, Edwin. “Defending Nicaragua During the 2018 Coup Attempt.” NicaNotes, 1 June 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-06-01-2023

Kovalik, Dan and Perry, John. “’Peaceful Protest’ a Tool for Regime Change.” Morning Star, 14 May 2023. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/how-peaceful-protests-nicaragua-became-attempted-coup-john-perry-and-dan-kovalik

Kovalik, Dan and Perry, John. “Five Years Ago in Nicaragua a Coup Attempt Begins.” MRonline, 12 April 2023. https://mronline.org/2023/04/12/five-years-ago-in-nicaragua-a-coup-attempt-begins/

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. “A Timeline of Events in Nicaragua, April – July 2018.” Tortilla con Sal, 13 April 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1603

Clark-Gollub, Jill. “Reconciliation does not Mean Forgetting in Nicaragua.” NicaNotes, 16 March 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-03-16-2023

Perry, John. “Nicaragua’s ‘Political Prisoners’ Would be Criminals by US Standards.” FAIR, 2 March 2023. https://fair.org/home/nicaraguas-political-prisoners-would-be-criminals-by-us-standards/

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. “Why 222 Nicaraguan Criminals Were Deported and Why They and Others Lost Their Citizenship.” Nicasolidarity.net, 2 March 2023. http://nicasolidarity.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Blog-2023-03-02.pdf

Human Rights, Illegal Coercive Measures…

Flounders, Sara. “Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy.” NicaNotes, 13 April 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-04-13-2023

Perry, John. “The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua.” Covert Action Magazine, April 1, 2023. https://covertactionmagazine.com/tag/nicaragua/ https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/01/the-united-nations-is-being-used-by-the-u-s-in-its-propaganda-war-against-nicaragua/

NSCAG. “Action Alert: UN Human Rights Report on Nicaragua is Fatally Flawed and Should be Withdrawn. NicaNotes, 23 March 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-03-23-2023

Advances for Women

Renk, Becca. “We’re Not Fighting for Space Anymore.” NicaNotes, 9 March 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-03-09-2023

Delegation Report Back (January 2023). “Women in Nicaragua: Power and Active Participation.” NicaNotes, 23 Feb. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-02-23-2023

The Catholic Church as an Arm of the Empire

Casari, Fabrizio. “Money Under the Cassock.” NicaNotes, 8 June 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-06-08-2023

Renk, Becca. “Gracias a Dios: The People’s Church in Nicaragua.” NicaNotes, 30 March 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-03-30-2023

Casari, Fabrizio. “ Saint Peter Loses His Balance.” El 19 Digital, 13 Marzo 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1427

Capelán, Jorge. “Vulgar Popes, Decrepit Churches, Small Homelands and Large Homelands.” Managua con Amor, 13 March 2023. https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1428

Migration

McCurdy, Nan. “Nicaraguan Immigration Down Despite US Efforts to Encourage it.” Covert Action Magazine, 18 May 2023. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/05/18/nicaraguan-immigration-down-despite-u-s-efforts-to-encourage-it/ [In Spanish: https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1798]

McCurdy, Nan. “New US Immigration Policies’ Effect on Nicaragua.” Dissident Voice, 11 Feb. 2023. https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/new-us-immigration-policies-effect-on-nicaragua/

Perry, John. “Nicaraguan migrants at the U.S. border – are they being “pushed” or “pulled?” NicaNotes, 5 Jan. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-1-5-2023

Nicaragua and Latin America

Harris, Roger D. “Latin America and Caribbean, Year 2022 in Review – Challenges for a Pink Tide Surging Over a Volatile US Hegemony.” NicaNotes, 12 Jan. 2023. https://afgj.org/nicanotes-01-12-2023