WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NICARAGUA Statement in Support of Nicaragua Task Force on the Americas[1] July 1, 2018 For more than a decade, Nicaragua was: The safest country in Latin America.[2] Its police force was internationally recognized for its innovative community policing policies. Unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, where undocumented immigrants were fleeing … Read More

TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS invites you: VENEZUELA RESISTS Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:00-4:00 pm Faye Hinze’s PEACE HOUSE 18 Seminole Av. Corte Madera The Venezuelan people reelected Nicolás Maduro for a second presidential term, bucking a US-backed political tide of reaction. The US and the rightwing opposition in Venezuela had demanded an election boycott … Read More

Camilo E. Mejia on June 13, 2018 Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. I open this letter quoting Donatella Rovera, who at the time this quote was made had been one of Amnesty International’s field investigators … Read More

By Chuck Kaufman on June 6, 2018 As the crisis in Nicaragua intensifies and the US and European corporate media, the human rights industrial complex, and voices traditionally hostile to Nicaraguan sovereignty grow ever more strident, I have become mystified at the reactions of some people who I used to think were of the Left, … Read More

By Roger D. Harris, Task Force board member Ed. Note: Roger Harris was an election observer in Venezuela for both of Maduro’s elections, most recently on a Venezuela Analysis/Intrepid News Fund delegation. The hall went silent at the National Electoral Council (CNE) on the evening of May 20th as the five poker-faced officials filed in. … Read More