A sample of the daily briefing from the Press Office of the Nicaraguan Embassy, Washington DC. NICARAGUA NEWS 14 JULY, 2022 Among world leaders in Gender Parity. Yesterday, The World Economic Forum released its 2022 Gender Gap Report. The report states that with a 0.81 gender gap score, Nicaragua ranks number one in Latin America … Read More
By Stansfield Smith During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. Soft coups, a new strategy, are a significant change from the brutal 1970s military hard coups in … Read More
The United States imposed a series of harsh sanctions on Russia following Moscow’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on February 21, and its subsequent military intervention in Ukraine on February 24.
By Roger Harris, Board member of the Task Force on the Americas This article was published in the Winter edition of TFA Reports accessible here: https://taskforceamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TFA-NLWINTER2022-FINAL.pdf On the flight down to Nicaragua as one of 225 international official election observers from 27 countries, the ex-pat Nicaraguan woman sitting next to me was hostile to the … Read More
The Year of Big Advances in Nicaragua By Nan McCurdy On December 18, Nan McCurdy gave the following presentation at a webinar on Nicaragua hosted by Task Force on the Americas, Ecumenical Peace Institute, and Mt Diablo Peace & Justice Center. The webinar “Countering the Lies about Nicaragua: Eyewitness reports vs Washington accusations” can be … Read More