Webinar: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty in Nicaragua

You are invited to a Webinar: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty in Nicaragua This will be a unique opportunity to hear from people from Nicaragua and others who participated in the latest delegation to Nicaragua on February Online webinar: Friday April 3, 3:00 PM Pacific Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MknBq5cMTwGAilyuSYdk-g After registering, … Read More

Nicaragua: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty

By Carissa Brands on March 20, 2020 In February, Friends of the Association of Peasant Workers (ATC) and the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) organized an agroecology and Sandinismo solidarity delegation to Nicaragua. Led by Friends of the ATC’s Coordinator and co-International Relations Secretariat, Erika Takeo, the delegation witnessed the current conditions in Nicaragua nearly … Read More

NICARAGUA: Access to Higher Education Reveals the Lies of the Coup Mongers

By Jorge Capelán, journalist A further piece of information contradicts the big lie of the promoters of the defeated “soft coup” of 2018 presented inside and outside Nicaragua as a “student insurrection” against the Sandinista government. On Monday, Vice President Rosario Murillo announced that the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) registered the largest pre-registration … Read More

NICARAGUA: Poll Has Sent the Coup to the Dustbin of History

By Chuck Kaufman, co-coordinator of Alliance for Global Justice  The latest poll by independent M&R Consultants covering the last quarter of 2019 shows that less than two years after the failed coup attempt of April-July, 2018, the Sandinista government, led by President Daniel Ortega is more popular than ever and all but a tiny minority … Read More

HAITI: Ten Years after the Earthquake

Haiti Action Committee Statement     January 12 marked ten years since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people, and left an estimated 1.3 million more homeless. Much of the greater Port-au-Prince region lay in ruins, including the presidential palace, 17 of 19 ministries, and many schools and hospitals. Entire neighborhoods were leveled, … Read More

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