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
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
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 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
By Angel Guerra Cabrera, journalist and member of the Secretariat of In Defense of Humanity The United States imperialist offensive against the people in Latin America and the Caribbean is beginning a new phase, showing clear fascist tendencies in some countries. Though this is not the only symptom, a clear example of it is … Read More