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“That’s unbelievable,” my father-in-law wrote me from Ireland after watching me give a statistic-heavy webinar on the advances for the poor in Nicaragua since 2007. “I know, right?” I replied. “No, I mean it’s actually unbelievable,” he wrote back. “For cynical people like me, our faith in humanity has been undermined. The story of a […]
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United States Once Again Attacking Government Of Nicaragua
September 27th, 2021 
Awake Goy Above photo: El 19 Digital. The Excuse Since the house arrest of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro’s daughter Cristiana Chamorro for money laundering and other crimes, the US and international assault against the Sandinista government has grown. This is the continuation of an ongoing attack against Sandinismo that began long before the US and […]
Nicaragua’s Rainforest And Indigenous Peoples
September 27th, 2021 Awake Goy A Story Of Falsehood, Lies And US-Based Political Campaigns. Masaya, Nicaragua – Indigenous peoples and the rainforests that many inhabit are under threat. Everyone knows it. In Latin America especially, international NGOs like Global Witness and Frontline Defenders tell a story which seems self-evidently true: outsiders are exploiting natural resources, governments are indifferent or actively […]
Statement Of The International Delegation To Nicaragua
September 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Statement of the International Delegation to Nicaragua, July 18-25 2021. An international delegation released this statement supporting the rights of the Nicaraguan people to live free of U.S. interference. We have come to Nicaragua this week to see for ourselves the lived reality of the Nicaraguan people. We are here from the United States, Brazil, […]
Nicaragua: The Right To Live In Peace
August 14th, 2021 Awake Goy “Sovereignty is not argued aboutIt is defended”– Cesar Augusto Sandino It is an irrefutable fact that the United States orchestrated, financed and unleashed the violent coup attempt in 2018 against the democratically elected FSLN government. Spokespeople of the U.S. establishment, from former president Trump, extreme right-wing senators and deputies, all the way down the food […]
How Did Nicaragua Reduce Hunger And Malnutrition?
August 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Despite crippling, unilateral sanctions and globally rising food prices, hunger levels in Nicaragua have been falling. How has this been achieved? Despite crippling, unilateral sanctions and globally rising food prices, hunger levels in Nicaragua have been falling. The Sandinista government has been able to ensure people’s food needs are met through its focus on […]
Nicaragua’s Sandinistas Battle ‘Diabolical’ US Empire And Poverty
July 27th, 2021 Awake Goy The Grayzone Reports From Nicaragua On The 42nd Anniversary Of The Sandinista Revolution. Nicaraguans Discuss Their Improved Quality Of Life, President Ortega Condemns The Dictatorial US “Empire That Wants To Dominate All Countries,” And Vice President Murillo Declares Poverty An Imperialist “Crime Against Humanity.” Managua, Nicaragua – 42 years after the victory of the Sandinista […]
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No Comments »Nicaragua: CIA Attempting A Coup Through US Agencies And Foundations
June 16th, 2021 Awake Goy By Nan McCurdy, Popular Resistance. June 16, 2021 | Educate! Above photo: Getty images. USAID Does not provide aid – it Carries out Coups. Since the Sandinistas won the 2006 election their anti-poverty policies have had enormous success. The country is 90% self-sufficient in food. 99% of the population have electricity in their homes that […]
The US Stake In Nicaragua And Honduras’s 2021 Elections
June 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Both Honduras and Nicaragua hold presidential elections in November 2021 and the US government has a strong interest in both, although for rather different reasons. Both have incumbent presidents who will either stand again or, in the case of Honduras, more likely be replaced as candidate by a successor seen as reliably committed to the […]
How USAID Created Nicaragua’s Anti-Sandinista Media Apparatus
June 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Now under money laundering investigation. With tens of millions of dollars over years of work, CIA front USAID helped create and train Nicaragua’s anti-Sandinista opposition. At the center of its operations is the elite Chamorro Foundation, which stands accused of money laundering. The US government has spent years cultivating a ring of right-wing media outlets […]
Nicaragua: Scary Covid Projections Are More Newsworthy Than Hopeful Results
April 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Guardian Nicaragua poster. One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the virus was even worse. There were some cases of obvious neglect—Brazil was […]
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March 16th, 2021 Awake Goy By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. March 15, 2021 | Newsletter For the next two weeks, I am in Nicaragua on the first delegation organized by the Sanctions Kill coalition and the Friends of the ATC (Asociacion de Trabajadores del Campo – Association of Rural Workers) to study the impact of sanctions imposed by the United […]
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November 6th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: From Twitter. How is it that there were only two lives lost during a level 4 Hurricane that affected Nicaragua beginning Nov. 2 on the Caribbean Coast? Nicaragua is constantly preparing and training people to save lives in disasters: thousands of people have participated in simulations for hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and more, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: hurricane, improving, lives, nicaragua, prioritizes, saving No Comments »Testimonies From The Gloria Quintanilla Women’s Cooperative Of Nicaragua
November 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: From July 11–21, 2019, the Friends of the ATC and the ATC hosted their “Solidarity with Nicaragua” delegation. Friends of the ATC. “The Land is Our Mother” When a group of campesinas in the community of Santa Julia, Nicaragua founded the Gloria Quintanilla Cooperative in 2008 with the Rural Workers’ Association (Asociación de […]
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October 16th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Rosa Poser, from Flickr.com. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly supports what it calls “a return to democracy in […]
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September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Pinterest. Note: AFGJ’s NicaNotes hosted a Webinar on Sept. 13 entitled The Smoking Gun: Recent Revelations about U.S. Destabilization Efforts in Nicaragua with Magda Lanuza, Coleen Littlejohn, Brian Willson and Nan McCurdy about current US intervention in Nicaragua. You can see the one-hour webinar here. This week is very important in Central America, especially in Nicaragua. […]
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September 8th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: A woman stands near a burning barricade holding Nicaraguan flag, April 2018. Canada is supporting US efforts to overthrow Nicaragua’s government. A recently leaked USAID document highlights “the breadth and complexity of the US government’s plan to interfere in Nicaragua’s internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021.” The stated aim is […]
Coronavirus Is Being Tackled By Nicaragua’s Community-Based Health System
August 9th, 2020 Awake Goy By Kevin Zeese and John Perry, Popular Resistance. August 8, 2020 | Educate! Above photo: Nicaraguan community health center from “Strengthening the Family and Community Health Care Model in Nicaragua,” the World Bank. Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is – like every other government – engaged in a struggle to limit the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on its […]
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August 6th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Above photo: Mass rally in support of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua from Eyes on Latin America. NOTE: We are posting several articles on this topic because it ought to be major news but the regime change-friendly US media aren’t talking about it or that a sitting senator criticized President Trump for failing to overthrow […]
Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua’s Elected Government
August 6th, 2020 Awake Goy A disturbing new document outlines plans for a US regime-change scheme against Nicaragua’s elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to bring about a “market economy” and a purge of Sandinistas. A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. The plot is administered by the United States […]
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