NicaNotes: Nicaragua’s model healthcare system: high-quality health care for all

NicaNotes October 15, 2026 Nicaragua’s model healthcare system: high-quality health care for all By the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee Action Group of the United Kingdom The Sandinistas led by Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007 ushering in a government committed to addressing the country’s biggest enemy: poverty. Their first act was to restore the rights…

NicaNotes: PETITION: We Demand an End to U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua!

NicaNotes October 8, 2026 PETITION: We Demand an End to U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua! Organizations and individuals: Please sign on to this petition demanding an end to U.S. intervention in Nicaragua sponsored by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. (The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition is an international coalition of organizations and individuals in solidarity with Nicaragua, supporting its…

NicaNotes: Rubio wants to defeat socialism in Nicaragua, not restore “democracy”

NicaNotes October 1, 2026 Rubio wants to defeat socialism in Nicaragua, not restore “democracy” By John Perry (Writer John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua, and publishes in the London Review of Books, FAIR, CovertAction and elsewhere. This article was first published in Countercurrents on September 17, 2026.) After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn…

NicaNotes: “Guaranteeing Peace & Security”: Nicaragua’s Tourism Sector Backs Proposed Reforms

NicaNotes September 24, 2026 “Guaranteeing Peace & Security”: Nicaragua’s Tourism Sector Backs Proposed Reforms By Becca Renk Foster [Becca Renk Foster is originally from Idaho, USA. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua. She coordinates the work of Casa Benjamin Linder in Managua and is part of the…

NicaNotes: Ortega, Elections, and the Context Western Media Won’t Print

NicaNotes September 17, 2026 Ortega, Elections, and the Context Western Media Won’t Print By Richard Balzano [Richard M. Balzano is an historian and political analyst peddling truths at several institutions of higher learning, quietly devoted to the art of sedition and comfortably resigned to the peripheral left. This article was first published in the New…

NicaNotes: Chicopipe, Nicaragua, August 11, 1985: Lest We Forget What Our Wars Really Mean

NicaNotes September 10, 2026 By James Phillips (James Phillips is a cultural anthropologist. He and his wife Lucy Edwards were Witness for Peace team members in Nicaragua in 1985-87. He has returned to Nicaragua many times and has written about various aspects of Nicaragua and its relationship to the U.S.) My wife Lucy and I…

NicaNotes: Marking the 46th Anniversary of the End of the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign

NicaNotes August 27, 2026 Marking the 46th Anniversary of the End of the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign By the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign of the United Kingdo When the Sandinistas came to power in 1979 their key priority was building “a new model of society based on equality, wellbeing, solidarity and social justice.” Nicaragua’s 1980 literacy Campaign…

SUNDAY: Earthquakes, Elections, and Empire – Aug. 23 forum Inbox

Click here to register for the webinar Earthquakes, Elections, and Empire, featuring David Escobar (with the Centro Pazífico), Raquel Mogollón (with AFGJ’s Colombia Watch program), and Tanya Nuñez (with People’s Forum) Please forgive this last minute posting but we wanted to give you an opportunity to attend this exciting webinar no matter where you are.…

NicaNotes: Despite U.S. Hybrid Warfare and Sanctions, Nicaragua’s Socialist Government is Building Infrastructure and Providing Services at Impressive Rate

NicaNotes August 20, 2026 Despite U.S. Hybrid Warfare and Sanctions, Nicaragua’s Socialist Government is Building Infrastructure and Providing Services at Impressive Rate PART TWO By Ben Grosscup [Ben Grosscup is a traveling folksinger who uses songs for political education in the anti-imperialist movement. This article was first published in Covert Action Magazine on July 8,…

New State Department Video Celebrates Monroe Doctrine! Support HRes. 1056 to Annul the Doctrine!

On August 11, 2026, last Tuesday, the US State Department released a video, narrated by US Ambassador to Panama Kevin Merino Cabrera, reviewing the history of the famous 1823 statement by President James Monroe known as the Monroe Doctrine. The video glorifies the Doctrine, not the early Monroe Doctrine, which merely declared the Western Hemisphere…

Earthquake in Colombia-Centro Pazífico and other AFGJ partners directly impacted by August 10, 2026 earthquake in Colombia

All photos in this alert by David Escobar The epicenter of Monday’s August 10, 2026 earthquake in Colombia was along the border of the Departments of Chocó and Valle de Cauca, a remote area near San José del Palmar, which has around 5,000 people. The urban centers most affected are Buenaventura and Cali (headquarters for…