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Nicaragua: News & Updates

Nicaragua was ruled by the Somoza dictatorship, backed by the US, for 30 years. After the Sandinista Revolution took control in 1979, the US assembled former Somoza National Guardsmen into a counterrevolutionary force that, for the next decade,  terrorized the civilian population in an attempt to weaken popular support for the Sandinistas. The  “contra war”  left 30,000 people dead and forced more than 100,000 to seek refuge in the US.

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News Article
Meeting Basic Requirements that Benefit the Nicaraguan People
February 28, 2018
Nicaragua's achievements in education, healthcare, energy, and lowering poverty can be seen in contrast to the ‘northern triangle’ countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Nicaragua produces only a very small proportion of the thousands of undocumented migrants who travel north to Mexico and the US.
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News Article
NICA Act: What is it and why should it be opposed?
February 28, 2018
The US has been party to the favorable opinions given by all the main international bodies on the way Nicaragua uses the finance that is provided, with no suggestions of money being diverted for other uses or used corruptly. Its action [passage of the NICA Act] will therefore be seen as hypocritical, and contrary to the evidence gathered by bodies of which it is an influential member.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Nicaragua, 10/22/2017
October 22, 2017
assassination of community judge and defender of indigenous territories Celedonia Zalazar Point and her husband, Tito José González Bendles, at their home in the Tungla community in the Prinzu Awala territory of Prinzapolka municipality of the Autonomous Region of the Northern Atlantic (RAAN) on the Caribbean Coast
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News Article
Criminalizing Environmental Activism, by Moira Birss
September 14, 2017
As threats to the environment increase across Latin America, new laws and police practices take aim against the front line activists defending their land and resources
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Event
Summer Solidarity Coffeehouse
August 11, 2017
Enjoy Live Music. Poetry. Refreshments (Fair Trade of course). Hear updates from IRTF staff who have recently traveled to Colombia, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Nicaragua, 05/01/2017
May 1, 2017
attempted murder of Maynor López, son of human rights defender Francisca Ramírez, who is Coordinator of the Council for the Defense of the Land, the Lake and Sovereignty, active in organizing resistance to construction of the Nicaraguan Grand Inter-oceanic Canal
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Event
Honduras and Nicaragua Delegation Report Back
March 28, 2017
Come and join us for the Honduras and Nicaragua Delegation Report back.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Nicaragua, 3/23/2017
March 23, 2017
Death threats to indigenous rights defender Lottie Cunningham Wren, lawyer and founder of the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN).
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Event
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
January 14, 2017
Please join IRTF on Saturday, January 14 for a spaghetti dinner to support volunteer associate Yeamelake Aklilu as she travels to Honduras and Nicaragua to study Social Movements. The fundraiser is a free will offering.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Nicaragua, 1/1/2017
January 1, 2017
Police assaults with rubber bullets and tear gas against environmental defenders resisting construction of the Grand Inter-Oceanic Canal during a demonstration in Nueva Guinea, in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RAAS).
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