2021-07-04: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-07-04). Hunger and Food Production in Nicaragua: How do we Feed the People? orinocotribune.com By Rohan Rice — Jun 27, 2021 | As hunger and food insecurity increases globally, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has been working for the last decade to strengthen local food production and ensure food sovereignty in the face of sanctions | Food security should be top of every government's agenda. However, since 2014 world hunger has been

Editor2 (2021-07-04). Who's Afraid of Sandinista Nicaragua? (Interview). orinocotribune.com Interview with Fabrizio Casari | Despite continuing to be the object of strong US interference and coup attempts, Nicaragua is resisting with all the contradictions the situation implies, continuing to scare the oligarchy out of its wits. We talked about this and much more with journalist Fabrizio Casari, director of the on-line magazine Altrenotizie.org, someone very knowledgeable about Nicaragua. | 1) Elections will be held in Nicaragua in November 2021. Who are the candidates and parties that will run? | There are 11 national parties and 6 regional parties (belonging to the Atlantic and Caribbean coast) that w…

Margaret Randall (2021-07-04). Nicaragua: Past Dreams, Today's Nightmare. zcomm.org The grandchildren of the Sandinista generation have no firsthand memories of the revolution but know the betrayal in its aftermath…

Various Contributors (2021-07-04). Open Letter to the Nicaraguan government from U.S. solidarity workers (1979-1990). zcomm.org We believed then, and we continue to believe now, in the Nicaraguan people's right to self-determination…

Editor2 (2021-07-03). Nicaragua: The New Contras. orinocotribune.com By Miguel Necoechea — Jun 27, 2021 | Luis Carrión Cruz, former commander of the Sandinista Revolution and member of Unamos, the new organization that emerged from the dissolution of the Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, a small dissident group led by the Nicaraguan petty bourgeoisie that won only 6. 4% of the votes in the 2006 presidential elections (since than it has no longer participated), is wrong when he claims that the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, intends to negotiate with US President Joe Biden for the liberation of the "13 hostages abducted by the regime." Carrión made this comment…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-03). President Daniel Ortega: 'ALBA-TCP is the Core of the Defense of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples'. libya360.wordpress.com "Unity will bury the Organization of American States (OAS). Only then we'll be able to say: Now we are free and independent!" said Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in his virtual statement at the 19th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) From Managua, and on the commemoration of…

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