Daily Archives: January 27, 2022

2022-01-27: News Headlines

Nan McCurdy (2022-01-27). Nicaragua Once Again Inaugurates the "People as President" dissidentvoice.org Family in Bismarck Martinez Housing neighborhood watch the inauguration and swear to fight with all their strength to eliminate hunger, poverty and backwardness. [Photo by Jairo Cajina] On January 10, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated President and Rosario Murillo was inaugurated as Vice President. The central event in the Plaza of the Revolution was accompanied by …

Editor2 (2022-01-26). The Economics of The Sandinista Revolution in 2022 (Interview). orinocotribune.com Nicaragua ended 2021 with extraordinary results in the economy, highly positive results in production and is leading economic growth in the region after three difficult years during which it faced a coup attempt, two devastating hurricanes, Covid-19 and permanent attempts by the United States and big capital to destroy the country's economy. | In Managua, we interviewed Minister of Finance, Ivan Acosta, on Nicaragua's model, regional economic integration and new prospects as Nicaragua and China seek cooperation after reestablishing relations in December. Kawsachun News' Camila Escalante sat down with Minister Aco…

teleSUR, JGN (2022-01-26). Países reconocen avances de Venezuela en materia de DD.HH. pese a sanciones. telesurtv.net Delegados de Nicaragua, Nigeria, Irán y Arabia Saudita, entre otros, aplaudieron los esfuerzos del Gobierno venezolano por mejorar el bienestar económico de su pueblo.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2022-01-26). Gobierno de Daniel Ortega goza del 70 % de aprobación popular. telesurtv.net Daniel Ortega fue reelecto en 2021 para su cuarto mandato consecutivo por el 75 por ciento de los votantes de Nicaragua.

Staff (2022-01-26). "Gangsters of Capitalism": Jonathan Katz on the Parallels Between Jan. 6 and 1934 Anti-FDR Coup Plot. democracynow.org We speak to award-winning journalist Jonathan Katz about his new book "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire." The book follows the life of the Marines officer Smedley Butler and the trail of U.S. imperialism from Cuba and the Philippines to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Panama. The book also describes an effort by banking and business leaders to topple Franklin D. Roosevelt's government in 1934 in order to establish a fascist dictatorship. The plot was exposed by Butler, who famously declared, "War is a racket." The far-right conspira…

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-26). Putin in 2022 and Yeltsin in 1999. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com For years Western governments, their loyal oppositions and their servile (and controlled) news media have portrayed the Russian government of President Vladimir Putin as irrationally hostile toward NATO, often contrasting his alleged behavior to that of his predecessor Boris Yeltsin. The above characterization of Putin is inaccurate. He didn't say much if anything about the …

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