2023-05-26: News Headlines

John Perry, Popular Resistance. (2023-05-26). Masaya In Flames — Five Years Afterwards. popularresistance.org During the attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018, Masaya was one of the cities most affected by the violence and by the widespread use of roadblocks to control the streets, many manned by armed youths. The violence began on April 18 and lasted until July 17, when police and Sandinista volunteers moved in to clear the roadblocks. Overall, in Masaya some 36 people died during the coup attempt, including three police officers (and two more were trapped and murdered after the coup attempt ended). Randall, the subject of this article, lives in Monimbó, the neighborhood or "barrio" where the violence in the city began.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-05-26). Policía de Nicaragua informa sobre detención de sacerdote. telesurtv.net La institución dio a conocer que investiga al fraile Jaime Iván Montesinos Sauceda por cometer actos que menoscaban la independencia, la soberanía y la autodeterminación de la nación.

teleSUR, MER (2023-05-25). Presidente Ortega: se está configurando una nueva realidad en el mundo. telesurtv.net El mandatario aseveró que Rusia y China son los grandes conductores para fortalecer los otros frentes que se han venido desarrollando.


The Lancet (2023-05-27). Editorial] Childhood as a commodity: ending child labour. thelancet.com Children continue to be exposed to physical harm and denied education while toiling for long hours in the world's wealthiest nations. Children as young as 12 and 13 years have been engaged in labour involving midnight shifts, dangerous machinery, and punishing physical demands across industries supplying some of the USA's largest corporations according to a harrowing New York Times investigation. Most had migrated, unaccompanied, from central America. Uncertain of their immigration status and some indebted to traffickers, many considered dangerous labour safer than deportation.


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2023-05-23: News Headlines

Janice Rothstein (2023-05-22). De cómo una marimba me dio una lección de patrimonio cultural. peoplesworld.org °La cultura de la gente importa! Y necesita la protección del pueblo. La primera vez que aprendí esto fue en la Nicaragua sandinista de la década de 1980, pero es universal, incluso aquí en los EE. UU. Fue en la década de 1980 cuando estaba tratando de traer una marimba de madera casera de Nicaragua …

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Mexico: Work Visa Program to Be Presented for Central Americans. telesurenglish.net On Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that a program will be presented by Mexico this week, aimed at offering temporary visas to Central Americans. These visas will permit them to work on public infrastructure projects within the country. | Related: | During his routine press briefing, López Obrador emphasized that the implementation of these projects necessitates a larger workforce, consi…

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2023-05-22: News Headlines

Staff (2023-05-22). The Inevitable De-dollarization of Global Economy, With Ben Norton (Lowkey's The Watchdog). orinocotribune.com The US dollar is in crisis. In just a few short months, it has gone from the unquestioned global reserve currency to one that scores of countries are dumping in favor of using their own or regional currencies for international transactions. | One individual who is not lamenting the dollar's sharp decline is Ben Norton, who joins the show today. Ben is an American journalist based in Nicaragua and the editor-in-chief of the independent news outlet Geopolitical Economy Report. | In the past year, dozens of countries have announced that they will no longer be using the US dollar for international transactions, pr…

Janice Rothstein (2023-05-22). De cómo una marimba me dio una lección de patrimonio cultural. peoplesworld.org °La cultura de la gente importa! Y necesita la protección del pueblo. La primera vez que aprendí esto fue en la Nicaragua sandinista de la década de 1980, pero es universal, incluso aquí en los EE. UU. Fue en la década de 1980 cuando estaba tratando de traer una marimba de madera casera de Nicaragua …

Janice Rothstein (2023-05-22). How a marimba taught me a lesson in cultural patrimony. peoplesworld.org People's culture matters! And needs the people's protection. The first time I learned this was in the 1980s Sandinista Nicaragua, but it's universal, including here in the U.S. It was in the 1980s when I was trying to bring a homemade wooden marimba from Nicaragua to the U.S. that I first learned of cultural hegemony, …


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2023-05-21: News Headlines

John Perry (2023-05-20). NicaNotes: How 'Peaceful Protests' in Nicaragua Became an Attempted Coup. orinocotribune.com By John Perry and Dan Kovalik — May 18, 2023 | Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media. | The

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-20). Communist parties discuss ideas at meeting in Geneva (+Photo). plenglish.com Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the communist parties of Nicaragua, Cuba, Türkiye, Uruguay, Italy, Portugal, Sri Lanka and South Korea participated today in this city in a meeting to discuss political work in those countries.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-20). Communist parties discuss ideas at meeting in Geneva. plenglish.com Geneva, Switzerland, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the communist parties of Nicaragua, Cuba, Türkiye, Uruguay, Italy, Portugal, Sri Lanka and South Korea participated today in this city in a meeting to discuss political work in those countries.


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