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John Perry

Nicaragua based John Perry is with the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and writes for MR Online, the London Review of Books, FAIR, and Covert Action, among others.

    September 30, 2026
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Inside the United Nations Tunnel

    This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and

    Columns/Human Rights

    The Greater Isolation of Lesser Israel

    When Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, the rows of empty seats spoke before he did. Diplomats walked out, while others stayed away from the outset. News reports citing an Israeli tally put

    September 30, 2026

    What Sri Lanka’s Easter Judgment Finally Reveals

    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of

    Exclusive: Inside Sri Lanka’s Easter Plot — Read the Full TAB Judgment

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    The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s

    It’s not only about Venezuela: Trump intends a wider domino effect

    November 27, 2025
    Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

    It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a

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    Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina

    October 15, 2025
    Geopolitics/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls

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    Nicaragua: Demonized by the Headlines

    September 17, 2025
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their

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    A quartet of Nicaragua critics sings from Washington’s songbook

    August 11, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared

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    Trump Targets Latino Migrants – Ideology over Humanity

    July 29, 2025
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    The importance of Latinos living and working in the US is enormous: if they were in a separate country, it would be the world’s fifth largest economy, bigger than even India. President

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    Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South

    July 24, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now

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    Challenging the Media Myth of Latino Machismo: Recognizing Feminist Strides in Latin America

    July 12, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made

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    50,000 died in Nicaragua’s struggle against dictatorship: Sócrates was one of the last

    June 30, 2025
    Columns/Geopolitics/Human Rights

    Nicaraguans will fill the streets later this month to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. On July 19, 1979, the Somoza dictatorship finally fell, ending 18 years of guerilla fighting

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    Punishing Progress

    June 13, 2025
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    “We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.”

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    Trump’s NED: ‘Democracy’ as a Weapon in Latin America

    May 20, 2025
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as

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    Latin America Three Months into the Trumpocalypse

    April 20, 2025
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting

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