The Nicaraguan government has granted mining concessions covering more than 1.2 million hectares—roughly 10 percent of the country’s territory—to Chinese-owned companies, intensifying concerns over the expansion of gold extraction into protected Indigenous
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a
The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key
The Nicaraguan government has granted mining concessions covering more than 1.2 million hectares—roughly 10 percent of the country’s territory—to Chinese-owned companies, intensifying concerns over the expansion of gold extraction into protected Indigenous
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InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on
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Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up
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The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in the country’s growing prosperity – export
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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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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
More 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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Nicaragua’s National Assembly, under the control of President Daniel Ortega’s ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), ratified a controversial constitutional amendment on Thursday that significantly strengthens the president’s grip on power. The
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by Eduardo Martínez Borbonet There are no identical political processes, much less Revolutions, which are conditioned by history and the context in which they develop. However, in Our America there are no
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by Jose Gabriel Martinez The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) is a great institutional innovation that has played an important role in global trade and development over the last decade,
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