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Nicaragua

September 17, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

Is Nicaragua Trump’s Next Target?

After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump –

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

China Controls 10% of Nicaragua Through Gold Mining Concessions

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 and Afro-descendant lands. According to reporting by El

July 17, 2026

“InSight Crime” Defends an Indicted Criminal: Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do

Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics

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

Amnesty International defends US regime-change NGOs: Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba

Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Human Rights

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

Is Nicaragua Trump’s Next Target?

September 17, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump –

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China Controls 10% of Nicaragua Through Gold Mining Concessions

July 17, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics

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

More

“InSight Crime” Defends an Indicted Criminal: Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do

June 6, 2026
Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics

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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Amnesty International defends US regime-change NGOs: Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba

April 1, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Human Rights

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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Nicaragua’s economy “weathers multiple shocks” including US attacks

February 5, 2026
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

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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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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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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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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Nicaragua’s President Ortega and Wife Accumulate Absolute Power

February 1, 2025
Geopolitics/World

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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Cuba and Nicaragua: Parallel Paths of Revolution

July 19, 2024
History

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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Nicaraguan Minister Praises Shanghai Free Trade Zone’s Global Trade Innovation

October 8, 2023
Interviews

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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