Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition Newsletter , May 9th 2023
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You are invited to the 44th anniversary of the revolution!
For this July 19th celebration you would pay your own airfare and the government would cover your hotel, food, and some transportation to events on July 18 and 19 (and possibly on July 17 and 20). You would arrive in Managua on July 16 or 17 and they would pick you up and take you to a hotel (likely the one across the street from the airport – Las Mercedes, but it could be another). You would leave on the 20th or 21st. If you arrive before the 16th or stay after the 21st, all additional planning and costs are your responsibility.
And for anyone who wants to spend a modest amount of additional money and add on about five days, please see the opportunity from Casa Ben Linder below - this program would be well worth it.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please email Nan@NicaSolidarity.net with your passport name, your travel plans, and your phone number (cell and/or Whatsapp). She will respond with additional information.
Delegation Opt-In: Pre-Revolution Day Anniversary
Wednesday 12 July:
Arrival in Managua (Someone from the Casa Ben Linder team will pick you up)
Settle into Casa Ben Linder
Dinner, Casa Ben Linder
Thursday 13 July:
AM Meet with Ministry of Finance for overview of Nicaragua
PM Tour of Managua, with excellent recounting of recent history by Becca Renk at points of interest
Dinner with UNE (public sector workers’ union), Casa Ben Linder
Friday 14 July:
AM Visit Hospital Velez Paiz (one of the amazing new or completely rebuilt hospitals)
PM Lunch with FETSALUD health care union workers in Ciudad Sandino
Visit Nueva Vida Clinic, accompany community health promoters on home visits
Saturday 15 July:
AM Visit aquaponics projects, electricity and water projects in rural areas
PM Visit daycare, street paving and technical program projects, Ciudad Sandino
Revolutionary music concert, Casa Ben Linder
Sunday 16 July:
AM Worship with Christian Base Community, San Pablo Apostle
Lunch & swim, Laguna de Apoyo
PM Masaya artisan market Masaya volcano tour with union workers
Dinner at Vista de los Angeles (very near volcano)
Monday 17 July:
AM Visit Bismarck Martinez housing projects, Managua
PM Visit with self-employed workers’ union
Transport to hotel to begin official delegation activities
All translation, meals, lodging, and transport included (airport pickup included).
Cost: $420 per person. Team leader will be Becca Renk
Email: casabenjaminlinder@jhc-cdca.org
Nicaragua Webinars
Sunday, May 28: “The View from the Ground: What We Experienced in Nicaragua in 2018” with Becca Renk, Nils McCune, Coleen Littlejohn, and John Perry who all lived through the 2018 coup attempt. They will describe their experiences and how that has affected their lives.
REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/NicaMay28
Or scan the QR code to register:
Sunday, June 25: “ALBA-TCP: First Fair Trade Agreement in the World and how the US tried to Destroy it.” It will feature speakers from several countries in the agreement. Please mark your calendar!
Both webinars are on Sundays at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time (noon Pacific, 1pm Nicaragua, 2pm Central, and 8 pm in the UK).
Upcoming Delegations to Nicaragua
June 19-26: Voltage and Volcanoes Brigade, Casa Ben Linder
Visit a geothermal plant, solar installation, biogas, and electrical grid and recharging station projects. Peer into the second-most dangerous volcano in the world. Zip line among the trees of a dormant giant volcano.
June 17-27 Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast Delegation with Friends of the
ATC will visit afro-descendant and indigenous communities that are important groups in the Caribbean Coast autonomy process and Nicaraguan culture, and witness examples of concrete gains in quality of life in education, healthcare and women’s rights.
Mini-Internship with Friends of the ATC, July 3 – July 29 “Agroecology &
Revolution” . Share organizing, farming and training experiences led by the
ATC and CLOC-Vía Campesina. Share about the IALA methodologies as a strategy for agroecological training, including participating in farm work at the IALA campus. Promote the gains of the Sandinista Popular Revolution in its second phase including celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. Strengthen the Friends of ATC solidarity network through the training of young internationalists.
Articles Written during 2018 US-Directed Coup Attempt
We are now in the midst of the 5-year anniversary of the attempted coup in Nicaragua. Below is a list of some excellent articles written at that time.
Nicaragua: Terrorism as an Art of Demonstrating, July 1, Alex Anfruns:
https://www.investigaction.net/en/nicaragua-terrorism-as-an-art-of-demonstrating/
Correcting the Record: What is Really Happening in Nicaragua, Nils McCune and Kevin Zeese, July 13, 2018:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/13/correcting-the-record-what-is-really-happening-in-nicaragua/
One of the first articles that wrote about US funding of the opposition NGO’s in Nicaragua, May 11, 2018:
https://quixote.org/manufacturing-dissent-the-n-e-d-opposition-media-and-the-political-crisis-in-nicaragua/
Monopolizing death: Or how to frame a government by inflating a list of the dead, Enrique Hendrix 7/8/18:
http://tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/3546
With cynical theater Nicaragua's opposition erase their crimes to facilitate US intervention, July 15, 2018
https://tortillaconsal.com/tortilla/node/3543
June 6, 2018 Interview with John Perry: https://quixote.org/update-on-nicaragua-interview-about-situation-in-masaya/
June 10, 2018 Barbara Moore describes her experience:
https://popularresistance.org/letter-from-nicaragua/
June 17, 2018 Stephen Sefton for Telesur:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Nicaraguas-Crisis---the-Latest-Stage-in-a-Permanent-War-20180617-0021.html
NCSAG, June 24:
https://www.nscag.org/news/article/246/nicaraguan-government-rejects-biased-iahcr-report
How Nicaragua defeated a right-wing US-backed coup: A report from Managua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCxMOSulqI&ab_channel=ModerateRebels
Report by Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune about the failed coup attempt. 7/11/18:
http://clearingthefogradio.org/whats-really-happening-in-nicaragua/