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List of interventions by the United States government in Nicaragua's democratic process! The repeated interventionist statements by successive US ambassadors since 2004 have crossed the line between diplomacy and intervention in Nicaragua's internal affairs. When a US ambassador threatens non-cooperation with a freely elected government that does not have what the US government considers sensible economic policies or does not wish to surrender control of its military to the US’s interpretation of “security,” Nicaraguans think not of aid cut offs, but of US-sponsored armed conflict because that was their recent experience during the 1980s when the United States government organized, funded, armed and trained a counter-revolutionary army to attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. That revolutionary government put in place a democratic constitution and, when voted out of office in the 1990 elections, turned power over to the winning coalition, thus marking the first peaceful turn-over of power to an opposing political party in Nicaragua's history. Click here for more information. Read letter from FSLN asking Nicanet to work to stop U.S. intervention in elections! The Nicaragua Network has been working to expose and stop intervention in the internal affairs of Nicaragua by the U.S. government for over a quarter of a century, most recently in connection with trips by U.S. officials to push Nicaragua to approve CAFTA and to unite the political right in the country in order to prevent an FSLN victory in the presidential elections of November 2006. The Nicaragua Network does not support any candidates in those elections. Our position is that the people of Nicaragua have the sovereign right to choose their leaders without interference from any foreign power. In light of this, we have received the following letter from Daniel Ortega, General Secretary of the FSLN: Click here for more information. Nicaragua Monitor on-line issue from August-September 2005. Click here to read.Click here to access our entire Nicaragua Monitor newsletter - the latest news and commentary from Nicaragua and solidarity groups in the US.
Hotlines!Nov 08, 2006
Campaigns & Action AlertsTell the IMF to drop harmful economic conditions! Representatives of the Nicaraguan civil society organization umbrella group Civil Coordinator and Oxfam Spain have announced a six month campaign against International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions in Nicaragua. Civil society representatives also travelled to Washington to lobby at the IMF’s spring meeting. They took with them a letter to the director of the IMF, Rodrigo de Rato, asking him to make the institution’s policies in Nicaragua more flexible so that the country has a chance of achieving the United Nations Millennium Goals of poverty reduction. Adolfo Acedevo, member of the Civil Coordinator’s economic committee said that the IMF conditions imposed on the Nicaraguan government have “grave” affects on the population, 80% of whom live on less than US$2 a day and cannot afford to pay for their children’s education or proper healthcare for their family. Click here
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| Campaign to Close Down the National Endowment
for Democracy (NED)!
The Nicaragua Network, as a member of the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC), has been working actively against the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a multi-faceted U.S. government-funded organization which promotes lack of democracy around the globe. LASC, together with progressive labor activists, conducted a major education effort to convince the AFL-CIO convention, held in Chicago July 25-28, to stop taking NED and Bush administration money for the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. Read more We urge you to write letters to the editors of your local newspapers whenever an article appears about the National Endowment for Democracy. You can expose the anti-democratic activities of this multi-faceted U.S. government-funded organization. Use some of the material in the accompanying articles below. Send us copies of your letters (to nicanet@afgj.org) and let us know if they are printed by your local paper. LASC Calls for an End to the NED! Kaufman Blasts NED at CounterInaugural DR-CAFTA Approved in US:How Could It Happen? And What Can We Do Now? By Kathy Hoyt, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network [8/29/05] Maybe I should stop waking up to the clock radio news and try music instead. The blow at 6:00am on Thursday July 28, 2005 , could only be compared to that morning in February 1990 when I was awakened by news of the Sandinista electoral loss. The House of Representatives had passed CAFTA in the middle of the night! I screamed, "That's impossible! The President didn't have the votes!" What can we tell our friends in Central America now? We worked hard; we did all we could, but we lost. Now the subsidized agribusiness corn and rice will come flowing in and price Central American farmers out of the market and off of their land! It was too much to bear. Read more The Fight Against Nemagon Continues in Managua!Support Banana Workers
Affected by Nemagon Stop Water Privatization in Nicaragua! Update on Water Privatization in Nicaragua Support for Justice in the Maria Luisa Acosta CaseSupreme Court to Consider Opening Case against Tsokos! [9/21/05] By Kathy Hoyt On May 26th, 2005, Nicaragua's
Supreme Court agreed to consider the request by indigenous rights lawyer
Maria Luisa Acosta that a criminal case be opened against land grabber
Peter Tsokos and his lawyer Peter Martinez. Acosta believes the two
men were the intellectual authors of the murder of her husband, Francisco
Garcia, Bluefields businessman and science professor. Two men, Ivan
Argüello and Wilberto Ochoa, have already been convicted in a Bluefields
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Search Our Website:About the Nicaragua Network: Over 26 Years of Solidarity with the People of NicaraguaThe Nicaragua Network has been organizing in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua for over 26 years. In February of 1979, the Network was founded to support the popular struggle to overthrow the 45 year US-supported Somoza family dictatorship, and after the July 19 victory, to support the efforts of the Sandinista Revolution to provide a better life for the nation's people. Thus, for over a quarter of a century, the Network has been a leading organization in the United States committed to social and economic justice for Nicaragua, Latin America and the world, based on respect for sovereignty and self-determination. The Network advocates for sound U.S. foreign policies that respect human rights and international law. The Nicaragua Network provides information and organizing tools to a network of 200 solidarity, sister city, and peace and justice committees across the U.S. Publications include the Nicaragua Network Hotline, the Nicaragua News Service, the Nicaragua Monitor, and occasional monographs. The Network organizes speaking tours of Nicaraguans in the U.S. and study tours and brigades to Nicaragua. Some important current campaigns are: confronting water privatization, debt cancellation for Nicaragua and other poor countries, and radical change of IMF/World Bank measures. We also have campaigns in support of unemployed coffee workers, banana workers, labor organizing in the Free Trade Zones, indigenous rights, and the efforts of Nicaraguan environmental organizations. Nicanet - The Nicaragua Network
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