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January 21, 2022
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Ben Gutman From Washington D.C. In a bold and consequential decision with rippling geopolitical implications, Nicaragua recognized the “One-China Principle” and resumed diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the first time since the beginning of the neoliberal period in 1990.[1] This was announced ... <a title="Nicaragua: A Renewed Partnership with China Defangs US Regime Change Tactics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/nicaragua-a-renewed-partnership-with-china-defangs-us-regime-change-tactics/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: A Renewed Partnership with China Defangs US Regime Change Tactics">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Joe Emersberger Both Ecuador and Nicaragua elected a president and national assembly this year. Ecuador’s elections took place in February, with the second round of its presidential election in April. Nicaragua’s took place on November 7. Just by scanning headlines in Western media, as most readers do, ... <a title="Contrasting Crackdowns: media coverage of 2021 elections in Ecuador and Nicaragua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/08/contrasting-crackdowns-media-coverage-of-2021-elections-in-ecuador-and-nicaragua/" aria-label="Read more about Contrasting Crackdowns: media coverage of 2021 elections in Ecuador and Nicaragua">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio Zamorano Washington DC Brian Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, visited Honduras the week before the presidential elections. His stated purpose was to “encourage the peaceful, transparent conduct of free and fair national elections.” He did not meet with the de facto President, ... <a title="Hondurans Break the U.S.-imposed Narco Siege of their Government by Electing Xiomara Castro as New President" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/30/hondurans-break-the-u-s-imposed-narco-siege-of-their-government-by-electing-xiomara-castro-as-new-president/" aria-label="Read more about Hondurans Break the U.S.-imposed Narco Siege of their Government by Electing Xiomara Castro as New President">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro and Frederick MillsFrom Caracas, Venezuela On Sunday, November 21, Venezuela held mega-elections in which more than 70,000 candidates from across the political spectrum ran for 3,083 state, city and local offices, marking a resounding victory for this nation’s sovereignty and democratic institutions in the face ... <a title="Venezuela’s Mega-Elections: Despite U.S. Sanctions, COVID, and Economic Crisis, Chavismo Wins Majority of States" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/venezuelas-mega-elections-despite-u-s-sanctions-covid-and-economic-crisis-chavismo-wins-majority-of-states/" aria-label="Read more about Venezuela’s Mega-Elections: Despite U.S. Sanctions, COVID, and Economic Crisis, Chavismo Wins Majority of States">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John Perry From Masaya, Nicaragua Official results from Nicaragua’s elections on November 7 showed Daniel Ortega re-elected as president with 75% of the vote. On the same day, President Joe Biden dismissed the ballot as a “pantomime election”[1] and within 48 hours the Organization of American States ... <a title="If there was “fraud” in Nicaragua’s elections, where is the proof?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/17/if-there-was-fraud-in-nicaraguas-elections-where-is-the-proof/" aria-label="Read more about If there was “fraud” in Nicaragua’s elections, where is the proof?">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub Managua, Nicaragua Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council declared President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) winners in an election that drew 65% of the eligible 4.4 million voters. Although Washington and its allies in the region denounced ... <a title="Despite US led Dirty Campaign, Nicaraguans Came Out in Force in Support of the FSLN " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/despite-us-led-dirty-campaign-nicaraguans-came-out-in-force-in-support-of-the-fsln/" aria-label="Read more about Despite US led Dirty Campaign, Nicaraguans Came Out in Force in Support of the FSLN ">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John PerryFrom Masaya, Nicaragua A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega. This blatant censorship move was said to ... <a title="Facebook Does the U.S. government’s Censorship Work in Nicaraguan Elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/facebook-does-the-u-s-governments-censorship-work-in-nicaraguan-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook Does the U.S. government’s Censorship Work in Nicaraguan Elections">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny ShawFrom NY On October 25th, 1983, 7,300 U.S. troops, accompanied by U.S.-trained soldiers of CARICOM countries calling themselves “The Caribbean Peace Force,” invaded the tiny island of Grenada. This October marks the 38th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the land of Julien Fedon, Jacqueline Creft, ... <a title="Grenada: 38 Years after a Triple Assassination, the Short-Lived Revolution still Inspires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/grenada-38-years-after-a-triple-assassination-the-short-lived-revolution-still-inspires/" aria-label="Read more about Grenada: 38 Years after a Triple Assassination, the Short-Lived Revolution still Inspires">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Dan KovalikFrom Pittsburg, PA On October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab was in practical terms kidnapped for the second time, first by Cabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., in flagrant violation of international law. For nearly a year ... <a title="The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/19/the-u-s-flies-alex-saab-out-from-cabo-verde-without-court-order-or-extradition-treaty/" aria-label="Read more about The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Richard Kohn, Ph.D.From Columbia, MD Recently, there have been reports in the news media that Nicaragua is destroying its rain forests and allowing beef ranchers to convert them to pastures in the country’s vast nature reserves. A network of supposed human rights and environmental groups are calling ... <a title="Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/nicaragua-u-s-sanctions-will-disrupt-sustainable-beef-production-and-reforestation/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John Perry From Masaya, Nicaragua Both Honduras and Nicaragua hold presidential elections in November 2021 and the US government has a strong interest in both, although for rather different reasons. Both have incumbent presidents who will either stand again or, in the case of Honduras, more likely ... <a title="The US stake in Nicaragua and Honduras’s 2021 elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/the-us-stake-in-nicaragua-and-hondurass-2021-elections/" aria-label="Read more about The US stake in Nicaragua and Honduras’s 2021 elections">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio Zamorano From Washington DC What happened in Chile this past weekend seems to be one of those historic events that cannot but follow its inexorable course. It is like an enormous, powerful tsunami wave whose size cannot be appreciated on the high seas, until it comes ... <a title="Chile is Reborn by a (Political) Earthquake that Emerged from the Streets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/chile-is-reborn-by-a-political-earthquake-that-emerged-from-the-streets/" aria-label="Read more about Chile is Reborn by a (Political) Earthquake that Emerged from the Streets">Read more</a>
