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July 8, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry, Masaya, Nicaragua On the fifth anniversary of the 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua, conflicting accounts of the violence and killings still persist. The mainstream media has characterized the opposition protests as generally peaceful and cases of opposition violence as counter violence against brutal repression of dissent ... <a title="Nicaragua: On the Fifth Anniversary of a Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/nicaragua-on-the-fifth-anniversary-of-a-coup-attempt-conflicting-accounts-persist/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: On the Fifth Anniversary of a Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2022
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John PerryMasaya, Nicaragua July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. We’ll hear ... <a title="Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/20/nicaragua-celebrates-43-years-of-revolution-a-clash-between-reality-and-media-misrepresentation/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2022
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John Perry Managua, Nicaragua Two years ago, COHA reported on the manufactured “refugee” crisis around Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica.[1] Now the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is saying that “102,000 people fled Nicaragua and sought asylum in Costa Rica” in 2021. As this article shows, this ... <a title="The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/30/the-un-refugee-agency-is-exaggerating-the-number-of-nicaraguan-refugees/" aria-label="Read more about The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees">Read more</a>
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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 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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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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April 15, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro New York “There will be some who will remember Ramsey Clark as an outsider. There are many more who remember him as a friend of justice, the oppressed, the exploited, and the rule of law. Perhaps he himself would like to be remembered merely as ... <a title="Ramsey Clark: An Essential Voice of Dissidence from the Center of U.S. Power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/15/ramsey-clark-an-essential-voice-of-dissidence-from-the-center-of-u-s-power/" aria-label="Read more about Ramsey Clark: An Essential Voice of Dissidence from the Center of U.S. Power">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry From Masaya US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly ... <a title="Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/nicaragua-attacked-for-following-the-same-us-policies-against-foreign-meddling/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling">Read more</a>
