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On 20 October 2024, the Government of Nicaragua issued a statement in solidarity with the people and government of Cuba in response to the total blackout the socialist island suffered due to the unexpected outage of the country’s electricity grid. The statement, signed by President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo, highlights the fact that […]

Since 2017 UK – Nicaragua exchanges of teachers have taken place through a continuing collaboration involving the National Education Union (NEU) and the Nicaraguan teachers union (ANDEN). See above a delegation of UK teachers who visited Nicaragua in August this year meeting ANDEN officials at the airport in Managua. This exchange continued with a visit […]

Part 4 of the diary of Maylin Heard, a member of a coffee brigade to Nicaragua 1986 organised by the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. 5 December 1986: Being filmed for a BBC documentary, a child is born in our ‘villa’; the red eyed tree frogs I’m writing this so that I can give it to […]

Part 3 of the diary of Maylin Heard, a member of a coffee brigade to Nicaragua 1986 organised by the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. 23 November 1986: a party with a communal feel with everyone from babies to older people; murals, murals everywhere We were invited to a party by Reinaldo, a shy local machinist […]

Part 2 of the diary of Maylin Heard, a member of a coffee brigade to Nicaragua 1986 organised by the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC) 22 November 1986: Herbie helps me navigate the slopes and teaches me Spanish, we witness the Sandinista health crusade in action; our brigade becomes national news To update you…I thought […]

Part 1 of the diary of Maylin Heard a member of a coffee brigade to Nicaragua 1986 organised by the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC). In the 1980s, as the US military, economic and political war on Nicaragua intensified, more and more men were being drafted into the military resulting in a shortage of agricultural […]

This NSCAG briefing illustrates the enduring solidarity between the two small nations covering almost 100 years. It begins with Colombian born Palestinian Coronel Antonio Dahud joining Sandino’s guerrilla army against US occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s, and his subsequent journey to Palestine to join the 1936 Palestinian revolt. It continues to this day […]

This NSCAG webinar with support from the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, provided a fascinating insight into external aggression in Latin America and the successful efforts of Nicaragua and Venezuela to defend their sovereignty and achieve progress. Events in Venezuela following the elections on 28 July bear a striking resemblance to events which took place during the […]

The following article is based on a presentation at the AGM of NSCAG and interviews with Dr Carlos Arguello, Nicaraguan representative to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 1984. Nicaragua uses accumulated experience of the ICJ to bring a case against Germany for ‘failing in its obligation to prevent the commission of genocide.’ In […]