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Webinars and Videos

Our videos and webinars provide real life perspectives from the point of view of our Nicaraguan partner organisations and their members.

Solidarity Message From Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke (2025, 15 minutes)

This message from Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke was sent to the NSCAG solidarity event “Resistance, Resilience and Internationalism: Nicaragua’s Path out of Poverty” on 18 October. For decades, Nicaragua has resisted efforts to destroy the Sandinista Revolution — from a 42-year US-backed dictatorship and a US-financed war in the 1980s that claimed 30,000 lives, to neoliberal governments, a failed 2018 coup, ongoing propaganda, CAFTA threats, and illegal US sanctions. Despite these challenges, the Nicaraguan people continue building a nation that prioritises the many over the few, proving that a better world is possible.

A better world is possible: Nicaragua achieves poverty reduction despite threats from the US (2025, 1 hour 25 minutes)

Three Nicaragua-based speakers discuss how the country has achieved successful, integrated poverty reduction despite relentless US efforts to overthrow its government and impose a “US-style democracy.” They also consider what the future might hold under Trump.

Amid escalating US threats, international solidarity and unity remain vital to defending the sovereignty of progressive Latin American nations like Nicaragua.

Nicaragua-Venezuela: Successfully defeating the Monroe Doctrine (2024, 1 hour 35 minutes)

This webinar offered powerful insights into external aggression in Latin America and how Nicaragua and Venezuela have defended their sovereignty and advanced despite it.

Events in Venezuela after the 28 July elections closely mirror Nicaragua’s 2018 coup attempt. The same pattern has re-emerged: US-backed extremists attacking government supporters and destroying public institutions serving the poor. In Venezuela, so-called “peaceful protesters” have burned hospitals, buses, and subsidised pharmacies — echoing the violence Nicaragua faced in 2018.

Nicaragua, Climate Justice & Agroecology (2022, 7 minutes)

In November 2020, two catastrophic hurricanes devastated Central America, especially impacting Nicaragua with significant loss of lives and livelihoods, underscoring the severe effects of climate breakdown on vulnerable regions. La Via Campesina (LVC), a global movement of peasants and indigenous peoples, is leading the struggle for climate justice, emphasizing that the climate crisis is a systemic issue driven by unsustainable capitalism. Nicaraguan peasant farmers from the Rural Workers Association (ATC) highlight the hurricanes’ impact, while LVC’s vision for climate justice centers on agroecology and food sovereignty as essential components for sustainable and equitable solutions.

Solidarity message from Nicaraguan public sector union UNE (2021, 4 minutes)

This is a video shown at the Latin America Conference, Adelante, held on 4 December 2021

Recording of webinar What difference has 14 years of Sandinista government made? (2021, 1 hour 14 minutes)

The election victory of the Sandinista government in November 2006  brought to an end 16 years of neoliberal governments.

This webinar looked at the progress made over fourteen years in terms of achieving poverty reduction and ending hunger as outlined in the UN Millennium Development Goals and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Webinar recording Nicaragua: Fairtrade, Hurricanes and Climate Justice (2021, 1 hours 12 minutes)

The UCA SOPPEXCCA, based in northern Nicaragua, consists of 650 members producing Fairtrade coffee for export and organic produce for local consumption and sale. In November 2020, two unprecedented hurricanes hit Nicaragua, highlighting the climate crisis’s impact on small-scale producers like those from SOPPEXCCA, who suffer the most despite being the least responsible. A webinar discussed the climate injustice’s effects on these producers’ lives and livelihoods, illustrating how Fairtrade’s trade justice helps mitigate the impact and emphasizing the inseparability of trade justice, social justice, and climate justice. The event was co-hosted by Bristol Link with Nicaragua and the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign.

The US Regime Change Agenda: Hypocrisy and Double Standards (2021, 1 hour 30 minutes)

This webinar examines the methods employed by the US to undermine democracy and effect regime change in Nicaragua. It highlights the parallels with what occurred in the US in January 2021, when reactions to similar attempts to undermine US democracy in a violent way were markedly different. This webinar also examines the different strategies employed by the United States, including the imposition of illegal coercive measures (sanctions) to bring about regime change in Nicaragua and how the policies of the US administration towards progressive countries in Latin America differ widely from those adopted towards its client states in the region.

Video Nicaraguan women: transforming lives, protecting the land (2021, 8 minutes)

This video tells the story of the long struggle of the Gloria Quintanilla Women Co-operative. Supported by the Rural Workers Association (ATC), the Co-op has transformed the lives of the whole community through their commitment to food sovereignty, agroecology, gender equality and land rights.

As defenders of the rights of women and girls, the co-operative is building an understanding and legacy for the community that “men and women are born with equal rights and equal opportunities.”

As small scale farmers and guardians of the environment, agroecology is fundamental: “We use agroecology because in this way we take care of our farms, our health and (the wellbeing) of future generations.”

Webinar recording The Nicaraguan Revolution – Past, Present and Future, the threat of a good example’ (2020)

With the election of the FSLN to government in 2006, Nicaragua’s revolution entered it second phase, building on the the social, economic and political advances that have been the revolution’s hallmarks.

Speakers from Nicaragua discussed the periods from 1979 to the present  day, looking at how the revolution has underpinned Nicaragua’s democracy and transformed the lives of Nicaragua’s people.

Video Land, agroecology, & peasant identity: the experience of young people (2020,8 minutes)

Millions of people in peasant and  indigenous people’s globally  are fighting to transform their communities based on the values of respect for social, economic and environmental justice.

This video features Migdalia Cruz, a graduate of the Latin America Agroecology Institute (IALA) Ixim Ulew in Nicaragua, and Marlen Sanchez, director of IALA.

Migdalia describes the holistic way in which the course, based on popular education, integrates political, social and technical training.

She also talks about her pride in being a campesina and how she has applied what she learnt within her family and community. “The task we have is to recover the land and our identity as young campesinxs, to have our own land to grow food in a holistic, diversified way.

Video National Education Union (NEU) Teacher Exchange (2017)

In 2017, a group of teachers from the NEU (NUT Section) visited Nicaragua on an exchange visit with their Nicaraguan counterparts.

This uplifting and inspiring video is an excellent example of practical solidarity in action. A further exchange took place in 2022 and another is planned for 2024.