Webinar, 13th February - Time to end US sanctions!
NSCAG News | on: Tuesday, 26 January 2021
On 13 February at 2pm UK time, NSCAG will be co-hosting a webinar - 'Trump has gone: time to end sanctions on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela' - with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. In the last 4 years, the Trump administration intensified illegal U.S sanctions against read moreWebinar: Trump has gone - time to end US sanctions on Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela
NSCAG News | on: Tuesday, 26 January 2021
On 13 February at 2pm UK time, NSCAG will be co-hosting a webinar with Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. In the last four years, the Trump administration intensified illegal U.S sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua with the aim of forcing 'regime change' - deeply damaging read more
Nicaragua Update
NSCAG News | on: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. We are today celebrating the departure of Donald Trump. But what does a future Biden administration have in store for Nicaragua? Will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections and subvert the will of read more
Majority of Nicaraguans Reaffirm Support for the FSLN
NSCAG News | on: Wednesday, 13 January 2021
A wide-ranging poll carried out by independent polling firm M & R consultores in December 2020 indicates that the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) maintains a big advantage over a fragmented opposition that lacks support and credible leadership. Results from the survey, which looked at voting intentions in the read more
NSCAG webinar now on You Tube!
NSCAG News | on: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
A recording of the recent NSCAG webinar - 'The Nicaraguan Revolution - Past, Present and Future - the threat of a good example' is now available on You Tube at the link below:- https://youtu.be/f2P8BwLPTqw Copies of the presentations made by Nan McCurdy and John Perry can be found here read more
Webinar: The Nicaraguan Revolution: Past, Present and Future - the threat of a good example
NSCAG News | on: Tuesday, 27 October 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 will discuss the periods from 1979 to the present day, looking at how the revolution read more
Fighting blockades & COVID-19: Why US sanctions in Latin America must end
NSCAG News | on: Sunday, 4 October 2020
Our webinar hosted jointly with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign on 3rd October is now available to view here Guest speakers at the event were Counselor Julio Pujol, Deputy Head of Mission, Cuban Embassy Sofia Clark, Master of International Law, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann Centre for Development read more
Webinar: Fighting blockades & COVID-19: Why US sanctions in Latin America must end
NSCAG News | on: Thursday, 17 September 2020
In the depths of a global health crisis international co-operation can save lives. But while Cuba has sent medical brigades to help fight COVID-19 in 38 countries, the US government under Donald Trump has tightened sanctions against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, preventing access to vital PPE and ventilators. In the read more
Kevin Zeese passes away
NSCAG News | on: Monday, 7 September 2020
We are deeply saddened to learn that Kevin Zeese, U.S. lawyer, advocate, writer, activist-organizer and comrade, passed away on 6th September. Zeese, alongside his partner Margaret Flowers, was the Co-director of Popular Resistance, an online resource providing news and information, which brings together movements for peace and economic, racial and read more
What other countries could learn from Nicaragua’s response to COVID-19
NSCAG News | on: Monday, 24 August 2020
The following is an edited version to a longer article by Coleen Littlejohn that first appeared on the website of the Alliance for Global Justice on 20 August 2020. Coleen has lived and worked in Nicaragua since 1980. From 2011-2014 she also worked for the World Bank in Liberia during read more