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This collection presents speeches, writings, and interviews by leaders of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, focusing on the opening years. It includes historic documents of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) and is described as the best selection in English of these materials.
This biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), traces his life from 1936 to 1976 and his posthumous role in the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution. It argues that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was the crucial turning point in Fonseca's political evolution, leading directly to the FSLN's formation.
Psalms is a 1981 collection of Nicaraguan poetry, specifically paraphrases of the biblical Psalms, published in London by Sheed and Ward. The book presents 20th-century Nicaraguan poetic renditions of the Psalms, translated into English by a team including Thomas Blackburn, John Heath-Stubbs, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Elizabeth Jennings, Peter Levi, and Anthony Rudolf.
A personal and political reflection on struggle and hope, addressing Carlos directly about the approaching dawn of liberation and the ongoing fight against imperialism.
Nicaragua's healthcare system has seen significant improvements under the Sandinista government, including expanded access and better health outcomes, despite ongoing US interference and economic challenges.
Scientific paper about liberation theology and its centrality to Sandinismo, written by a Westerner and published by a US institution in 2020, which means it must be read with a critical eye. Almost all academic material about Nicaragua from Western universities have to have a disclaimer on them that denounces the modern Sandinista government.
In this investigation, The Grayzone editors Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton expose how US government-funded media outlets and far-right groups fueled a violent 2018 coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. After the Sandinistas returned to power in 2006, Washington poured millions through USAID and the Chamorro Foundation into opposition media like 100% Noticias.
A first-person account of the 44th anniversary celebration of the Nicaraguan Revolution in Managua on July 19, 2023, contrasts the open, popular event with US plans for new sanctions. The article argues that Nicaragua is not a dictatorship but a democracy under US attack, citing Ortega's 76% electoral victory and the lack of a police state, while criticizing US democracy as influenced by wealth.
Former Sandinista revolutionary Dora María Téllez and her MRS party became US embassy informants supporting right-wing coups against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.
Nicaragua's Ortega bars US-backed opposition from elections and restricts media, framing it as sovereignty defense against Washington's long history of intervention, which Western media misreports as authoritarianism.
A news article reports that Nicaragua is consolidating two railway megaprojects through a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese state company, CCECC. Vice President Rosario Murillo confirmed that a high Nicaraguan delegation is in China to finalize at least eight agreements for mega-projects, including signing a memorandum for the studies, design.
Nicaragua champions Palestine at the ICJ, leveraging its historic 1986 victory over the US to build a landmark genocide case against Germany.
Nicaragua and China will build a mega international airport at Punta Huete, making Nicaragua the first Latin American nation to consolidate such a megaproject with China. The contract, signed by General Oscar Mojica and CAMC's Wang Bo, is one of eight agreements and the only one approved for the region, part of the Belt and Road Initiative's tenth anniversary.
A report-back from a delegation of 22 North Americans who traveled to Nicaragua in January 2023 to investigate the conditions and lives of Nicaraguan women. It argues that the Sandinista government's community-based programs have empowered women, citing gender parity rankings, reduced mortality, land titles, and infrastructure investments, and urges the U.S. to lift sanctions.
In this first-person political essay, a Nicaraguan author who grew up anti-Sandinista but now supports the revolution argues that the 2018 protests were a US-backed coup attempt, not a genuine democratic movement. Drawing on Mao's theory of the principal contradiction, he frames the Sandinista Revolution as a legitimate project of national sovereignty and social progress.
Nicaragua's National Assembly president explains a constitutional reform to bar coup plotters and foreign-backed figures from elections, ensuring sovereign, democratic processes free from interference.
Nicaragua defends its sovereignty and electoral integrity against US-led media manipulation and psychological warfare, contrasting its mixed economy and social achievements with Western elite-controlled democracies.
Nicaragua ranks among the top 25 countries worldwide with roughly 70-80% of its power now generated from renewable sources. Long reliant on imported fossil fuels, the country has aggressively shifted toward renewables over the past two decades. Wind projects like Amayo harness trade winds, geothermal fields such as Momotombo provide baseload power.
MK reports that Nicaragua and China inaugurated construction on the Enesolar-3 solar plant in Nindirí, Masaya, funded by an $83 million Chinese investment. The 70-megawatt facility, led by CCCC, will generate 140,000 MWh annually, covering 40% of ENACAL's electricity consumption and benefiting nearly 4 million people.
