John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart Cournoyer In a fit of petulant anger, the U.S. government has lashed out on January 25 against the outcome of Nicaragua’s recent presidential election. To understand the context of the U.S. threats, I talked to Felipe Stuart Cournoyer, a Nicaraguan citizen and member of Sandinista... » read this article

In Nicaragua the support of the country's youth for the Frente Sandinista has played a decisive role in the country's development under the government of President Daniel Ortega. In this video, young people at grass roots talk about why they identify with the Frente Sandinista. En Nicaragua el apoyo de... » read this article

On Sunday November 6th, over 3 million eligible voters will go to the polls to vote in Nicaragua's presidential and legislative elections. They will be voting on three ballots for the Presidency, for Deputies to the National Assembly and for Deputies to the Central American Parliament. Five electoral alliances are... » read this article

Nicaragua - A revolution towards prosperity and social justice Interview with Dr. Paul Oquist Kelly, Minister Private Secretary to the President for National Policy Tortilla con Sal, September 13th 2011 Tortilla con Sal: Nicaragua's 2007 development plan worked out by the government had various aims, principally promoting economic growth, promoting... » read this article

This video explores how ALBA has helped Nicaragua's Sandinista government balance the imperative of promoting trade and employment with the need to protect and help the most vulnerable sectors of the population. The solid economic and social coherence of the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of the Americas can be... » read this article

ALBA - the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of the Americas has strengthened the sovereignty of the countries of Central America and the Caribbean and permitted economic justice for their peoples by means of policies of redistribution of wealth and resources. For rejecting the domination of giant multinational corporations and... » read this article

Report by Tortilla con Sal. Controversy surrounds the candidacy of President Daniel Ortega in this year's Presidential elections. This detailed report analyses the legal arguments that underpin the issue. NICARAGUA: ALBA - soberania, justicia, transparencia (en español) Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal reports on Nicaragua's participation in ALBA with interviews... » read this article

North American and European media coverage of Nicaragua in recent years has followed the same template applied to other countries targeted by the US government and their NATO allies. The modus operandi is always the same : military encirclement, diplomatic isolation, media demonization, funding of local proxies and violent provocation.... » read this article

Editor's Note: We offer the following introduction, with a graphic, depicting political particpation of women in Latin American politics as context for Karla Jacob's excellent report on the Nicaraguan population's views on total abortion. - Les Blough in Venezuela By Karla Jacobs Tortilla con Sal Nicaragua Original publication on Tortilla con... » read this article

July 19th this year was the 31st anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. It also marked three and a half years of steady and important economic, social and cultural advances as well as improvements in civil and political rights under the FSLN government of President Daniel Ortega. (1) But... » read this article

Editor's Note: When we read the attack by The Economist on the government of Nicaragua and their democratically-elected president, Daniel Ortega, we called on toni solo*, a 20 year veteran resident journalist on Nicaraguan political affairs to respond and he kindly agreed. - Les Blough, Editor The Economist on Nicaragua... » read this article

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  On April 18th the Elders Council of La Mosquitia (considered the maximum authority of the indigenous Miskito people's traditional organizational structure) held an assembly in Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas) at which they declared the independence of the Northern and Southern Atlantic Regions (RAAN and RAAS) from Nicaragua. The new nation... » read this article

"We have a US President [Obama] who says we should forget the past, but who himself in trapped in the past, he is trapped in a 50 year long blockade on Cuba. ... What was made clear at the summit is that the US has not changed and that Latin... » read this article

Editor's Note: We missed this one! Karla Jacobs was ahead of the game when she wrote her analysis of the SICA meeting and Joe Biden's visit to Central American presidents prior to the all-important Summit of the Americas - about which so much has been published in the week past.... » read this article

April 17th 2009 On April 5th (Palm Sunday) Nicaragua's centrist corporate daily, El Nuevo Diario, published what has since become an infamous and highly controversial interview with Abelardo Mata, Bishop of Estelí and Vice President of the Nicaraguan Catholic Bishops Conference. The front-page headline read "Mata fears civil war." The... » read this article

The opposition forces in Nicaragua, which consist of the different right wing and center right political parties, the corporate media and a number of influential NGOs, claim that the FSLN, in cahoots with the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), perpetrated massive fraud in the recent municipal elections. "How else could the... » read this article

Editors' Note: Axis of Logic endorses and fully supports The Manifesto: In Defense of Nicaragua. Reader, please consider adding your support to the Sandanista government in opposition to U.S. and European interference in the domestic affairs of Nicaragua. Stand up for Nicaragua and all of Latin America as this fledgling... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic asks readers to consider adding your signatures to this worthy manifesto, "In Defence of Nicaragua". Thank you! - Axis of Logic Editors     Friends and comrades The Manifesto "IN DEFENCE OF NICARAGUA" is the initiative of a group of Nicaraguans and internationalists aiming to... » read this article

Two months have passed since Hurricane Felix smashed into the north Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, destroying more than 350 communities and entire forests - fifty days of torrential rains in the western, north-central regions and on the Pacific side added to the national disaster - and the damage continues. President... » read this article