Oscar René Vargas is Nicaragua’s Latest Prisoner of Conscience
The internationally-renowned intellectual was arrested in late November, joining an ever-growing list of political prisoners detained by the Ortega regime ...
Nicaragua: Chronicle of an Election Foretold
After silencing the opposition, Daniel Ortega claims victory for a fourth consecutive term ...
Crisis in Nicaragua: Is the US Trying to Overthrow the Ortega-Murillo Government? (Part II)
Washington's principal concern in Nicaragua is not getting rid of Ortega but preserving the interests of transnational capital ...
Crisis in Nicaragua: Is the Ortega-Murillo Government Leftist? (Part I)
Despite its revolutionary rhetoric, the Nicaraguan government has implemented policies that veer away from the Sandinistas' socialist roots ...
The Second Implosion of Central America
The decline of global capitalism points to another total economic collapse of Central America, reminiscent of the regional upheaval of ...
Violence, Displacement, and Death
The focus of the summer 2016 NACLA Report on the Americas, this forum reflects on the connection between drug war violence ...
Latin America in the New Global Capitalism
The new face of global capitalism is everywhere in Latin America, from the fast-food chains and superstores that dominate local ...
Latin America in the New Global Capitalism
During the mid-1980s, I would travel from my home in Nicaragua to San Salvador, El Salvador, where I frequented ...
What’s Next for the Left in Latin America?
Latin America has been the cutting edge of struggles worldwide against neoliberalism. Several alternatives to the dominant model of global ...
The Democracy Network
The National Endowment for Democ- racy (NED) was set up by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to bolster U.S. foreign ...
The New Right and the End of National Liberation
The political economies of Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with those of every other Central American country, are undergoing remarkable ...
Democracy or Polyarchy?
To favor democracy means to oppose U.S. foreign policy in the name of democracy. The issue is not whether democracy ...
