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What is really going on in Nicaragua?
LOUISE RICHARDS takes a closer look at the details of the reported attack on the Mayangna people of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve in the north of the country
Part of the Bosawas Reserve
[Rebecca Ore / Creative Commons]
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
MAINSTREAM media have lost no time in seizing yet another opportunity to vilify Nicaragua unfairly in the wake of an attack by armed men on the indigenous community of Alal, near the town of Bonanza in Bosawas on January 29.
The BBC published a piece under the headline “Six indigenous people ‘massacred’ in Nicaragua,” reporting uncorroborated allegations by “rights” groups that at least six people were killed and another 10 kidnapped.
The piece included an allegation by “environmental group” the Rio Foundation, which has called the attack a “massacre” (the Rio Foundation is in fact one of the NGOs which lost its legal status in 2018 due to its complicity in the attempted coup); and a quote from Gustavo Lino, who they say is the “highest-ranking leader” of the indigenous Mayangna community, saying: “They’re exterminating us little by little and the state is doing nothing.”
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