In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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The attempted 2018 coup in Nicaragua: why its support collapsed
In the third of four articles, DAN KOVALIK and JOHN PERRY show how the initial support for the insurrection peaked and then faded under a wave of kidnapping, torture and deadly violence
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AFTER more than a month of conflict, most Nicaraguans hoped that a “national dialogue” set up by the Catholic church in May 2018 would lead to peace, but in fact, it led to renewed violence.
During the hiatus before the dialogue began, and with the police now confined to their police stations on Daniel Ortega’s orders, roadblocks were set up on all the country’s arterial roads and throughout many key cities.
Quickly dubbed “los tranques de la muerte” (death roadblocks), they not only strangled the country’s transport system but became the scene of intimidation, robberies, rape, kidnappings and murder.
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