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Nicaraguans cross a border river on rafts to Guasaule, Honduras, Thursday, October 28, 2021, to be vaccinated against Covid-19
NICARAGUAN indigenous and civil society groups have written an open letter to the United Nations warning against political manipulation by US-funded NGOs to undermine the democratically elected government.
The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign is is one of more than 30 international religious groups and organisations to have also signed the letter which has been sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
It accuses the NGOs, including the US-based Oakland Institute, of silencing the voices of Nicaragua’s indigenous people and ignoring community leaders when conducting reports.
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS
