In this space the Nicaragua Network will post links to recent important and/or interesting English language articles on Nicaragua or by Nicaraguans in the publications of other organizations.

From the web page tortillaconsal.com:

Nicaragua : the progress made by the FSLN government in terms of infrastructure is transforming the country

By Karla Jacobs
23rd June 2010

When the FSLN government came to power in January 2007, it inherited a country whose infrastructure was on its knees. With few exceptions transport services had been neglected with roads, bridges, ports throughout the country left, literally, to rot, during the three previous neoliberal governments.

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From the Revista Envio July 2010

The Contradictory Legacy of the Sandinista Agrarian Reform

Thirty-one years after the triumph of the revolution some traces can still be found throughout the country of the Sandinista government’s agrarian reform. Some are set in boiling lava; others are no longer visible, just footprints in the sand… What did this project achieve? What are its contradictions? How many things were right, how many were mistakes? How much of it was paternalistic? What legacy remains of the agrarian reform, for good or for ill?

By José Luis Rocha

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Photo shows the Sandinistas headquartered at Hoyt’s house.

On the Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution
By Katherine Hoyt
[Hoyt is National Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network]

Right after Bayardo [Dr. Bayardo Gonzalez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua] and I were married in 1967, my father had told us, “When ‘comes the revolution,’ you send us the kids!” At that time, the Somoza family looked well-entrenched in power with no revolution in sight and we certainly had no kids. But, of course, the revolution did come and we did send the kids.

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Alliance for Global Justice (of which the Nicaragua Network is a member project) has for the second year in a row received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities.  

Here is what Charity Navigator wrote to the AGJ the first year: “Charity Navigator salutes your charitable efforts. Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates that your organization excels, as compared to other charities in America, in successfully managing the finances of your organization in an efficient and effective manner. This rise in your rating is an exceptional feat, especially given the economic challenges many charities have had to face in the last year.”

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