Compas de Nicaragua Presents: Women in Action Folklore Dance Tour

Compas de Nicaragua will be organizing our third Women in Action (WIA) dance tour in the US from September 12 through November 2, 2010. The tour will bring six young people from WIA to the U.S. to perform traditional dances while educating audiences about Nicaragua’s culture and current conditions. The tour will be a wonderful way to reach out to your community and raise awareness about other cultures, issues of poverty, and Compas and Women in Action’s important work.
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The delegation met with Education Minister Miguel de Castilla (left).

By Katherine Hoyt

The Nicaragua Network sponsored a delegation to Nicaragua from January 10 to 18, 2009 on which Chuck Kaufman and I both were able to travel with a diverse group of members that included university professors, primary school teachers, students, a family physician, and a librarian. Our goal was to learn more about what two full years of Sandinista government has meant for Nicaragua. We found answers to some of our questions and found that we had only begun to learn the answers to others. We were confronted with statements from different sources that strongly contradicted each other. In some cases we were able to at least partially resolve those contradictions; in others we were not.

We had a number of meetings in Managua before traveling to Matagalpa to get a different perspective. We heard severe criticisms of government programs from some but found that in practice the criticized programs were making a difference, albeit with problems recognized by the people involved in implementing them.

To read more, click here:
january-2009-delegation-report.pdf

July 16-22, 2007

We were a moderately diverse group of activists, students, and teachers, including elementary school and college teachers, some retired and some still teaching. Our goal as a delegation sponsored by the Nicaragua Network was to learn about efforts to challenge what is known as the Washington Consensus, sometimes known as “the privatization of everything,” the economic model imposed by the United States and the international institutions it dominates. We visited offices and centers of the new Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega as well as projects that have been serving for years as models of people-centered development. We found excitement and hope as well as the problems and concerns that come with sudden change.
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Report Back from the Nicaraguan Election Interference Monitoring Delegation
October 8 -15, 2006

By Tom Loudon, Quest for Peace staff

Our jointly sponsored Quest for Peace and Nicaragua Network delegation recently returned from Nicaragua after a very successful visit. The purpose of our trip was to investigate and monitor the level of illegal U.S. intervention in the Election process underway. Nicaraguans will elect a new president and assembly delegates this coming November 5th, and the U.S. Embassy and other members of the U.S. government have been intervening in the Nicaraguan process in a number of troublesome ways. (more…)

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Report finds condemnation of US role among Nicaraguan parties and civil society groups.

JULY 10, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Nicaragua Network at 202-544-9355 or
Assoc. Prof. Karen Kampwirth at Knox College 309-341-7138
Asst. Prof. Hector Perla at Ohio University 740-597-1820
(English or Spanish)

WASHINGTON - July 10 - The Nicaragua Network sent a delegation of academics and representatives of human rights and solidarity groups to Nicaragua June 17-24, 2006, to investigate the role of the US government in Nicaragua’s presidential election scheduled for November 5, 2006. The Nicaragua Network is a national network of local committees which has worked for 27 years to change US government policy toward Nicaragua.
In all the delegation held formal meetings with 30 people representing the full spectrum of Nicaragua’s politics.

[One week after the delegation returned to the US, presidential one of the four principal candidates, Herty Lewites, died of a heart attack. While domestically his death had profound consequences, it had no effect on the findings of our delegation. The delegation had a narrow mission to investigate the US government role in the Nicaraguan election.] (more…)

“Let the Rivers Run!” Tour Visits Seven States:
A Better World is Possible
By Barbara Larcom

[Barbara Larcom is a member of the Nicaragua Network Executive Committee and coordinator of Casa Baltimore Limay.]

One million two hundred thousand trees. Wow! That’s the number of trees planted in one northern Nicaragua region in two years, by a federation of local farmer groups. In late April, I was privileged to accompany Elvin Castellon on a Nicaragua Network national speaking tour as he described the work of his organization, FEDICAMP (Federation for Integral Development of Peasant Farmers). They’re doing important work that deserves our ongoing solidarity. (more…)

“Nueva Vida” Means New Life!
October 2004
By Barbara Larcom

Two women from a fair-trade sewing cooperative have recently inspired us with their story, reminding us that “A better world is possible” when people work hard together to build it. During their month-long U.S. speaking tour of 20 cities, which ended October 17, Ruth Mena and Yadira Vallejos of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, described the Nueva Vida cooperative which they and others co-founded six years ago. (more…)