Manifeste
: "Défendons
le Nicaragua" contre
la campagne de harcèlement et dénigrement menée par les Etats-Unis
et les
plus puissants gouvernements européens
A more transparent example of
persistent deceit and falsehood would be hard to find than the current
campaign attempting to discredit Nicaragua's municipal elections of
November 9th. The controversy makes little sense in isolation. It is
the latest phase of a long disinformation campaign, begun even before
Nicaragua's presidential elections of 2006. It is also part of the
wider campaign by the United States and its European accomplices to
undermine Latin American regional integration processes threatening
their power and influence and that of their allies among the local
regional elites. toni solo looks at how that campaign works in Nicaragua.
En
la tercera semana de diciembre, la Segunda Secrtaria de la Junta
Directiva de la Asamblea Nacional dio una entrevista en que habla sobre
los logros del gobierno, la crisis de parálisis en el poder
legislativo,
las dificultades con la cooperación externa y también un poco del
contexto regional.
Alba Palacios
Audio commentary
: Domestic
political crisis, President Ortega's visit to Russia, the international
context, Manifesto in Defence of Nicaragua and the progressive media
There
are many factors that lead one to wonder what would have become of
Nicaragua if one of the right wing candidates had won the presidential
elections in 2006. Surely one of the most critical issues that the
national right wing, in its various party political manifestions,
failed
to address while in government was the virtual collapse of the
country's electrical energy
sector. Karla Jacobs examines policy options followed by the
FSLN government since January 2007
Audio commentary
: development cooperation
blackmail, Central American context, relations with Russia
The international coverage of the
municipal elections in Nicaragua demonstrates that progressive media of
opinion and analysis can be just as resistant to reality as their
corporate counterparts, living in a virtual world according to personal
taste. Why read false, hypocritical attacks on the FSLN in "Le Monde
Diplomatique" when one can read the same kind of poison in "the
Economist"?... toni solo looks at issues raised by coverage, or the
lack of it, of the Nicaraguan municipal elections
Audio commentary
: impasse, opposition ructions,
external aid blackmail
Por
años ha sido más que
evidente la trayectoria que iba a tomar la
política de los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y Europa hacia los países
progresistas en América Latina. Actualmente aquellos gobiernos amenazan
al gobierno de Nicaragua con recortes en los programas de
cooperación para el desarrollo. Así esperan poder reforzar una
oposición derrotada que no tiene otro programa politica que sabotear su
propio país.
En diciembre de 2006, fue
posible
escribir "Uno sólo puede esperar que la Primavera de América Latina
dure más que la de Checoslovaquia (de 1968) y evita ser congelada por
Estados Unidos y sus aliados de los países de Europa y del Pacífico,
quienes podrían manipular la ralentización económica como una variante
de la frase de Clausewitz "la política hecha de otra manera". Una
esperanza en vano, como los últimos acontecimientos en América Latina
han demostrado. toni solo comenta sobre el contexto
On December 5th the XXXIII Presidential Summit of the Central American
Integration System (SICA) took place in San Pedro Sula, northern
Honduras. The main purpose of the summit was to discuss the impact of
the international financial crisis on the region and approve a plan of
urgent measures aiming to reduce the damage caused by that crisis.
Current SICA President Mel Zelaya of Honduras handed over SICA's
rotating six months presidency to Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega.
Karla Jacobs reports the details of the summit.
SICA logo
Audio Commentary
:
political impasse and the ALBA summit
Miguel
de Castilla
Ministro de Educación de Nicaragua
En
esta entrevista Ministro Miguel de Castilla habla sobre el pésimo
contexto educativo
con que se encontró al asumir su posición en enero del 2007: un
contexto donde 34% de los niños y jóvenes de edad escolar non tenían
acceso a la educación y un sistema educativo totalmente desarticulado.
El Ministro procede a detallar la gigantesca e inspiradora tarea
educativa que se ha planteado el MINED de transformar el sistema
pública de educación para construir, de manera incluyente y colectiva,
la
nueva educación nicaraguense.
leaders of
the ALBA countries at the summit in Caracas in November
For
years it has been more than clear the course US and European Union
policy would take towards the progressive governments of Latin America.
Even in December 2006 it was possible to write "One can only hope Latin
America's Spring endures longer than the one in then Czechoslovakia and
is not frozen stiff by the United States and its European and Pacific
allies manipulating global "free markets" so as to manage economic
downturn as a variation on Clausewitz's "politics by other means"." A
vain hope, it turns out, as recent events in Nicaragua and other
Latin American countries have demonstrated. toni solo takes a closer
look...
