Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition 3.25.2026: Nicaragua in the US Plan to Recolonize Latin America
TeleSur: President Lula Warns that the US Aims to Colonize the Americas At the CELAC-Africa Forum on March 21, Lula issued one of his sharpest critiques of US foreign policy in recent years. He described current military and diplomatic moves as part of a deliberate plan to reimpose colonial dominance across the Western Hemisphere. “They want to colonize us again,” Lula declared, linking recent interventions to a broader erosion of self-determination. He accused Washington of fabricating lies to justify regional destruction and maintain control over sovereign nations.
John Perry: UN “Experts” Fueling Washington’s Attacks on Nicaragua UN “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. Yet, for them, Nicaragua is “a giant prison” in which the Sandinista government “has effectively taken its own population hostage.” These “human rights” groups all receive considerable U.S. funding. The role of the current UN group of “experts” is to firmly establish the narrative that the Sandinista government is to blame, without exception, for the hundreds of deaths and injuries that resulted from the coup attempt.
In their latest report, the “experts” take this one step further: They make the bizarre claim that hundreds of violent opposition attacks were, in reality, “false-flag” incidents. “Acts of vandalism against FSLN militants’ properties and private businesses, such as stoning, looting and arson,” they allege, were actually carried out by “pro-government armed groups” paid for from state funds.
The “experts” call for additional “targeted sanctions,” disregarding their illegitimacy in international law and that the UN itself rejects their unilateral imposition. As the group of “experts” continues to demonstrate, the main purpose of the “human rights industry” is manufacturing consent for regime change.
National Endowment of Democracy (NED)continues to fund opposition groups in Nicaragua On 24 February a US oversight hearing was held with Damon Wilson, President of the NED. The hearing made it clear that the NED continues to support and fund regime change in Nicaragua. Wilson said that the NED’s third largest program in the Western Hemisphere is aimed against Nicaragua (after Venezuela and Cuba) and stated that the NED works with organizations who ‘document’ what is happening in Nicaragua. All these organizations are linked to or headed by various opposition individuals and groups, for example there is ongoing support for the ‘campesino’ movement that was headed by Medardo Mairena who orchestrated the deaths of various police officers during the US-backed attempted coup in 2018.
Stephen Sefton: Stability and moral equilibrium of the Sandinista People's RevolutionThe influence for peace in the region by the revolutionary governments of Cuba and Nicaragua has been of great importance, as has that of the governments in South America that are attempting to resist renewed imperialist aggression, such as those of Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela, and to some extent, Brazil. To varying degrees, a common factor among all these governments is their commitment to the human development of their people and the reduction of poverty. This has been the reason for the economic aggression of Western elites against governments that defend sovereignty and national dignity. Their countries and people are attacked with unilateral coercive measures and, in the case of Venezuela, with military aggression, in order to diminish their capacity to defend national sovereignty and respond to the needs and aspirations of their families and communities. More than 85% of the population approve of the direction Commander Daniel and Comrade Rosario are taking us.
In the Nicaraguan Caribbean, black and 'Miskito' women in powerFor much of Nicaraguan history, women, and particularly Afro-descendant and Indigenous women, occupied a marginal place in politics. Although they were pillars of community life, their participation in spaces such as territorial and regional governments or Parliament was limited or nonexistent. "That is why the Sandinista Front, in its historical program, claims these rights of women, speaks of the emancipation of women which materialized [in the] Political Constitution and participation in the first stage of the Revolution and now with the laws promoted and strengthened in the second stage," said Shaira Downs, representative of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region to the National Assembly of Nicaragua…We come from a community culture [that] today drives me to work collectively, to guarantee inclusion and to make known our culture, our identity as an equal part, as stated in our Political Constitution, our laws, everything that has to do with that multiethnicity, that multiculturalism that we have."
Today, Nicaragua has introduced indigenous languages from the Caribbean regions and Spanish into the curriculum starting in the second grade of primary school, a step towards upholding rights under the Sandinista administration. In Afro-Caribbean and Miskito communities, these and other changes reflect a concrete transformation. According to Ana Valeria Alfred, a Miskito leader, "before we were excluded, [but] today we are at the forefront," she said, referring to the territorial positions that the autonomy law makes possible for women in the Caribbean, where 36.2% of their Nicaraguan territory has been recognized as indigenous.
Nicaraguan Central Bank report on the Economy The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 4.9% in 2025, reaffirming the path of sustained economic growth. Total exports reached a record $8,908.9 million, driven by the national productive sector. Inflation remained controlled and low, accumulating a rate of 2.7%, and international reserves reached a historic level of $8,324.8 million, advancing to over $9 billion by February 2026. The unemployment rate was low, ending at 2.4%.
Presentation by Comrade Jaime Hermida, Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United Nations, on the World Situation He gives a lengthy presentation on how the Nicaraguan government regards the world situation. On the war on Iran: “Trump and his officials contradict each other, and every day they come up with and argue one justification after another, or frequently change their reasons, when what they said before no longer works, or doesn't convince anyone, sometimes not even their own allies…. It should also be noted that the world consumes around 100 million barrels per day, and crude oil prices have risen approximately 50% since the United States and Israel launched their attacks…they are spending more than $890 million every day and that this could reach $1 billion very soon.”
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