Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition 6.4.2026: Speeches in the UN; Solidarity Activists Remember; Hondurasgate
Nicaragua Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke at the United Nations
Stephen Sefton: North Americans Speak of Solidarity with Nicaragua Comrade Brian Willson is the unparalleled paradigm of the love for Nicaragua and its Revolution fostered by American solidarity. This year at the National Assembly, Brian explained how his experiences in Vietnam and Nicaragua helped him overcome his fear of being afraid, commenting, “It’s not heroic. It’s following the empathy of your heart… for me, the people of Nicaragua are heroic, as are the people of Vietnam. They inspired me to join them in the struggle against Western imperialism led by the United States.” Also comments by: Dan Kovalik, Arnold Matlin, Barbara Larcom, Susan Lagos, Sara Flounders, Margaret Kimberley, Stansfield Smith, Jeffrey Higgins, Jill Clark-Gollub, Kathy Hoyt, Nan McCurdy, Roger Harris, Gloria Guillo, Michael Boudreau, Rick Sterling, Becca Renk, Fred Morris. Our Co-President, Commander Daniel, commented in 2021, “There are many North Americans who are Friends of the People, who write to us, who offer us solidarity. To these North American brothers and sisters, we say: Thank you, you honor the American people…”
Nicaragua Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke Speech at the UN 4. Poverty, wars, climate change, and in particular the imposition of illegal unilateral coercive measures, which constitute crimes against humanity, threaten the right to development, health, education, food and the very life of entire peoples. These measures are the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the eradication of Poverty. 8. Nicaragua wishes to pay fraternal recognition to the People's Republic of China, to all its models of global integration: the Belt and Road initiative, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, among various others, which offer developing countries mechanisms for cooperation based on respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and with the total absence of political or any other conditions. 9. Nicaragua deeply values this practical solidarity, which constitutes a living example of how international cooperation should work in accordance with the principles of the Charter. We acknowledge and thank the People's Republic of China as reliable, supportive, fraternal and a firm defender of the Global South.
Co-President Rosario Murillo commented elsewhere that unilateral coercive measures “directly threaten the peace, development, and security of our peoples; poverty, war, climate change, illegal impositions, and unilateral coercive measures—which constitute crimes against humanity—undermine the right to development of all peoples, the right to education, health, food, and the very lives of entire peoples.”
Co-Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke at UN: Non-Aligned Countries Always are in Solidarity with Cuba Nicaragua categorically condemns the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against Cuba, as well as the new restrictions, the energy blockade, secondary measures, threats and pressure tactics that seek to suffocate an entire people for defending their sovereignty, their independence and their right to freely decide their own destiny. These measures are unjust, illegal, inhumane, and contrary to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. They constitute a direct attack on the right to development, peace, stability, and dignity of a people who, despite the difficulties imposed upon them, have demonstrated to the world an immense capacity for resilience, solidarity, and contribution to the common good. Cuba does not threaten anyone. Cuba saves lives, trains doctors, and shares science, culture, education, and solidarity with the peoples of the Global South. Nicaragua recognizes Cuba as a moral, cultural, scientific, and revolutionary power, committed to solidarity and the common good.
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Stalin Vladimir Centeno: This is how we are defeating poverty One of the most visible changes in poverty reduction is occurring in public health. Nicaragua has already reached a network of 80 public hospitals with the inauguration of the Coro de Ángeles Pediatric Hospital in Estelí. When a country succeeds in bringing modern hospitals, specialists, and free care closer to its poorest families, it also begins to defeat one of the harshest forms of poverty: exclusion from basic services. Nicaragua has now surpassed 99% national electrification, a figure that contrasts sharply with the energy deficit that existed two decades ago in large rural areas of the country. Since 2007, thousands of urban and rural electrification projects have been implemented, bringing energy to historically excluded communities. This is how we are defeating poverty: by increasing production, creating jobs, and strengthening national production, while also expanding economic relations with the major powers that now drive a significant portion of the global economy.
John Perry, Roger Harris: Hondurasgate: A Symptom of Deeper Crises in Honduras and a Warning for Latin America Governance in Honduras shifted sharply to the extreme right within months of National Party’s Nasry Asfura taking office on January 27, succeeding the Libre party’s progressive Xiomara Castro. In November 30 elections, the National Party was trailing a poor third before Trump threatened to end all aid to Honduras unless Asfura won. A trove of leaked audio recordings, now dubbed “Hondurasgate,” are 37 recordings appearing to show that Hernández – still in the US – is preparing a return to Honduran politics and, in league with Republican party officials, actively produce propaganda directed against progressive governments across Latin America.
These developments signal Honduras’s return to the corrupt and criminal neoliberal order that prevailed after the 2009 military coup and lasted until Xiomara Castro’s presidency in January 2022. Cuts in public spending and attacks on the rights of the 60% of Hondurans living in poverty constitute Asfura’s austerity program. But Asfura’s and Hernández’s aims are for a much wider transformation of the country. The blatant US intervention exemplified by Hondurasgate may be an ominous foreshadowing of likely interference in the upcoming elections in Colombia (this month), Brazil (October), and Mexico (2030), all currently governed by progressives.
Camila Escalante: Venezuelans reflect four months on from U.S. attack Members of the Comuna Socialista Simón Bolívar in Caracas' 23 de Enero neighborhood share how they experienced the U.S. terrorist attack on Venezuela on January 3rd, in which the US killed 130 people and abducted President Maduro and Cilia Flores, while targeting civilian infrastructure. Members also express their views on the situation in the country, four months and change since the invasion. Home to 17,000 residents, this commune protects the 4F mountain barracks, the resting place of Commander Hugo Chávez.
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