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Aug 3, 20155 min read
Los niños de la Doctrina Monroe: las raíces militarizadas de la calamidad fronteriza de EE.UU.
por Arturo J. Viscarra y Michael Prentice – No se puede resolver la crisis de la frontera EE.UU.-México a menos que EE.UU. acepte su...
Apr 15, 20143 min read
Interview with a Nicaraguan Free Trade Zone Worker
By WfP Nicaragua Team “What I would like and what I hope for (my country) is that in every Free Trade Zone there be a union and that...
Apr 15, 20143 min read
Entrevista con una trabajadora de una Zona Franca en Nicaragua
Por Equipo de APP Nicaragua ” Lo que me gustaría y deseaba es que en todos la Zonas Francas tienen un sindicato donde no fueron...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
What have we learned from DR-CAFTA Nearly a Decade Later: Understanding the Nicaraguan reality
By Ileana Valle, WfP Nicaragua Team According to the World Bank, Nicaragua was able to mitigate the global economic crisis in 2008. In...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
¿Qué hemos aprendido del DR-CAFTA en casi una década más tarde?: Comprendiendo la realidad nicaragüe
Por Ileana Valle, Equipo de APP Nicaragua Según el Banco Mundial, Nicaragua fue capaz de mitigar la crisis económica global en 2008. De...
Nov 2, 20125 min read
Election Blog Series – Honduras: Why U.S. Policy Needs a Re-Set
-by Witness for Peace Honduras/Nicaragua Team Why U.S. Policy in Honduras Needs a Re-Set Although neither candidate mentioned Honduras in...
Jun 26, 20125 min read
U.S. Threatens to Cut All Aid to Nicaragua
By: Christine Goffredo WFP Nicaragua Team Member Many people in the U.S. know about Nicaragua from the Sandinista revolution in the...
Oct 13, 20112 min read
Foreign Direct Invasion: What “Free Trade” means for small producers
By Riahl O’Malley Witness for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Yesterday Congress passed three new Free Trade Agreements with Panama,...
Oct 11, 20112 min read
Lessons from a Canine Immigrant
By Sara Joseph Communications Associate, Witness for Peace During the year-and-a-half that I worked in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace,...
Sep 8, 20113 min read
Small Victory in the Struggle Against Dole, Thousands Still Waiting for Justice
By Brooke Denmark International Team – Nicaragua Last Thursday there was a rare excitement in the air when we met with the group of...
Aug 1, 20113 min read
“We Returned Home Changed:” Reflections on the 2011 Teen Delegation to Nicaragua
Gail Phares, one of Witness for Peace’s founders and the organization’s Southeast Regional Organizer, leads an annual teen delegation to...
May 25, 20112 min read
Back from the Campo
This week students from the College of New Jersey’s Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement are in Nicaragua with a Witness for...
May 20, 20112 min read
Nicaragua: “There is so much the world can learn from you. There is so much I have learned fr
This week students from the College of New Jersey’s Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement are in Nicaragua with a Witness for...
May 18, 20113 min read
Environmental Lessons from a Witness for Peace Delegation to Nicaragua
Last year a University of Portland student said that before joining a Witness for Peace delegation, “I was not politically aware, but...
May 18, 20115 min read
The Campo Homestay: “It’s outside our comfort zone but stepping out for 3 days and embr
This week students from the College of New Jersey’s Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement are in Nicaragua with a Witness for...
Jul 27, 20102 min read
The Senselessness of Hate
by Mark Stevens I recently saw an article on abcnews.com that investigates whether Arizona law SB1070 has sparked or intensified...
Jul 9, 20101 min read
Searching for the “American Dream”and falling victim to the “American Nightmare”
He was not successful in making it to the U.S. But his determination to give his children a better future would not allow him to quit. He...
Mar 8, 20103 min read
Facing the Free Trade Storm: CAFTA and Nicaraguan Families
In recent months, however, these remittances have all but disappeared. Both her brother and sister received sharp cuts in their working...
Dec 14, 20091 min read
Who’s Behind your Morning Cup of Coffee?
by Amy Shelton Nicaraguan coffee farmer and cooperative leader Eddy Gutierrez just visited Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky on a...
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