MRzine March 13, 2008

Mónica Baltodano was one of the Guerrilla Commanders of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) during the long struggle against the Somoza dictatorship. In 1979, she was part of the command structure in Managua that directed the insurrection in the Nicaraguan Capital. During the subsequent revolutionary period in Nicaragua, she served as Regional Affairs Minister. (Keep reading…)

IPS
10 March 2008

(IPS) - Hugs and handshakes between the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela put an end to a week-long political and diplomatic crisis that threatened to escalate into a regional conflict. (Keep reading…)

From: International News, Green Left Weekly issue #693 6 December 2006.

Nicaragua’s Sandinistas will never forget the night of November 5 and the four days of street celebrations that followed. The first official results of the election came in around 11pm. They foretold that Daniel Ortega, presidential candidate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), would win on the first round. Partisans of the Sandinista movement, which led the popular revolution of 1979, had waited 16 long, trying years for this day, ever since the Sandinista government went down to bitter defeat in February 1990. (Keep reading…)

from Counterpunch — November 7

Over the last few months, I had begun to doubt whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would indeed have the kind of political staying power that I described in my book, Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (recently released by St. Martin’s Press). (Keep reading…)