Secretary Marco Rubio departs Instanbul, Türkiye May 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett) The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds […]
Nicaragua is first in the world (64.3%) in share of women Cabinet members—those serving as heads of ministries—as of January 2025, and ranks third in the world for its share of women parliamentarians (55%). Figures on the most recent data on women in executive positions and national parliaments was presented in the “Women in Politics:
A delegation of the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua that is in Beijing to attend the IX Ministerial Meeting of the China Forum – CELAC, signed on Sunday, May 11, a series of contracts with Chinese companies, strengthening cooperation with the People’s Republic of China. A contract was signed with the companies ZMJ/HUAWEI for a Digital Connectivity Project to strengthen telecommunications in Nicaragua,
Dr. Carlos Argüello, Nicaraguan representative to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 1984. (April 30, 2024. UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/Frank van Beek) Nicaragua will be resuming the case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) relating to Germany’s breaches of international obligations, with respect to the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. Below is
The director of USAID Nicaragua Ted Gehr, in Mateare, Nicaragua. April 2018. Source: USAID Nicaragua US President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation? One “beneficiary” of USAID is Nicaragua, a country with
Traditional field work by a pair of oxen in a (non-GMO) corn field in the northern department of Madriz. Photo: Friends of the ATC Nicaragua has communicated its withdrawal from the FAO following the publication of a report which contained false information, disseminated in a malicious manner for political purposes in order to discredit Nicaragua’s
U.S. organizations are observing this year’s International Human Rights Day with a call to end the cruel unilateral coercive measures targeting Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on December 10, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A week of actions against sanctions will demand an
Statement delivered by Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua during the “General Debate of the 79th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations” New York, 30 September 2024.
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