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  On April 18th the Elders Council of La Mosquitia (considered the maximum authority of the indigenous Miskito people's traditional organizational structure) held an assembly in Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas) at which they declared the independence of the Northern and Southern Atlantic Regions (RAAN and RAAS) from Nicaragua. The new nation... » read this article

"We have a US President [Obama] who says we should forget the past, but who himself in trapped in the past, he is trapped in a 50 year long blockade on Cuba. ... What was made clear at the summit is that the US has not changed and that Latin... » read this article

Editor's Note: We missed this one! Karla Jacobs was ahead of the game when she wrote her analysis of the SICA meeting and Joe Biden's visit to Central American presidents prior to the all-important Summit of the Americas - about which so much has been published in the week past.... » read this article

April 17th 2009 On April 5th (Palm Sunday) Nicaragua's centrist corporate daily, El Nuevo Diario, published what has since become an infamous and highly controversial interview with Abelardo Mata, Bishop of Estelí and Vice President of the Nicaraguan Catholic Bishops Conference. The front-page headline read "Mata fears civil war." The... » read this article

The opposition forces in Nicaragua, which consist of the different right wing and center right political parties, the corporate media and a number of influential NGOs, claim that the FSLN, in cahoots with the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), perpetrated massive fraud in the recent municipal elections. "How else could the... » read this article

Editors' Note: Axis of Logic endorses and fully supports The Manifesto: In Defense of Nicaragua. Reader, please consider adding your support to the Sandanista government in opposition to U.S. and European interference in the domestic affairs of Nicaragua. Stand up for Nicaragua and all of Latin America as this fledgling... » read this article

Editor's Note: Axis of Logic asks readers to consider adding your signatures to this worthy manifesto, "In Defence of Nicaragua". Thank you! - Axis of Logic Editors     Friends and comrades The Manifesto "IN DEFENCE OF NICARAGUA" is the initiative of a group of Nicaraguans and internationalists aiming to... » read this article

Two months have passed since Hurricane Felix smashed into the north Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, destroying more than 350 communities and entire forests - fifty days of torrential rains in the western, north-central regions and on the Pacific side added to the national disaster - and the damage continues. President... » read this article

  The unanticipated left turn of the newly elected Frente Sandinista government last January has polarized politics in Nicaragua. Ever belligerent, the White House is actively probing for ways to take advantage of the situation. The threat of widening conflict has begun to pose the need to rebuild the solidarity... » read this article

[Phil Cournoyer is a Nicaraguan citizen and longtime member of the FSLN [Sandinista National Liberation Front (Sandinistas)]. He has been an active socialist in Canada and Nicaragua for almost 50 years.] More than six months have passed since the inauguration of the new "21st Century Sandinista" government of Nicaragua last... » read this article