Daniel Kovalik 

Daniel Kovalik teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and is the author of “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil.”

Fuego de la montaña: En busca de Omar Cabezas

Durante años, me pregunté acerca de Omar Cabezas, el guerrillero sandinista que nos llevó al sueño de la revolución en primer lugar. ¿Dónde estaba ahora? ¿Aún apoyaba a los sandinistas ya Daniel? ¿Por qué los medios de comunicación no hablan con gente como él?

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Omar Cabezas Feature photo

  When I was in college in Dayton, Ohio in the late 1980s, radical students such as myself became quickly acquainted with the book Fire from the Mountain by Omar Cabezas. This book was in fact a bible of sorts for young people excited about the story of rag-tag guerillas in Central America fighting at impossible odds against U.S.-backed

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“No Mas!” Nicaragua Quits OAS as EU Tries to Undermine Venezuela Elections

Countries like Nicaragua and Venezuela should be applauded for rejecting the overt hypocrisy, hubris, and cruelty of the West, and for asserting their right to national sovereignty.

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Venezuela Elections OAS Feature photo

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- "We do not recognize ourselves as a colony of any power and we claim national dignity and decorum, in legitimate defense of our independence, sovereignty, and self-determination.”  With these words, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada announced that Nicaragua would be joining Venezuela in quitting the Organization of

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La cobertura de los medios de comunicación de Venezuela en los Estados Unidos alcanza su punto más bajo

Al analizar un total de 76 artículos de prensa de la prensa de "élite" del 15 de enero al 15 de abril de 2019, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) no pudo encontrar una sola voz que se opusiera a los planes del régimen de Trump en Venezuela.

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Venezuela | Coup

As famed Latin American author Eduardo Galeano once wrote, “every time the US ‘saves’ a country, it converts it into either an insane asylum or a cemetery.” Of course, as we look over the wreckage left by the US in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, we see that this statement is

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The NICA Act: Empire Sets Its Sights on Nicaragua – Again

As Noam Chomsky has opined numerous times, the US shall never forgive the Nicaraguan people for overthrowing the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979, for militarily defeating the Contras and for then voting back in the Sandinistas in 2007.

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A protester walks between burning tires in Managua, Nicaragua, April 20, 2018. Clashes, between protesters opposed to social security reforms and police and pro-government groups, rocked the capital, and a half-dozen other cities over the last three days. (AP/Alfredo Zuniga)

It was only a matter of time before the US government and its compliant media would once again put Nicaragua in their sights. And, that time has indeed come. Last year, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act of 2017 (NICA Act) which would cut that already-poor country off from

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