![]() ![]() Vice President Rosario Murillo announced on April 28 that 6.86 million vaccines against COVID-19 (to vaccinate 3.27 million Nicaraguans) will be acquired with a financing of US$100 million approved by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Nicaragua Will Be Able to Protect its Population Our actions must speak louder than the propaganda-get involved by joining contacting your congress members, and/or donating to the Nicaragua Solidarity Fund and AfGJ. You can help Nicaragua today by resisting sanctions. In Washington, the think tanks are publishing their lauded studies, while back in Nicaragua someone is doing the real work, plunging a shovel into the fertile ground. Paid social media posts and fabricated reports bury the country’s extraordinary reality, producing their own hostile version. Upon returning to the U.S., news has broken that a Democratic senator is introducing further sanctions on Nicaragua, cutting it off further from developmental aid. It is clear, at least, to the Nicaraguan people they have fought this war for over a century. would love to see Nicaragua suffer, that it is waging its war not just against the government, but against its workers, its mothers and its children. Gerardo at sunset beside the Mombacho volcano. The government has helped in rebuilding through efforts like Plan Techo, which provided over half a million new roofs to the coastal communities within a month of the hurricanes. Last November, when hurricanes Eta and Iota ravaged the coast, 160,000 people were relocated in advance-0 died. In the past several years, the region has seen massive amounts of development including going from very little electricity to nearly complete coverage of electricity and the construction of hospitals in every municipality. One year after the most recent sanctions went into effect, the Sandinista government finished the first highway to ever connect the Caribbean to the Pacific coast, creating access to areas which had previously been in isolation and allowing easier movement of people, farm and sea products. Self-governing municipalities have access to state programs which supply resources to the region. The autonomous Caribbean Region is a unique example of Indigenous sovereignty organized within the national context. ![]() A fisherman points to his boat off Corn Island, located on the autonomous Caribbean coast. ![]()
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