By Chuck Kaufman
[Kaufman is National Co-Coordinator of the Nicaragua Network.]

The Oct. 16-18, 2009 Nicaragua Network regional conference in Baltimore, MD, brought together over 50 Nicaragua solidarity activists from Maine to Georgia and west to Chicago. Hosted by the Casa Baltimore/Limay sister city committee, the conference featured Nicaraguan Ambassador Magda Enriquez; the grandson of Augusto C. Sandino, Walter Castillo Sandino; a delegation from San Juan de Limay, Nicaragua; and Nicaragua’s most famous reggae singer/songwriter, Philip Montalban from Bluefields.

Ambassador Enriquez converses with Prof. Angelica Gonzalez of San Juan de Limay.

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Walter Castillo Sandino

Featuring:
Walter Castillo Sandino, grandson of Augusto Sandino
Nicaraguan reggae singer-songwriter Philip Montalban
Ambassador Magda Enriquez, senior advisor to Fr. Miguel D’Escoto at the UN

Mark your calendar for Oct. 16 - 18 which will be the regional meeting of the Nicaragua Network in Baltimore, MD, hosted by the Casa Baltimore/Limay sister city committee! For over 30 years Nicaragua Network has helped to bring together groups and individuals working in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.
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July 13-15, 2007

Two hundred people from the United States and Nicaragua gathered at the Olofito Center in Managua July 13 to 15, 2007, to confirm their mutual solidarity in what all appeared to agree was a successful conference. Among the attendees were representatives of sister communities (sister cities, sister parishes, etc.), peace and justice activists, leaders of Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations and popular movements, environmentalists, religious personnel, and even a delegation of Rotarians from Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The solidarity conference was sponsored by the Nicaragua Network and co-sponsored by numerous other solidarity groups around the country. The Nicaragua Network worked in partnership with the Kairos Association for Formation in Nicaragua in the planning and logistics for the conference. Nicanet convened a planning committee in the United States which met regularly by conference call and Kairos convened a planning committee of Nicaraguan groups that met in Managua. Constant electricity outages and political differences among our traditional partners in Nicaragua made the planning for this conference a challenge for a while, but as the conference date neared, everything seemed to smooth out and we gained confidence that things would go smoothly.
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