Letter to Robert Gates! On December 4, 2006, a letter with nearly 700 signatures
was delivered to the Senators on the Armed Services Committee. The letter
called for the Senators to ask Robert Gates, nominee for the position of Secretary
of Defense, questions surrounding his involvement in the Iran-Contra affairs
and other questionable activities. Click here
to see the letter and signatures. Report Back from the Nicaraguan Election Interference
Monitoring Delegation. The jointly sponsored Quest for Peace and Nicaragua Network delegation recently returned from Nicaragua after a very successful visit. The purpose of our trip was to investigate and monitor the level of illegal U.S. intervention in the Election process underway. Nicaraguans will elect a new president and assembly delegates this coming November 5th, and the U.S. Embassy and other members of the U.S. government have been intervening in the Nicaraguan process in a number of troublesome ways. [Read More] The Nicaragua Network sent a delegation of academics and representatives
of human rights and solidarity groups to Nicaragua June 17-24, 2006, to investigate
the role of the US government in Nicaragua's presidential election scheduled
for November 5, 2006. The Nicaragua Network is a national network of local
committees which has worked for 27 years to change US government policy toward
Nicaragua. [Read
More] US government intervention in Nicaraguan elections as well as those in Venezuela and elsewhere attempts to impose Washington's will under the guise of "democracy building." Join long-time Nicaragua Network National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman and other delegation members like retired Professor Harvey Williams of the University of the Pacific on an 8 day electoral fact finding delegation to Nicaragua June 17-24, 2006. [Read
More] This October delegation will be a follow-up to the delegation of academics
and activists that the Nicaragua Network organized in June to investigate
the blatant US government intervention in the November 5th Nicaraguan elections.
Without exception, Nicaraguan political parties and organizations that met
with the June delegation indicated that the United States had crossed the
line between cooperation and intervention. In light of the results of that
delegation, Quest for Peace and Nicaragua Network believe that it is necessary
to send still another delegation of US citizens from different walks of life
to Nicaragua to monitor US actions, talk with political party representatives
and civil society groups and to express to the Nicaraguan public the opposition
of US citizens to the subversion of their electoral system.[Read
More] The pre-election delegation organized by the Nicaragua Network, composed
of academics and activists, has completed a week of meetings with members
of Nicaraguan political parties and civil society organizations and with the
United States Ambassador in Nicaragua Paul Trivelli. [Read
More] The repeated interventionist statements by successive US ambassadors since
2004 have crossed the line between diplomacy and intervention in Nicaragua's
internal affairs. When a US ambassador threatens non-cooperation with a freely
elected government that does not have what the US government considers sensible
economic policies or does not wish to surrender control of its military to
the US’s interpretation of “security,” Nicaraguans think
not of aid cut offs, but of US-sponsored armed conflict because that was their
recent experience during the 1980s when the United States government organized,
funded, armed and trained a counter-revolutionary army to attempt to overthrow
the Nicaraguan government. That revolutionary government put in place a democratic
constitution and, when voted out of office in the 1990 elections, turned power
over to the winning coalition, thus marking the first peaceful turn-over of
power to an opposing political party in Nicaragua's history. [Read
More] The Nicaragua Network has been working to expose and stop intervention in
the internal affairs of Nicaragua by the U.S. government for over a quarter
of a century, most recently in connection with trips by U.S. officials to
push Nicaragua to approve CAFTA and to unite the political right in the country
in order to prevent an FSLN victory in the presidential elections of November
2006. The Nicaragua Network does not support any candidates in those elections.
Our position is that the people of Nicaragua have the sovereign right to choose
their leaders without interference from any foreign power. In light of this,
we have received the following letter from Daniel Ortega, General Secretary
of the FSLN. [Read More] In November of 2006 Nicaraguans will go to the polls to vote for their president
and deputies of the National Assembly. There has been and will be much activity
on the part of the US government to assure that the Nicaraguan elections are
“fair and democratic.” But what does that really mean?. [Read
More] Career diplomat John Negroponte has been nominated by President Bush to
be the first National Intelligence Director. He would have authority over
15 intelligence agencies and be the President's chief advisor on intelligence.
Negroponte's record on human rights and respect for international law makes
him uniquely unqualified for this important posting. [Read
More] NicaNet - The Nicaragua Network
Nicaragua Network pre-election delegation to Nicaragua releases report on
United States intervention in the Nicaraguan electoral process.
Election Interference Delegation
Second Election Interference Delegation
Election Interference Delegation Makes Statement to Press in Managua!
List of interventions by the United States government in Nicaragua's democratic
process.
Ortega letter
Stop U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua's November Elections!: Educate yourself
and take action!
John Negroponte Nominated to be National Intelligence Director!
