NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control

  • Written by Benjamin Waddell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College

One year ago, Nicaragua’s government was on the verge of collapse.

Protests against President Daniel Ortega exploded nationwide on April 19, 2018 after the government quietly passed a tax on retirees’ pension checks. Demonstrators barricaded highways and main roads, paralyzing Nicaragua’s economy.

By May 2018, 70% of Nicaraguans wan...

Read more: One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control

More Articles ...

  1. Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch
  2. Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving progressive ideals of the Social Gospel Movement
  3. Russia isn't the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications
  4. Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them help slow climate change?
  5. The new digital divide is between people who opt out of algorithms and people who don't
  6. A political stalemate over Puerto Rican aid is leaving all US disaster funding in limbo
  7. In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed Russia's Winter Palace
  8. The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
  9. Boeing crashes and Uber collision show passenger safety relies on corporate promises, not regulators' tests
  10. What it means to ‘know your audience’ when communicating about science
  11. Journalism's Assange problem
  12. Marijuana legalization – a rare issue where women are more conservative than men
  13. How Hispanics really feel about Trump
  14. Brunei wants to punish gay sex with death by stoning – can boycotts stop it?
  15. Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed
  16. Top EPA advisers challenge long-standing air pollution science, threatening Americans' health
  17. A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
  18. April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough?
  19. Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here's how workers can tell if they'll be replaced
  20. Mapping the US counties where traffic air pollution hurts children the most
  21. Leonardo joined art with engineering
  22. How the alt-right corrupts the Constitution
  23. Is 75 the new 65? Wealthy countries need to rethink what it means to be old
  24. Why LeBron James' I Promise School should be more like LeBron and not shy away from issues of race
  25. This small Mexican border town prizes its human and environmental links with the US
  26. The Mormon Church still doesn't accept same-sex couples – even if it no longer bars their children
  27. Civic crowdfunding reduces the risk of 'bikelash'
  28. Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’
  29. Venezuela's crisis is a tragedy - but comedy gold for satire, cartoons and memes
  30. Why the Great Plains has such epic weather
  31. America and the world still need the WTO to keep trade and the global economy humming
  32. People who win big prizes shouldn’t get taxed when they give their windfalls away
  33. Tax returns waste everyone's time – but there's an easy solution the tax preparation industry and some lawmakers don't like
  34. Does a year in space make you older or younger?
  35. How US tax laws discriminate against women, gays and people of color
  36. Why giant statues of Hindu gods and leaders are making Muslims in India nervous
  37. Are America's teachers really underpaid?
  38. Can changing the microbiome reverse lactose intolerance?
  39. Don't shoot! That drone overhead probably isn't invading your privacy
  40. A happy ending for 'Game of Thrones'? No thanks
  41. Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse
  42. From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promises
  43. Measles outbreaks show legal challenges of balancing personal rights and public good
  44. Brexit is a rejection of the Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland
  45. A thousand years ago, the Catholic Church paid little attention to homosexuality
  46. When people downsize to tiny houses, they adopt more environmentally friendly lifestyles
  47. How a 'missing' movement made gun control a winning issue
  48. Michelle Obama is a surprise textbook example of how women thrive and grow through adulthood
  49. Data show how American mothers balance work and family
  50. 8 things you may not know about Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death