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Symbolic Sanctions
US Targets Nicaraguan Gold but Leaves Worst Actors Untouched
On May 15, 2024, the US Treasury Department sanctioned two Nicaraguan gold companies, Compañía Minera Internacional (COMINTSA) and Capital Mining Investment Nicaragua (“Capital Mining”), claiming that they are bringing in revenue for the Ortega-Murillo regime and are engaging in “corrupt practices.” 1 , Footnotes View all CloseU.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Nicaragua's Gold Rush
Theft of Indigenous Lands Unhindered by US Sanctions
In a new report, Nicaragua’s Gold Rush, the Oakland Institute exposes how, despite US sanctions on Nicaragua’s gold mining sector, the industry has boomed, fueled by foreign business interests. The US is the primary destination, accounting for a staggering 79 percent of total Nicaraguan gold exports.
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La fiebre del oro de Nicaragua
Oakland, California, EE. UU. – En un nuevo informe, La fiebre del oro de Nicaragua, el Oakland Institute expone que, a pesar de las sanciones de EE. UU. al sector de la extracción de oro de Nicaragua, la industria ha aumentado radicalmente, dirigida por empresas extranjeras. EE. UU. es el destino principal del producto e importa un asombroso 79 por ciento de todo el oro exportado de Nicaragua.
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Is Nicaragua For Sale?
Foreign Mining Companies Are Eager to Buy
In May 2020, the Oakland Institute published an independent report that documented the incessant violence facing the Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN) and provided in depth information about the actors involved -- foreign gold mining firms, national and international actors in logging and cattle ranching, Footnotes View all CloseCalibre Mining Corp.
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One Degree Removed
MLR Forestal's Ties to Indigenous and Afro-descendant Rights Violations
Over the last two decades, three men have exerted control over a set of massive mining concessions in northeastern Nicaragua known as the Mining Triangle., Footnotes View all CloseDomke Vargas, C.
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Nicaragua's Failed Revolution
Whereas widespread human rights suppression in Nicaragua has garnered international attention, violence faced by the Indigenous has gone largely ignored.
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Nicaragua's Failed Revolution
The Indigenous Struggle for Saneamiento
Nicaragua’s Failed Revolution details the incessant violence facing the Indigenous communities in the Caribbean Coast Autonomous Regions, as evidenced by recent attacks against the Alal, Wasakin, and Miskitu communities, and provides in depth information about the actors involved — foreign gold mining firms, national and international actors in logging and cattle ranching industry, as well as prominent Nicaraguan officials.

Press Releases & Public Statements

Homes burnt during the Wilu massacre
Press Release
Amidst Failed US Sanctions, the Indigenous Pay the Price for Nicaragua’s Gold Rush
In a new report, Nicaragua’s Gold Rush, the Oakland Institute exposes how, despite US sanctions on Nicaragua’s gold mining sector, the industry has boomed, fueled by foreign business interests. The US is the primary destination, accounting for a staggering 79 percent of total Nicaraguan gold exports.
Casas quemadas durante la masacre Wilu
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Entre el fracaso de las sanciones de EE. UU. en Nicaragua, los indígenas pagan el precio de la fiebre del oro
En un nuevo informe, La fiebre del oro de Nicaragua, el Oakland Institute expone que, a pesar de las sanciones de EE. UU. al sector de la extracción de oro de Nicaragua, la industria ha aumentado radicalmente, dirigida por empresas extranjeras. EE. UU. es el destino principal del producto e importa un asombroso 79 por ciento de todo el oro exportado de Nicaragua.
Burned houses in the community of Wilú, Mayangna Sauni As Territory
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The Oakland Institute Denounces Another Massacre of Indigenous People in Nicaragua with Complicity of the Global North
On March 11, 2023, settlers massacred at least five Indigenous Mayangna people in the community of Wilú, Mayangna Sauni As Territory.
Community meeting on the court hearing in Santa Fe, November 2018
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US Treasury Sanctions Nicaraguan State Mining Company for Role in Rights Abuses
Beyond these sanctions, it is imperative for governments in the US, Canada, and beyond to act quickly to prevent mining companies registered in their countries from advancing this violence and dispossession.

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The #HUNGERFORJUSTICE Broadcast: Nicaragua's Failed Revolution with Lottie Cunningham
The weekly #HUNGERFORJUSTICE Broadcast Series lays the building blocks for a just food system. Watch the recording of our episode with 2020 Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Indigenous lawyer Lottie Cunningham Wren. She is joined by The Oakland Institute's founder and executive director Anuradha Mittal and research fellow Josh Mayer to discuss Nicaragua's Failed Revolution.
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Nicaragua: Una Revolución Fallida Webinario en Español - Video
El 5 de agosto de 2020, lanzamos Nicaragua: Una Revolución Fallida: La Lucha Indígena Por El Saneamiento, una traducción al español del informe Nicaragua's Failed Revolution. Este informe expone a empresas extranjeras mineras de oro, actores nacionales e internacionales de la industria maderera y ganadera, así como a destacados funcionarios nicaragüenses detrás de la violencia incesante que enfrentan las comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes en la Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe del país.
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Webinar Video: Nicaragua's Failed Revolution
On April 29th, the Oakland Institute released a new report Nicaragua’s Failed Revolution: The Indigenous Struggle for Saneamiento exposing the drivers–foreign gold mining firms, national and international actors in logging and cattle ranching industry, as well as prominent Nicaraguan officials – behind the incessant violence facing the Indigenous & Afro-descendant communities in the Caribbean Coast Autonomous Regions of the country.

News Articles

El Faro
Nicaragua’s Gold Rush: A New Frontier of Corporate Extraction
A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, stealing land and extracting profits in a lucrative business environment enforced through state and paramilitary violence.
Mongabay
Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows
U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.
Havana Times
The Indigenous Pay the Price for Nicaragua’s Gold Rush
In a new report, Nicaragua’s Gold Rush, the Oakland Institute exposes how, despite US sanctions on Nicaragua’s gold mining sector, the industry has boomed, fueled by foreign business interests. The US is the primary destination, accounting for a staggering 79 percent of total Nicaraguan gold exports.
Havana Times
En Nicaragua, los indígenas pagan el precio de la fiebre del oro
En un nuevo informe, La fiebre del oro de Nicaragua, el Oakland Institute expone que, a pesar de las sanciones de EE. UU. al sector de la extracción de oro de Nicaragua, la industria ha aumentado radicalmente, dirigida por empresas extranjeras. EE. UU. es el destino principal del producto e importa un asombroso 79 por ciento de todo el oro exportado de Nicaragua.