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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

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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La Tesorería de E.U.A sanciona a compañías mineras de Nicaragua por violaciones de derechos
Más allá de las sanciones, es imperativo que los gobiernos de EUA, Canadá y más allá actúen rápidamente para prevenir que empresas mineras que están registradas en sus países sigan fomentando dicha violencia y desposesión.
Miskitu villager shares her testimony
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Nicaraguan Government’s Closure of Organizations Defending Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples Is an Attempt to Silence Their Struggle for Lands and Lives
Since last week, the Nicaraguan government has stripped 29 NGOs of their legal status including two founded by Indigenous and Afrodescendant Nicaraguans to defend their peoples' autonomy and rights
Aftermath of hurricanes in Nicaragua, Nov 2020.
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Devastating Hurricanes Threaten Years of Consequences for Indigenous Peoples amid Settler Invasion in Nicaragua
---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- December 3, 2020 Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal [email protected] +1 510-530-5126 Oakland, CA — After northeastern Nicaragua took direct hits from two massive hurricanes in November, the full consequences for the Indigenous Miskitu and Mayangna communities are only now coming into view. Hurricanes Eta and Iota slammed into the area surrounding the regional capital of Bilwi on November 3 and 16, respectively, demolishing several coastal Miskitu communities and having devastating effects for many other communities throughout the region.

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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.