Nicaragua: Sanctions in Three Acts

Goett, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/10714839.2019.1593680

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“…Further, his administration's performance of religiosity can often dampen any possible resonance between church and state. For example, Ortega's wife and the country's vice president, Rosario Murillo, practices a blend of Catholicism and New Age mysticism that many Nicaraguans, both Catholics and Pentecostals, regard as demonic (Goett 2019).…”

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The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas

Girard

2022

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Throughout the Americas, in countries such as Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States, right‐wing governments allied with conservative Christians have increasingly pursued violent and antidemocratic means to acquire and maintain political power. Understanding the success of these regimes requires clarity about the ways that “church” and “state” both fuse and diverge. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Honduras during the 2009 coup, this article details the right‐wing de facto government and Pentecostal churches’ conjoined efforts to bolster support for the coup by focusing on a specific mode of governance: the mapping and moralizing of space. In this case, church and state were unified in both their description of Honduras as a single, bounded entity and their division of other Latin American nations into the categories of friend or enemy. Yet, church and state did not align in their temporalities, ultimate aims, and the agents they depicted as active in the political struggles after the coup. Nevertheless, rather than fragmenting the pro‐coup movement, this combination of overlap and divergence strengthened this mode of governance and brought together a broad coalition in favor of the coup. [state, Christianity, governance, geography, secular, Honduras]

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The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas

Girard

2022

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“…Familiar geopolitical alliances have also hardened since the rebellion. Many opposition actors allied with the Trump administration, which levied sanctions against state actors and their associates, and have used strident anticommunist rhetoric to condemn the Ortega‐Murillo government (Goett 2019). Marina Sitrin writes that moments of crisis can generate solidarity and new social relationships as diverse groups mobilize to confront state power.…”

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“…Government repression of pensioner and student protests against the cuts on April 18 sparked demonstrations throughout the country. Participants called themselves autoconvocadas/os , or the self‐organized, to emphasize the independent, spontaneous, and nonhierarchal nature of their protests (Goett 2019, 5). The state responded with violence, killing dozens of protestors and injuring and detaining hundreds (IACHR 2018a, 15–17).…”

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¡Matria libre y vivir!: Youth Activism and Nicaragua's 2018 Insurrection

Aragón¹,

Goett

2020

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This article examines how youth subjectivity shaped Nicaragua's 2018 civic insurrection. A generation born after the end of the Sandinista Revolution in 1990 led the uprising, with the support of a broad sector of society. Once cast as apolitical and self‐involved, young protestors built insurgent spaces of democratic participation that challenged national political culture and the authoritarian social relations that it produces. Focusing on the university student movement, the authors examine how youth life and youth death at the hands of the state became powerful symbols of resistance. Some activists, particularly young women, even reimagined the nation as a space of self‐ and mutual care rooted in feminist, ecological, and decolonial consciousness. This ethic of life critiques the heroic martyrdom of the revolutionary past and the militarism, extractivism, and heteropatriarchy of the contemporary state.

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Economic and media war against socialist societies: The case of US–Cuban relations

Ginsburg

2023

IJCS

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This article examines the US’s use of sanctions or unilateral coercive measures (economic war) and the US’s support for propaganda communicated through its own organised mass media and the supposedly “independent,” corporate mass media as well as through social media to instigate anti-government sentiment and action (media war). The US’s economic war against Cuba began soon after Cuba’s 1959 revolution, although the US’s hostile actions as well as desires and efforts to shape Cuban society go back to the 19th century. This economic war has had tremendous negative impact on Cuba’s economy and the daily life of Cubans. In terms of the media war, this article focuses on how propaganda distributed through mass, corporate media as well as social media, often paid for by the US government, was directed at misleading Cubans and others, including those in the US, about the situation in Cuba. Such distortions were designed to provoke alienation and anti-government action by Cubans in general and, in more recent years, particular subgroups of artists, musicians, Afro-Cubans, and youth. And while some successes can be noted (specifically the sparking and broadcasting of protests on 11 July 2021), more generally the media war has failed in its goal of regime change. The non-event of 15 November 2021 is a clear example of this.

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Nicaragua: Sanctions in Three Acts

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The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas

The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas

¡Matria libre y vivir!: Youth Activism and Nicaragua's 2018 Insurrection

Economic and media war against socialist societies: The case of US–Cuban relations

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