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About John Perry

John Perry is a COHA Senior Research Fellow and  writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua.
  • Source: "Nicaragua: Guarimbas no 'carburan,'" Cuba, Isla Mía blog.

    How “peaceful protests” in Nicaragua became an attempted coup

    John Perry and Daniel Kovalik

    Five years ago, Nicaragua was subject to a violent insurrection that lasted from April through July, 2018. In the second of four articles, we look at how initial support for the coup relied on widespread use of social media.

  • Ortega with Maduro recently

    Five years ago in Nicaragua: a coup attempt begins

    Daniel Kovalik and John Perry

    In the first few months of 2018, Nicaragua hardly appeared to be a strong candidate for an attempted coup. Daniel Ortega’s government had an 80 per cent approval rating in a poll a few months earlier.

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  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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    Harry Magdoff ON THE FEDERATION OF ECONOMIC COMMUNES: ENGELS AND DÜHRING

    Society is made up of parts that work together, sometimes more and sometimes less successfully, to produce its livelihood and reproduce itself.

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