John Perry is a writer based in Masaya, Nicaragua whose work has appeared in the Nation, the London Review of Books, and many other publications.

John Perry

Nicaragua rebuilds – five years after US-funded terror was defeated

John Perry·June 15, 2023

Five years after the violent coup attempt in Nicaragua, the country is celebrating its recovery – peace has...

John Perry·November 28, 2022

Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact...

John Perry·December 10, 2020

Liberal media outlets are aiding a US economic war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, calling for a boycott of...

John Perry·February 19, 2020

Media bias against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government is unremitting, and international NGOs are feeding it by misreporting a violent...

John Perry·August 25, 2019

In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan opposition “human rights” NGOs inflated the death toll during the 2018...

John Perry·July 15, 2019

Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua’s government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new...

John Perry·August 20, 2018

En Nicaragua, el golpe apoyado por EEUU fracasó, pero Mary Ellsberg y otros continúan intentando persuadir al resto...

John Perry·August 15, 2018

Mary Ellsberg’s latest is a collection of tropes and distortions with little connection to the current reality. A...