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 peace media bias

While Nicaragua returns to peace, media and international NGOs conjure epidemic of violence with dubious reporting

John Perry·February 19, 2020

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

Counting deaths for dollars: The rise and fall of Nicaragua’s ‘human rights’ organizations

John Perry·August 25, 2019

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

A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media’s regime-change deceptions are still unraveling

John Perry·July 15, 2019

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