Nicaragua strips universities’ legal status in new attack on dissent

Nicaragua’s authoritarian government has stripped several universities of their permission to operate

Tamara Taraciuk Broner, the acting Americas director at [Human Rights Watch], said the takeover of the private universities signaled an effort to extinguish remaining opposition to the government.

“They are shutting us down because in 2018 we took the side of the students,” said Adrián Meza, rector of the [Paulo Freire University].

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/03/nicaragua-ortega-closes-universities/

The Best Anarchist, Communist, & Socialist Books

#73: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire

http://www.listmuse.com/best-anarchist-communist-socialist-books.php

UCLA Paulo Freire Institute

The Paulo Freire Institute seeks to gather scholars and critics of Freire’s work in permanent dialogue to foster the advancement of new theories and concrete interventions in the real world.

https://www.pfi.seis.ucla.edu/about/

Marxism, Existentialism, and Freire

From the discussion of humanization in the previous chapter, we proceed to an analysis of Marxist and existentialist influence on Freire’s ideas, pedagogy, and revolutionary spirit. In both Marx and Freire’s work a relationship exists between materialist dialectics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Freire adopted Marx’s analysis of contradictory social relations and the idea formed the basis of his moral outrage with capitalism’s inequities.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-90-481-9100-0_4

Freire expressed his ideology as equal parts Jesus Christ and Karl Marx. He rejected both a magical Christianity of divine intervention, which led to passivity on the part of the poor, and a theology of social service, which sought only to alleviate the suffering of the poor.

Freire was raised a Catholic. In college he participated in Catholic Action

left wing politics

close ties to the socialist government of João Goulart

he maintained close ties with many Catholic clergy, particularly those associated with Liberation Theology

https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/paulo-freire

Karl Marx and Liberation Theology: Dialectical Materialism and Christian Spirituality In, Against,

and Beyond Contemporary Capitalism

The Latin American tradition of liberation theology, which McLaren studied through decades of work in countries from Mexico to Venezuela and through works of key historical figures such as Paulo Freire … Hugo Chávez, and others.

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=education_articles

Spanish Jesuit's Best Seller Hails Marx and Attacks Rome

According to the Jesuit, “Acceptance of the Marxist analysis of history, with its elements regarding the historical meaning of class struggle and the necessary overthrow of private ownership of the means of production, is not in any way opposed to faith and to the Gospels.”

Jan. 12, 1973

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/12/archives/a-spanish-jesuits-best-seller-hails-marx-and-attacks-rome-long.html

[Human Rights Watch] publishes hundreds of reports on violations of international human rights norms in an effort to draw attention to abuses and pressure governments to reform. In recent years, the organization has been the subject of a number of controversies regarding its association with polarizing philanthropist George Soros

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Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships Initiative: received $100 million from Open Society Foundations.

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