Commander Daniel Ortega closed the doors Friday to the national dialogue with the Civic Alliance, while reiterating that he is not willing to hold early elections. Instead, the Sandinista strongman emphasized that he will be stay in power at least until after the November 2021 elections, in defiance of the sanctions and the international community.
Read MoreCartoonist Pedro Molina: “The humor that makes the most sense is that which puts the powerful in their place. I’m not speaking only of politicians, because many times the real power doesn’t lie only with them… I’m not interested in humor that mocks the poor or the disgraced, I’m interested in humor that can bring the powerful down to earth.”
Read MoreIt isn’t luxurious nor comfortable. It’s not even a large space where lots of customers can come. Jugolandia is the entrance and hallway to a house located in the Playa municipality. It is the fruit of a desire to set up a profitable business, as well as to contribute to improving and strengthening customers’ health…
Read MoreThe last thing that the young opposition activist Bryan Murillo did on Tuesday night, just hours before police officers shot and killed him in his mother’s home in the Barrio Guadalupe of León, was to squeeze himself into a photo taken of his niece, Aylin Del Carmen…
Read MoreThe value of properties in Nicaragua has fallen between 20% and 30%, as a result of the crisis that has plagued the country for fifteen months, three experts from the legal, stock and financial sector told Confidencial.
Read MoreWhen the siblings turned themselves in to US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in mid-April, agents separated them. “Where are you taking him?” she asked. “He’s going to a better place than you,” she said an agent replied. But as we have found, Gloria’s brother, like other children in Border Patrol detention, certainly was not going to a good place.
Read MoreIt could have been just one more civil wedding, but instead the couple decided to call it “the vandal’s wedding” and to have a ceremony that reflected the struggle for a free Nicaragua.
Read MoreBia Ferreira is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and activist hailing from Minas Gerais, Brazil. She was born into an evangelical family and followed her mother’s footsteps (her mother was a singer, choir conductor and pianist), entering the world of music at the tender age of 3 when she began studying piano.
Read MoreThere were 17 hours of continuous gunfire, as witnessed by neighbors who recorded the sounds of the attack on their cell phones. That Friday, July 13, 2018, the Ortega Murillo regime sent their paramilitaries to mount a merciless attack on the students who were peacefully occupying the Nicaraguan National Autonomous University (UNAN).
Read MoreThe priests have been attacked and threatened, and at least two have chosen to go into exile. The churches have been profaned, damaged and looted. The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reviewed the incidents and counted at least 30 separate attacks on the Catholic Church over the last year.
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