Donald Trump issued an “Executive Order” against the Ortega government and his close associates, sanctioning Vice President and First Lady Rosario Murillo, and the national security advisor Nestor Moncada Lau. Afterwards, the US Senate unanimously approved the legislation known such as “Magnistsky Nica Law,” which is designed to punish Daniel Ortega’s government.
Read MoreEven though Decree 349 was ushered in like many things are in the Official Gazette, it has created intense debates in different spaces for being a document that seeks to regulate the country’s cultural policy in an explicit way. Since November 20th 2018, a group of artists and creators have been sending a dossier around which summarizes their actions to hold a public debate about the new law and the messages that have been sent to the country’s main authorities.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s regime has just raised the level of their harassment against feminist movements, in a day of abuses that culminated on Monday with the expulsion from the country of feminist leader Ana Quiros.
Read MoreThe regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo has increased the political persecution against the peasant movement, which since four years before the social upheaval of last April 18th, had challenge it with at least a hundred demonstrations against the concession of the interoceanic channel.
Read MoreThe 20 jury members of the 10th Havana Times Photo Contest have begun going over the finalist pictures to pick the winners and special mentions for this year. Of the 962 photos from 109 participants that we started with, there are now 60 pictures in the finals with 30 photographers having at least one photo still in the competition. (61 photos)
Read MoreA month after a well-promoted experiment with Havana’s collective taxis has kicked off, not a lot has been said about it or about its results to date. Or about how private taxi drivers have welcomed it. Much less the opinions of the public who use the service.
Read MoreThe police ban to prevent the march organized by feminist movements and the Blue and White National Unity on Sunday, November 25th, when the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is commemorated, reaffirms the “police state” imposed by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo since the month of September…
Read More“Tell me, what’s the discussion here?” a young man was shouting and gesturing, while catching the attention of people on the corner of Zanja and Galiano streets. It looked like things were going to get ugly from the tone of his voice, when someone else suddenly responded: “I’m just saying what people are saying out on the street, what they are discussing.”
Read MoreTensions are high at the migrant camp at the Benito Juarez sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico. As the caravan numbers have swelled to over 5,000, and the mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis, the mood in the camp has changed dramatically. There is a deep sense by those observing the situation that this is a powder keg. (22 photos)
Read MoreThe moments that have marked the civic protests that began since April will remain immortalized in the Memory Lane and within the Nicaragua and Central America History Institute (IHNCA in Spanish), of the Central American University (UCA). They are faithful witnesses of the brutal repression perpetrated starting seven months ago by the Government of Daniel Ortega.
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