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Max Cruz was illegally abducted in what was the paradise of Ometepe Island on October 8, 2018, along with his wife Marbi Salazar, and in front of his three underage children.

In a few days it will be the first anniversary of the civic struggle in Nicaragua. However, the “self-organized” Nicaraguans state that they’ve been mired in April ever since last year.

July 17, 1979: all eyes are on Managua. That day, dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle boarded a plane that would take him to Miami. It was the end of the Somoza dictatorship. Meanwhile, somewhere between the small cities of Ocotal and Esteli, David Solorzano, a scrawny adolescent of seventeen, already had ten months of combat under his belt…

The failure of the negotiations in Managua, given the lack of political will of the Ortega Murillo dictatorship, could accelerate international diplomatic sanctions, which until now are on standby in the face of expectations of the results of the political dialogue.

“Crac, crac, crac” sounded next to twenty-three-year-old Cristian Melendez’s right ear as he stood with a plastic bag over his head. At the same time, two Police investigators were hitting him to get him to open his legs. Moments later, an electric shock surged through his testicles and his whole body. “I wanted them to kill me to stop the pain,” he remembers thinking.

The deadline of the political negotiations set for April 3, ended in Managua without agreements on democratization and justice. The government of Daniel Ortega rejected moving up the 2021 elections and the investigation of the massacre perpetrated by the Police, paramilitaries and agents of the regime, preferring to leave the crimes in impunity.