Regardless of all the pressures, attacks, threats and blackmail, independent journalism will survive, because it is providing the kind of information demanded by the population in the worst crisis of the Ortega dictatorship: truthfulness, verifying different sources and professionalism.

In my 34 years of life I never needed the phrase “Free Country or Death” to protest against a dictatorship. I never imagined that I had to mourn the death of my people fallen in combat; and much less that I had to ask a stranger to let me hide in his house while fleeing from the riot police.

Ever since the crisis began in Nicaragua, a new wave of immigrants fleeing to Costa Rica in order to survive has begun. They go not only to look for work, study opportunities or healthcare. They didn’t plan their journey to improve the quality of their lives, but as the only way to remain alive. These are some Nicaraguans’ stories…

The invasion of private property in both cities and the countryside, ordered by the ruling FSLN party headed by Daniel Ortega, has hardened the difficulties faced by the real estate industry, whose activity is very close to zero, since the national crisis began in April.

Alejandra Paz Huete is 18 years old and has infinite curiosity. In January of this year she decided to learn how to knit, but she would do it self-taught. She began searching for tutorials in YouTube after seeing a picture of an embroidery in Instagram.

On July 16th, after ninety days of a brutal and systematic repression against the “self-convoked” citizen protest—which has generated the most serious crisis of governability suffered by Nicaragua in recent decades—, Daniel Ortega’s regime approved a new Prevention of Money Laundering Law, also known as “Ortega’s Anti-Terrorism Law”.