Liusba looks at the camera and, in the meantime, her girlfriend Lisset rubs her hand up and down her back, a somewhat affectionate and protective gesture. She says that her greatest happiness, as well as being pregnant, is that she has never seen her parents so happy, because this is definitely not expected from a lesbian couple.
Read MoreThe dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is set to launch a new “national defense policy” for 2019, which includes increasing the recruitment of more police officers and cutting 30% of the payroll of different ministries of the State and autonomous entities, according to a working document attributed to Vice President Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan duo Nina and Sebastian recently debuted their musical homage “Navidad sin vos” [Xmas without you] dedicated to all those killed during the protests that began in April against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreLevis Artola, 21, only one and a half meters tall, law student and the “foreign minister” of the occupation at the UNAN Managua university, took the microphone firmly and spoke without hesitation to the excited mass of students in front of the Central American University…
Read MoreWhen Yubrank Suazo crossed the threshold of his house around 10 pm on April 18, his father, Wilfredo Suazo, discovered that nothing he could say to his son would make him change his mind. By that time, the Sandinista mobs had already beaten up the university students that had protested the night before in Managua, and hours previously had also assaulted some elderly people who had gone out to march in Leon.
Read MoreThe state-owned chain of hard-currency stores that sells some food items and drinks freely to the population, revealed its acute shortages on Christmas eve, while pork sellers (the only option on the private market) were charging up to 5 USD per kilogram. Only alcoholic drinks were widely available in both regular pesos and hard currency CUCs.
Read MoreTwelve hours after he was kidnapped and the sudden closure of his television channel, the Director of “100% Noticias”, Miguel Mora, was presented by the National Police in a Managua courtroom. He is facing an “express” legal process in which he is accused of “fomenting hate and violence,” actions that are “framed in the penal category of: provocation, proposition and conspiracy to commit terrorist’s acts.”
Read MoreThe Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo committed “crimes against humanity” during the repression of the civic protests, says the final report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which at the same time recommends investigating President Ortega and the Directors, Deputy Directors and department chiefs of the National Police, as well as other officials, for their responsibility in the acts of violence.
Read More“You know you’re lying,” Vilma Nunez told the National Police the day after they accused her and Gonzalo Carrion, legal advisor for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), of manipulating and bribing the survivors of the fire that killed six members of a family in a Managua neighborhood.
Read MoreNicaraguan Police, under the orders of commander Daniel Ortega, arrived Friday night at the 100% Noticias TV facilities in Managua, broke in, destroyed the equipment and kidnapped the directors Miguel Mora and Veronica Chávez, as well as the press chief, Lucia Pineda.
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