Oh Ceres, hear our prayers, those of us who can’t cultivate wheat, we who need to look out at the horizon and wait for a boat to bring it to us from lands where it grows happily and golden! Ceres, our rice isn’t enough to feed the population, we have forgotten the technique of grating yucca, children don’t know what cassava bread is, both in the countryside and cities.
Read MoreThe journalist and director of “Confidencial” and the “Esta Semana” TV program, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, reacted to the assault and illegal takeover of his offices, by saying that all Nicaraguans are exposed to the dictatorship fabricating charges to censor them or turn them into political prisoners. However, he maintained that even without space for a newsroom, the media outlets he directs will continue reporting.
Read MoreIn a major victory for homophobes in Cuba, the National Assembly said Tuesday that language opening the way to the legalization of same-sex marriage will be removed from the draft of the country’s new constitution, under the excuse of “respecting all opinions.”
Read MoreIn the style of common criminals, Nicaraguan Police agents waited until the loneliness of the late night and early morning to assault with brute force the headquarters of several non-profit NGOs, known for pointing out, denouncing and criticizing the abuses of the Ortega regime. Earlier last week, the same NGOs had their legal status revocked by the National Assembly.
Read MoreOn December 6th, Cuba’s self-employed workers woke up to news that could mark many of their personal and professional lives in the future: several of the 20 legal provisions that refined the Self-Employment Law, which came into effect on December 7th, had been modified by the Council of Ministers.
Read MoreLess than 24 hours after the violent assault and looting of the newsrooms of the communication media outlets Confidencial and Esta Semana, the Ortega Police have occupied the facilities, ordering the removal of the security guards and installing half a dozen armed policemen inside the building, which was still disorderly and destroyed after the first attack.
Read MoreSome 400 business leaders met on Wednesday at the headquarters of INCAE in Managua to emphasize that the country continues on a steady course to a debacle, if a political agreement is not reached soon that allows the recovery of governability to then pass on to see how to resolve the economy.
Read MoreOn a night that recalled the style of the Nazi attacks known as “The Night of the Broken Glass” of 1938, the Nicaraguan Police assaulted and looted in simultaneous raids on numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to which the Parliament had canceled their legal operating permits in recent days.
Read MoreThe cancellation of the legal non-profit status for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) on Wednesday, December 12 took the members of that organization by surprise. Those who were at the organization’s head offices turned on the live broadcast of the legislative session to follow the discussion in Parliament.
Read MoreFaced with the worsening political, social and economic crisis, the private sector demanded on Wednesday that Daniel Ortega accept dialogue to promote political reforms, including to convene fair and transparent early elections with a new Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). “Without a political agreement, there is no solution to the (national) crisis,” stated the country’s top business leaders.
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