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.
Read MoreAlejandra 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.
Read MoreOn 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”.
Read MoreIf something characterized them from the very beginning, it was their eagerness to approach people who don’t normally go to the theater. And boy, have they managed to do this! Kicking off with Rascacielos (their first play) in 2015, Jazz Vila Projects has put one hit on after another on stage.
Read MoreVenezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has designed a plan of economic adjustments that began today with a currency revaluation. The program also foresees gasoline prices, which have been the cheapest in the world until now, being increased to international rates in the coming weeks.
Read MoreMedardo Mairena is confined to “El Infiernillo” [“Little Hell”], a maximum security prison within the penitentiary known as El Modelo in Tipitapa, near the capital. Pedro Mena and Silvio Pineda are also in this hellhole, political prisoners of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreGerman journalist Sandra Weiss was detained and assaulted by armed land-invaders on August 10th, when she went to report on the situation at the “Chinandega Maracuya Company (Chimaco)” Project, owned by a Swiss Company and the Coen Group, located in Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Read MoreAretha Franklin, the young gospel star who became the “queen of soul”, passed away on Thursday in Detroit at the age of 76, leaving a void in the music world that will be filled with her vast discography, which ranges from the anthem “Respect” to “I Say a Little Prayer.”
Read MoreThe initial hearing in the trial of Medardo Mairena, Pedro Mena and Silvio Pineda, leaders of the Peasant Movement, accused of murdering four police officers—among other crimes—in Morrito, Rio San Juan, took place amid the rejection of thousands of Nicaraguans who marched in various cities to protest the illegal detentions and judicial process against opponents to the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreMeddling; terrorist actions; “distortion” in 1978, or “fake news” in 2018 – the allegations used by the Somoza regime are the same ones that Ortega is now using. That’s the comparison made by educator Carlos Tunnermann, also a member of the Group of Twelve during the struggle against Somoza.
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