Pressure and threats emanating from Nicaragua’s Bank Regulatory Board (Superintendencia) were rejected outright by business owners, producers and lawyers. Banks warn that government “interference” could “generate widespread distrust in the financial system.”
Read MoreFor Janier Garcia, the protests that began in Nicaragua on April 18 have brought him new experiences. It was the first time he ever saw a mob raining blows on people in Managua. He had left Diriamba with some friends to protest against the Social Security reforms, but he never imagined…
Read MoreIn the early hours of Wednesday, July 4th, a group of hooded men set fire to the house of Yubrank Suazo’s parents in Masaya, also destroying the family’s Ramiro Suazo and Son hammock factory. Yubrank is a leader of the 19th of April Movement in Masaya.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan revolt to oust President Daniel Ortega from office began over two and a half months ago. University students initiated the “civic revolution,” called the April 19th Movement, but campesinos, civil society and several business organizations soon joined in, as well as feminist groups, the LGBQI community, and the indigenous and Afro-descendants peoples.
Read MoreNicolas Casanas brought his children and several descendants together to take charge of the farm work. He applied a simple division of duties and assigned each one specific responsibilities. None of them earn money.
Read MoreThe victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico meant a slam to the status quo and a turn, partly of unknown dimension, to the left in the region’s second largest economy. Initial convincing results from the National Electoral Institute granted Lopez Obrador 52.7 percent of the vote.
Read MoreIn June 2018, the list of available essential medicines in Cuba was short by 45 drugs, according to Public Health authorities. However official sources say that shortages today aren’t as serious as they were last year,
Read MoreThe organized invasion of private properties, both urban areas and rural farms is interpreted by lawyers and those affected as a clear retaliation against private business people for breaking the model of dialogue that the Private Enterprise Council (Cosep) had maintained with the Ortega government for the last decade.
Read MoreAriel Ruiz Urquiola has a scientific background and chose to become a farmer. He lived and worked in Vinales, Pinar del Rio, on a farm which was given to him by the Cuban State under lease at no charge. However, today, this PhD in Biological Sciences finds himself in prison.
Read MoreThe clamor in the streets exerts pressure on the National Dialogue and on the Civic Alliance which is trying to point the way to a democratic way out of the crisis in Nicaragua. Meanwhile, President Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo have unleashed widespread paramilitary violence to try and squash the protests.
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