Brazil Awaits a Highly Polarized Runoff Election on Sunday
Polls continue to favor former president Lula da Silva, but the gap between him and the current President is still very narrow.
Interviews
Nicaragua: Judges and Prosecutors Are Ortega’s Firing Squad
Persecuted political activist Dulce Porras laments the uncertainty her family suffers over the imprisonment of one of her brothers.
Guatemalan journalist Zamora’s son on his father’s arrest
When Guatemalan police arrested José Rubén Zamora in July 2022, it marked the latest salvo in a decades-long campaign of harassment…
Many Nicaraguans in the Judicial Branch are Fed Up & Worried
A public employee with over ten years of service speaks with Confidencial. “This is getting ugly,” his colleagues murmur.”
Why Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran Are Not Slowing Down
Protesters are continuing to demand justice for Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman who died in the hands of the so-called morality police.
Knife Sharpeners in Cuba: Still a Living Tradition
When developed countries create machines to substitute people in different job roles, old professions are rescued in Cuba to survive.
“Public Employees’ Real Support for the Regime is Minimal”
“We’re hostages,” says “Alicia”, a Nicaraguan state employee with twenty years of service, now working at an upper management level.
Nicaragua: “There can be no negotiated solution with Ortega”
Moises Hassan believes the dictator wants a negotiation that will allow him to preserve his wealth, impunity and power.
Censoring CNN: “Latest Attack on Press Freedom in Nicaragua”
Carmen Aristegui says the measure seeks to “silence, censor and diminish Nicaraguans’ possibilities of accessing information.”
Ortega Orders the Kidnapping of Dissidents’ Relatives
The exiled human rights advocate calls the Nicaraguan regime’s use of this new repressive method “unprecedented”.