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Jared Genser: “Ortega Will Have to Release the Political Prisoners”

International lawyer: as his options narrow, Ortega will have to decide between keeping them in jail, or staying in power.

The Oxfam director for Latin America and the Caribbean, affirmed that the Interior Ministry refused to receive “the papers they asked for”

Arrested in Bejucal after the July 11th protests, Mario Garcia learned what torture, faith, compassion, forgiveness and crying was in prison.

For children, “love is the most important thing, being attentive to them and them feeling like they have some support.”

Nicaragua offers Russia what it “hasn’t managed to consolidate a large presence in Latin America, beyond long-time allies Cuba and Venezuela.”

Nicaragua first saw Cristian Tinoco’s face on the night of June 13, when her video begging for help began circulating through social media.

“Our position, from the opposition, should be to tell the Ortega-Murillo regime we are not willing to play their game,” said Berta Valle

Peraza explained that with several candidates in jail none of the “enabling conditions” exist to hold free elections in Nicaragua.

Moises Hassan: “Imprisoning people who had a certain degree of projection in the struggle against Somoza is utterly insane.”

The former political prisoner was forced to flee the intensified siege, the persecution and the imminent threat of being imprisoned again.