The student, who turned 21 in exile, became an enemy of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, when during the first national dialogue, in May 2018, he demanded from Daniel Ortega that he surrender.
Read MoreDuring a brief interview broadcast on the internet news program Esta Noche, the US ambassador to the OAS stated that Nicaraguans have pointed to those responsible for the human rights violations. “Also, something that many of us hadn’t heard before: the great complicity of the military in these violations.”
Read MoreZoilamerica Ortega Murillo looked out of the window on the morning of this September 30, and saw something disturbing outside her home in San Jose, Costa Rica: an old Suzuki jeep with two Nicaraguan flags was blocking the parking area. Inside the car was an older man wearing military camouflage clothing.
Read MoreDonald Trump is the fourth president in US history to face impeachment proceedings, and the quickly escalating scandal has brought renewed interest to impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and, most famously, Richard Nixon.
Read MoreEdward Snowden talks about his decision to leak documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras rather than WikiLeaks, and the issues with the U.S. government’s response to whistleblower disclosures.
Read MoreThe closure of Nicaragua’s El Nuevo Diario newspaper alarmed the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). “We are really shocked,” says Edison Lanza.
Read MoreWe speak to journalist Sharon Lerner about how corporations in the United States are refusing to turn to more sustainable materials, with most of the country’s plastic waste ending up in landfills or scattered around the world.
Read MoreAlong with Lucia Pineda Ubau, the channel’s news director, they were submitted to a political trial accused of alleged crimes of “incitement to hatred”, “conspiring” and “terrorism.” “I was imprisoned for doing journalism, not for politics,” claims Mora.
Read MoreA number of indigenous leaders from Brazil traveled to New York to protest Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to open the Amazon rainforest for agribusiness, logging and mining.
Read MoreToday is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit.
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