Jose Miguel Vivanco, HRW’s director for the Americas, is demanding that the US, Canada and democratic governments in Latin America “double-down on sanctions” against the Ortega government.
Read More“It is a very hard blow because for a person like me, who has given so much for what at one time was joy. In 1979 we said that we were entering freedom because we had just overthrown a military dictatorship. And, now, 40 years later I find out that history repeats itself…
Read MoreAmaya Coppens, a medical student from the UNAN Leon, was abducted on September 10, 2018, with a group of students while they were peacefully protesting. She was one of those released on June 11, 2019, 245 days later.
Read MoreThe executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), Pablo Abrao, knows first-hand the suffering of those who dared protest against Daniel Ortega’s regime. For that reason, the Amnesty Law that the regime prescribed for itself concerns him.
Read MoreA group of Olesia Munoz Pavon’s’ neighbors waited in vain to receive her at her home in Niquinohomo, Masaya. The political prisoner was released last Tuesday, but couldn’t go home because mobs of Ortega sympathizers were lying in wait…
Read MoreMerchant Irlanda Jerez spent 329 days as a prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo regime. During that time, she was interrogated nude, beaten and tortured. She was released on June 11, but she was unable to return to her home in Managua….
Read MoreIn 1979, a young Carlos Mejia Godoy sang for a people’s armed revolution that was trying to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship. Forty years later the singer and composer is in exile for the second time. Now he is singing for a civic rebellion…
Read MoreTalking about racism here is like opening Pandora’s box. Antonio Morales (45 years old), economist at a budget office, believes that in Cuba there are many racist displays, like in any other country, some of which are covered up in subtlety while others are completely stark.
Read MoreThe self-amnesty decreed by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, with the rubber stamp of the National Assembly, cannot be a “clean slate and a fresh start”, says the President of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), Vilma Nunez de Escorcia.
Read MoreThe United Nations special rapporteur on torture is warning that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from the effects of “psychological torture” due to his ongoing detention and threats of possible extradition to the United States.
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