The recent resolution of the Organization of American States (OAS), which gives the government of Daniel Ortega a 75-day period to address Nicaragua’s sociopolitical crisis, “was a resounding success” and shows that for Ortega “the diplomatic options are closing,” said Juan Sebastian Chamorro, representative of the Civic Alliance.
Read MoreIn Nicaragua, three women have been outstanding defenders of the land: Dolene Miller, Elba Rivera and Francisca Ramirez. They’ve put themselves in the forefront of defending the land owned by farmers, Afro-Nicaraguans and indigenous peoples. These are their stories:
Read MorePaolo Abrao lamented the persistence of “the atmosphere of repression and intimidation” in Nicaragua and said that the release of political prisoners was “just a first step” in the agenda necessary for the reconstruction of the country’s freedoms: the right to mobilize, to meeting, freedom of expression and press…
Read MorePrior to April 18, 2018, she was “a student, a daughter, working full time and attending the university at night. I was just one more student and citizen.” Like almost all of us. When the April Rebellion broke out, she found it impossible not to get involved.
Read MoreJose 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….
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