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Authoritarianism Assaults Latin America’s Press Freedom

Carlos Fernando Chamorro urges journalists to keep Nicaragua’s sociopolitical crisis on the international agenda.

Today’s featured artist is Nubya Garcia from the UK with the Colombian band La Perla and the song “La Cumbia Me Esta Llamando” (2020).

Vice President and government spokesperson Rosario Murillo echoes Foreign Minister Denis Moncada’s rant against “colonialist perversion”

Foreign Minister-designate confirms intention to resume relations with Nicaragua and to appoint an ambassador to the country.

Minutes after the announcement, the National Police surrounded the OAS offices and dismantled its symbols.

“Achieving unity in action will bring us closer to the common goal,” says the Granada Declaration, the founding document of the alliance.

The pioneering Mexican human rights activist Rosario Ibarra has died at the age of 95. Her son was forcibly disappeared in 1975…

Since Venezuela began cracking down on independent media in 2007, most internet blockages have been conducted by CANTV, the state-run ISP

The law is similar to those existing in several Central American countries including Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua & Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador.

Indigenous leaders reject the Ortega-Murillo regime’s policy of forced “cohabiting” with the invading colonists.