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Student Leader Arbitrarily Jailed for 135 Days

The young feminist activist and student leader is in the prisons of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

“This is a space where children were living. You can see the blood on the floor. The world should be absolutely horrified.”

Franklin Virguez from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “Figures” in Caracas, Venezuela.

Yasenia Perez, a transplanted Cuban now residing in the Nicaraguan town of San Juan del Sur, rescues abandoned horses..

The uprising began on January 1, 1994, on the same day that NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, took effect.

Today’s featured band is Rawayana from Venezuela with the song “Disculpeme Usted” from the album “Cuando Los Acéfalos Predominan” (2021).

Silvio Fonseca, Miguel Mantica, Mykel Monterrey, Gerardo Rodriguez and Raul Zamora were abducted from their temples.

Alon-Lee Green: “We are here to say that the war and the way of wars has achieved nothing.”

Relations between Ortega & the Catholic Church are tense marked by the expulsion & jailing of priests, & prohibition of religious activities.

The dictator recalled the historic role of Hugo Torres, who died in February 2022 while a political prisoner of the regime.