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Ortega’s Electoral Council Says He Won with 75.92%

The Electoral Council announced that with 97.74% of the polling places reporting, Ortega and his wife had received 75.92% of the votes.

“Voting does not kill anyone. It doesn’t injure anyone. Voting does not call for terrorism,” says Ortega, justifying the 2018 massacre.

Today’s featured band is Timbalive from Miami, US, with the song “Conmigo no” from the album “Con la Musica Cubana No” (2013).

Daniel Ortega appears to have secured his victory in Sunday’s election after unleashing a months-long crackdown on his opposition.

Ligia Gómez, spokesperson for Urnas Abiertas, recalled that in the 2011 and 2016 elections abstentionism was 45% and 72%, respectively.

Carlyle MacDuff from Scotland took our photo of the day: “Gracias Fidel, Raul y Miguel por su generosidad” in Artemisa, Cuba.

International financial organizations should align themselves with human rights organizations & stop financing the dictatorship, experts say.

Today in London, just 2 days before the electoral farce in Nicaragua, protesters took to the streets in solidarity with the Nicaraguan people.

The NGO is the main independent research center on socio-economic poverty studies in Nicaragua. The government doesn’t like its findings.

Youth activists are in the streets outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe.