Experts use the word “recession” for “a state of decrease in economic activity over a period of time,” but for the Nicaraguans that suffer its effects, it’s nothing less than a disaster that depresses their businesses, cuts their income and puts the welfare of their families at risk.
Read MoreThe State-controlled company BioCubaFarma announced Wednesday that it was creating the first Cuban-US biotech company, with US Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, which will research and develop new medicines and therapies to treat cancer.
Read MoreFor this 7-day forecast period sunny and warm days are expected, with isolated showers in the afternoons associated with the daytime heating. The high temperatures will range between 31 and 32° C (88 and 90 F), while the lows between 25 and 26° C (77 and 79 F).
Read MoreThe Chamorro Barrios family informs the public that our beloved mother and former president of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, suffered a stroke at dawn on Monday, October first. She is in the intensive care ward of the Vivan Pellas Hospital in Managua.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega decided to skip the UN General Assembly in New York but sent his work horse foreign minister, Denis Moncada, to give his version of recent events in Nicaragua, blaming the United States and terrorists disguised as peaceful protestors for the 5+ months of unrest in the Central American country.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s police detained today the documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, Carl David Goette-Luciak, who covers the protests in Nicaragua. Threats against Goette, of US and Austrian citizenship, were reported here in recent days.
Read MoreAfter repressing, murdering, persecuting and imprisoning hundreds of citizens, the Ortega regime intends to silence the civic protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, through a police order that threatens to prosecute individuals and organizations that call any demonstration of civic protest, which are now declared “illegal”.
Read MoreThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the IACHR, expressed its concern after the Sandinista police in Nicaragua described as illegal all marches carried out against the government of Daniel Ortega, responsible for the deaths of more than 320 Nicaraguans and hundreds of political prisoners since April.
Read MoreNicaraguan authorities should investigate a targeted online harassment campaign against freelance journalist Carl David Goette-Luciak, find those responsible, and ensure his safety, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). However, the question is will they investigate themselves?
Read MoreUniversity student Elsa Valle, released today after 75 days in prison for protesting against the government of Daniel Ortega, denounced that the detainees suffer psychological abuse and subsist in unhealthy conditions with a poor diet. She also said she would continue to be part of the struggle for a free Nicaragua.
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