As Nicaragua slips deeper into violent chaos with the Ortega-Murillo government clinging to power amid massive protests, the US Embassy in Managua just closed its doors today, June 1st, reported 100% Nocitias.
Read MoreThe bishops worked all Wednesday night to issue a statement in which they affirm that “the National Dialogue cannot be resumed as long as the people of Nicaragua continue to be denied the right to demonstrate freely and continue to be repressed and killed.”
Read MoreThe days will be slightly warm, with clouds from the end of the morning, and some chance of rain and isolated storms. The maximum temperatures will range between 29 and 30° C (84 and 86 F), while the lows will be between 23 and 24° C (73 and 75 F).
Read MoreThese days in Cuba have reminded me of that passage where Garcia Marquez said that in Macondo it rained so much that the fish were in the air. Almost 20 days without seeing the sun, something very unheard of these days, has kept Havana sleepy.
Read MoreCuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in Caracas today to meet his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, on his first official trip abroad since he assumed the presidency in mid-April. Maduro is the Cuban government’s top political and economic ally.
Read MoreSeveral days ago, the Mothers’ April 19th Movement, parents of dozens of murdered youths, called for a march in Managua on Mothers Day, Wednesday, May 30th, demanding justice and an end to the killing.
Read MoreThe government of Nicaragua and an alliance of students, business people and civil society agreed Monday to resume the dialogue suspended last week with a view to resolving the serious crisis in the country, reported the Episcopal Conference, mediator in the process.
Read MoreAmnesty International and human rights activist Bianca Jagger, denounced the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua for an attack Monday by “Sandinista mobs” against a university in the capital, and urged him to “stop the murders” in the country.
Read MoreA group of unknown gunmen attacked the facilities of the University of Engineering (UNI) in the Nicaraguan capital today, after students barricaded themselves inside. During the assault, another group set fire to the facilities of the nearby official radio station “Nueva Radio Ya.”
Read MoreA joint commission, created in Nicaragua to try and unblock the dialogue between the government and the opposition Civic Alliance and resolve the acute crisis that is shaking the country, will meet for the first time on Monday, announced today the mediation commission formed by the Catholic Episcopal Conference.
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