Rural leader Medardo Mairena, released on June 11, along with 55 other political prisoners, denounced the torture he lived in custody in the first press conference he gave after being released. He also said he will continue in the struggle until there is democracy and the rule of law in Nicaragua.
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Merchant Irlanda Jerez spent 329 days as a prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo regime. During that time, she was interrogated nude, beaten, tortured and groped by an official of the La Esperanza prison. She was released on Tuesday, June 11, but she was unable to return to her home in Managua because hours previously it had been sacked and occupied by the Ortega-allied paramilitary.
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If it weren’t for the weight they’ve both lost it would be difficult to believe that Miguel Mora and Lucia Pineda Ubau have spent 172 days of solitary confinement in the maximum security cells of the Ortega-Murillo regime. The journalists are physically marked, but their spirits remain intact.
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While much of Nicaragua was jubilantly following the release of political prisoners on Tuesday, the United States Congress held a public hearing that addressed the national crisis, focused on the actions that country could take regarding the Ortega-Murillo regime…
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In 1979, a young Carlos Mejia Godoy sang for a people’s armed revolution that was trying to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship. After a 50-year artistic career and 40 years of a revolutionary epic, the singer and composer is in exile for the second time. Now he is singing for a civic rebellion led by students and mothers seeking justice.
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“God helps those who help themselves”, is the title of a collection of proverbs that Carlos Monsivais published as a book. The Ortega government has brought to light their own version of helping yourself, passed on Saturday, June 8th, in the form of a new parliamentary initiative: the amnesty law.
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Daniel Ortega’s ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) has begun to insinuate very subtlety to its territorial structures that they must be prepared for an eventual advance of elections. And, they even give a date: 2020.
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With the release of 56 political prisoners on Tuesday morning, among them the main leaders of the civic protests and emblematic figures of the April Rebellion, there are still some 86 political prisoners in the jails of the Ortega dictatorship, Civic Alliance’s spokesperson, Jose Pallais, told Confidencial.
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The president of the Inter American Press Association, Maria Elvira Dominguez, celebrated that journalists Lucia Pineda and Miguel Mora, were released Tuesday, after six months of being kidnapped by the Ortega dictatorship. However Domingues said…
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The self-amnesty decreed by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, with the rubber stamp of the National Assembly, cannot be a “clean slate and a fresh start”, after the serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity committed by the regime, says the President of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), Vilma Nunez de Escorcia.
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