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Mistreatment of Workers in Nicaragua’s Free Trade Zones

The government is compelled to ensure a decent wage, job security, hygiene, and safety, but MITRAB and unions look the other way.

Human rights defender warns that detention of relatives of opponents is “a new pattern of repression” of the Ortega-Murillo regime.

As in the USSR’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Putin’s war against Ukraine will be a defining moment of anti-imperialism

The complaint filed is based on international reports documenting the political persecution exercised by these 3 leaders in their countries.

Police took Ubilla from her home early on January 11. Hours later, three other political opponents were also taken into custody.

Adolfo Marenco is accused of trying to flee the country and of refusing to return to “work” with the dictatorship’s inner circle.

The recent initiative, “Puentes por los Estudiantes de Nicaragua” (Bridges for Nicaraguan students) aims at opening new horizons.

New unions cannot be formed, and those that already exist cannot – or do not want to – protect workers’ rights.

“They’re afraid that we’ll all leave, and reveal how fed-up Nicaragua’s public employees are,” one of them reflects.

Applying costs nothing, and Nicaraguans with legal immigration status can be sponsors, even if they’re not relatives of the applicant.