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Mother of a Nicaraguan Political Prisoner also Arrested

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.

In the La Esperanza jail, Jiron shares a cell with human rights defender Evelyn Pinto, one of the elderly political prisoners.

“We hear a lot about migration crises, but in reality, it is the migrants who are often truly in crisis,” notes UN Commissioner Volker Türk.

Priests, devotees and lawyers are outraged after the Ortega’s government decision to send Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez, to trial.

The eight priests and assistants and Monsignor Rolando Alvarez are all accused of the bogus crimes of conspiracy & propagation of fake news.