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Nicaragua: “There can be no negotiated solution with Ortega”

Moises Hassan believes the dictator wants a negotiation that will allow him to preserve his wealth, impunity and power.

A dramatic call to break the silence and end the cruel prison conditions imposed by the regime of Daniel Ortega.

They haven’t been charged or presented before a judge, nor have they been allowed any communication with their lawyers or families.

Ortega’s order “disrupts daily life,” says expatriated sociologist Maria Teresa Blandon. HRW: “Nicaragua is not Ortega’s private property.”

“People don’t come to work, they leave the country without quitting, because you never know what could happen to you,” one declares.

In July, the regime had already denied entry to the now former rector of the UCA, Jesuit priest Jose Alberto Idiaquez Guevara

The Government verbally notified the diplomat of her non grata status, for alleged “interference with national sovereignty”.

The EU reiterated its “urgent” call to the Nicaraguan authorities to release all the political prisoners “immediately and unconditionally”.

Carmen Aristegui says the measure seeks to “silence, censor and diminish Nicaraguans’ possibilities of accessing information.”

The dictatorship proceeds judicially, without specifying the charges, against three priests, a deacon, two seminarians and a cameraman.