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The Effects of Solitary on Nicaragua’s Political Prisoners

They’re not externally visible, but there are physical changes in the brain, & the body decays, and decays rapidly, so we can identify that.

“They’re punishing the environmental and academic organizations, like the Nicaraguan Academy of Sciences, that also opposed the megaprojects”

Police came looking for Javier Alberto Alvarez, but upon not finding him at home took his wife and daughter to the “El Chipote” jail.

Dulce Porras, exiled activist from the Unamos party, denounced the detention of her brother, although he’s never been involved in politics.

An ID card marked “asylum seeker” conveys legal immigration status, but doesn’t guarantee those people an adequate integration into society.

Blandon said it is regrettable that in Nicaragua “we live under a dictatorship” which assumes the “right to decide who can live in Nicaragua.

As happens in poetry, music and literature, Luis Enrique Mejia turns two words into one: “nicamigrante,” to give it greater rhythm & assertion.

Democracy has died in Nicaragua. But if there’s one thing we know about Nicaraguans, it’s that they never let themselves be cowed.

The reasons the Constitutional Convention lost people’s trust, the meaning of this political defeat for President Boric, and what’s next?

By canceling these 100 organizations, the regime raises to 1,706 the non profits stripped of their legal status so far in 2022 alone.