Nicaragua Archives - Page 168 of 448

Nicaraguan Political Prisoner Hugo Torres Dies

In 1974, the former guerrilla risked his life in an operation to free other political prisoners, among them Ortega, who ordered his arrest.

Confiscating universities is not to “deprivatize” higher education, but to annul critical thinking and subdue the student movement.

In a closed-door trial on February 8, Mendoza was convicted of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and disseminating false news…

Students from the latest six universities closed and confiscated by the regime of Daniel Ortega have no idea what their future holds.

Meanwhile, Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric, has condemned human rights violations in Nicaragua on repeated occasions…

The Fabretto Foundation must stop attending more than 40 thousand children and adolescents after the annulment of its legal status.

“The totalitarianism in Nicaragua is beyond comparison with other situations in the region,” the Brazilian attorney affirmed.

Navas is one of the founders of the peasant movement that Ortega-Murillo have tried to destroy, forcing leaders into exile or imprisoning them

Outraged students demand the reinstatement of their universities’ legal status. A prominent academic warns of the loss of university autonomy.

With each step that Ortega and Murillo have taken to consolidate their power, they have dug themselves deeper into a hole…