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Nicaragua Closer to Suspension from the OAS

Resolution of OAS Foreign Ministers initiates application of Article 20 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

The Jalapa Women’s Association was stripped of its legal status in August. Now, Ortega confiscated their offices and women’s shelter.

The only thing known about the crime the young dissenter is accused of, is that her supposed victims are the Nicaraguan State and society.

They listened to the denunciations of journalist Carlos F. Chamorro, and heard the pain of exile in the voice of singer Katia Cardenal…

Costa Rica, Chile, the US, & the European Union did the right thing not recognizing these elections as legitimate. However, it isn’t enough.

Ortega was congratulated by countries that share the same authoritarian line of his regime such as Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and North Korea.

The vulnerability of the population could be used to stop/mitigate international actions that could have a devastating effect on the regime.

Twenty-five countries, a majority, demanded freedom for Ortega’s political prisoners and to begin application of the Democratic Charter.

Wang Jing congratulated Ortega and Murillo for their reelection and affirmed his “faith in the canal project” he once promised to build.

Lawyer Santos Sebastian Flores Castillo died in the cells of the Modelo prison in Tipitapa, where he had been held since June 17, 2013.