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Time Magazine & Ortega’s Political Prisoners in Nicaragua

The creator of the popular TV series Riverdale, was given space on Time Magazine to plead the case of his imprisoned father.

Legendary Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Luis Mejia Godoy speaks about two very different epochs he spent in Costa Rica.

Despite the arbitrary handling of the pandemic in Nicaragua, it has served as a “justification” for the continuing human rights violations.

Our former Executive Director, journalist Veronica Chavez & her handicapped son Miguel Alejandro Mora Chavez are hospitalized with Covid-19.

Some crises are resolved, others grow worse; but in Nicaragua, we’re living in a permanent crisis with no expiration date…

“Today I want to hold in our minds the priests who have died and those who are sick. I’ve shed many tears for them,” said Cardinal Brenes.

“We urge the Government of Nicaragua to immediately release all political detainees, refrain from reprisals and all acts of intimidation.”

Increased harassment of the independent press, La Prensa intervened, journalists forced into exile & Radio Corporación to self-censorship.

“They’re not penalizing a political leader, but a writer who says what he thinks. I’m a subversive writer.”

“The charges are laughable”. That is how Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez reacted to the arrest order issued against him by Daniel Ortega.