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Six Rules to Survive an Autocracy with Dignity

Alejandro Bendaña: “Institutions are useless to you; be outraged, don’t make compromises, remember the future.”

Urrejola pointed out that the events this week in Nicaragua show “a new phase of the repression regarding the coming elections.”

The UN and other rights groups are condemning the Ortega government over its mounting crackdown on opposition ahead of November elections.

Human Rights Watch warns that the arrests and home raids are part of a “government strategy” to eliminate political competition.

“My wife Desiree Elizondo and I left Nicaragua to protect our freedom. The exercise of journalism and reporting the truth is not a crime.”

The well-known writer told Argentina’s “El Clarin” daily that he fears imprisonment, amid Ortega’s wave of vengeance against his detractors.

The night before, the police raided Belli’s home seeking to capture him. Expecting an attempt to arrest him, Belli had left into exile.

A women’s collective uses its online platform to tell the stories of Nicaraguan migrants, exiles and those displaced.

They are investigating him, like the majority of the recent 18 detainees, for betraying the regime under a new law to criminalize opponents.

HRW Americas Director: the international community knows that in Nicaragua “there is an unabashed exercise of power” by Ortega and Murillo.