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My Daughter and Granddaughter Jailed in Nicaragua

Like the rest of those arrested, they’ve raised their voices to denounce injustice and reclaim their rights. All in peaceful resistance.

Ortega and Murillo will never leave power with good grace. The president still has a social base and is willing to see more bloodshed.

Rafael Rojas: Classifying peaceful dissenters as coup plotters, terrorists and traitors implies a limitation of political rights.

It is surprising that left-wing sectors in the region continue to almost religiously defend Otega and the current FSLN in Nicaragua.

With the human rights violations, the government “is going down an alley that Nicaraguans don’t deserve,” UN official Alberto Brunori states.

Something broke in this latest onslaught, altering the path of events. Ortega has evidently opted for a de facto suspension of the elections.

They point to the banker with the same “Sovereignty Law” cited to justify the arrests of presidential candidates and other opponents.

The reason for the persecution is the quest of Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo to hold elections with no real opposition.

A solid majority of 26 votes approved the resolution while only three voted against: Nicaragua, Bolivia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The government tries to justify repressive actions that it has carried out in recent weeks against opponents and presidential candidates.