Nicaragua Archives - Page 197 of 448

Oxfam: “Our Projects Benefited over 129,000 Nicaraguans”

The Oxfam director for Latin America and the Caribbean, affirmed that the Interior Ministry refused to receive “the papers they asked for”

Nicaraguan poet & author Gioconda Belli expressed her concern for the flight of human capital in Nicaragua with the stepped-up repression.

“Ignoramuses, envious, meddlesome, a curse,” and accusations that they want to boycott November’s presidential elections.

A commitment to report from abroad and document what is happening in Nicaragua, despite the persecution against the press.

The women being held are “political activists, feminists, academics, journalists, revolutionary commanders, lawyers & human rights advocates”

Organizations working with women’s empowerment, environmental protection, and public participation in different spheres are targeted.

Internal purges, ideological sectarianism & political maneuvering by parties linked to Ortega ate away at the foundations of opposition unity

Since May, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights documented attacks on 12 media outlets and journalists by the Ortega government.

The worldwide association of writers PEN International called for a global response in defense of “free expression & free press in Nicaragua”

In Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, people are fleeing and anywhere seems better than where they are now, all risks worthwhile.