Without being able to believe the news, Nicaragua woke up this morning to confirmation of the release of dozens of political prisoners that the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo had maintained incarcerated. This time, the released group includes leaders of the civic protest and emblematic faces of the April Rebellion which broke out in 2018.
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USA 4 Nica: The story of how an actor, known for his role as a zombie apocalypse survivor, and his anesthesiologist wife, born in Nicaragua, inform U.S. residents about what’s happening in Nicaragua.
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Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continued the release of their political prisoners on the morning of this Monday, June 10, some now under their self-Amnesty Law imposed with a rubber stamp from the National Assembly on Saturday, June 8.
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With his self-amnesty, Ortega admits the dictatorship’s responsibility for the massacre. In doing so, he can’t erase his own responsibility as Supreme Police Chief, nor that of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, because according to international law justice for such crimes cannot be proscribed.
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In the middle of my silence, I saw myself one afternoon narrating in some old papers the great tragedy that we have witnessed in Nicaragua. I am going to tell it to you in these two illustrations I did with acrylic paint, graphite pencil and charcoal.
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The government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have declared their own amnesty. The emergency law was rushed to the National Assembly on Friday and passed by their legislators on Saturday.
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Music quickly became an essential element of the civic protests that began in April 2018, against a new family dictatorship that has made Nicaragua bleed. A new generation of artists, including Bruno Cortina, was moved to compose the soundtrack of this new civic rebellion, which has left 326 dead, more than 700 political prisoners and the forced exile of some 60 thousand people.
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It’s 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 20. Abril Ariana, 10, Roberto Leonel, 8, and Angel Neomar, 3 months old haven’t had their Dad at home for many months. Their mother, Mazkiel Hernandez, has made countless visits to the El Chipote jail, to the La Modelo prison, to the courts and to the local and international human rights organizations to denounce her husband’s detention.
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Relatives of Maycol Gonzalez, a protester killed on May 30, 2018, reported that they were harassed by Ortega government supporters when they visited his grave to put flowers in the Ticuantepe cemetery.
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Those who headed up the protests of the April Rebellion against the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have become symbols of the citizens’ resistance. They are the ones who remain in the prisons…
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