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Nicaragua: Former FM Francisco Aguirre Sacasa Jailed

The former diplomat was stopped and arrested while returning to Managua after Nicaraguan border officials blocked his exit to Costa Rica.

The injustice has filled me with an internal strength that does away with the fear of whatever reprisals they might carry out against me.

Institutions controlled by Ortega disregard all norms of due practice, the Constitutional guarantees and signed international treaties.

Costa Rica will vaccinate undocumented people living in the country against Covid-19, assured President Carlos Alvarado on Tuesday, July 27.

“Our position, from the opposition, should be to tell the Ortega-Murillo regime we are not willing to play their game,” said Berta Valle

Ortega says any “weaklings” opposed to his government are “coup mongers” paid by the disrespectful Yankees, and thus deserve jail.

Peraza explained that with several candidates in jail none of the “enabling conditions” exist to hold free elections in Nicaragua.

Five of the political prisoners’ defense attorneys have fled the country, following an uptick in threats against them.

Medical groups that criticized the regime for its handling of the pandemic are the most harshly punished by the initiative.

Moises Hassan: “Imprisoning people who had a certain degree of projection in the struggle against Somoza is utterly insane.”