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Ortega’s Raid on the Home of Humberto Belli

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.

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.