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Victoria Obando: “We Won’t Stop Until Ortega is Gone”

The student, transgender activist and released political prisoner maintains her demand that Ortega must go so that Nicaragua can be rebuilt.

Three dictatorships in Latin America on International Human Rights Day

In Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, above all, no reference will be made. Or if any is done it will sound ironic.

A Legion of Cuban Buyers Invades Managua’s “Oriental” Market

In the huge bustle of the “Mercado Oriental” in Managua a new accent is heard, one that marks a novelty between buyers and merchants.

In Nicaragua, Human Rights in 2018-2019 are All Wrong

The past 2 years in Nicaragua have one thing in common: they’ve been marked by the most brutal repression the country has experienced in times of peace.

Nicaragua’s April Mothers’ Association: “No Peace for Us until There’s Justice.”

“The state should turn over to us a list of the police and paramilitary involved in the repression,” so there can be a real investigation.

More than 160 Political Prisoners Remain in Ortega’s Jails

“We are planning to go out on the streets. We want a Christmas without political prisoners,” said Karen Lacayo, sister of political prisoner Edward Lacayo,

New Documentary on Monimbo, Nicaragua’s Rebellious Spirit (Video)

The documentary analyzes the unique way in which the inhabitants of this indigenous neighborhood protest against government repression.

The Silence of Big Business in Nicaragua’s Civic Rebellion

Why would Nicaragua’s business owners organized in COSEP (Superior Council of Private Enterprise) not accept joining in on a national strike?

Widow of “Chabelo”: “The Ortega Government Killed My Husband”

Hundreds of residents of Masaya turned the funeral of Jose Isaias Ugarte into a demonstration against the Ortega-Murillo regime.

Nicaraguan Student Leader Amaya Coppens Beaten for Reporting Abuse of other Prisoners

Parents of political prisoner Amaya Coppens reported that their daughter was beaten and her hair pulled by a Police officer at the infamous El Chipote jail.