The criminalization of protest in Nicaragua is the most serious threat to peace and freedom, according to a message from the Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua, presided by Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes.
Read MoreRafael Solis, the best man at the wedding of Daniel Ortega and current vice president Rosario Murillo, was considered Ortega’s principal political operator within the Judicial branch of power.
Read MoreThe closure of Nicaragua’s El Nuevo Diario newspaper alarmed the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). “We are really shocked,” says Edison Lanza.
Read MoreGovernment-allied mobs and officials of the National Police attempted to forcefully break into the installations of the independent radio station Radio Dario in the Nicaraguan city of Leon on Thursday afternoon, September 26.
Read MoreThree Nicaraguan journalists denounced on September 25th in a special session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the persecution against journalists and the horrors and dangers facing the independent press from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan national newspaper El Nuevo Diario announced its closure on Friday at midnight, due to “economic, technical and logistical difficulties, which made its operation unsustainable”.
Read MoreAlong with Lucia Pineda Ubau, the channel’s news director, they were submitted to a political trial accused of alleged crimes of “incitement to hatred”, “conspiring” and “terrorism.” “I was imprisoned for doing journalism, not for politics,” claims Mora.
Read More“The possible interruptions of official external loans to Nicaragua, particularly of multilateral development banks, would generate external liquidity pressures.”
Read MoreThis September, it has been a year since the imposition of a de facto state of emergency in Nicaragua, which has effectively suspended constitutional rights, without the National Assembly having decreed a state of emergency by law.
Read MoreCivic struggles are eroding the power of authoritarian and unpopular regimes. From Hong Kong to Sudan, from Algeria to Moscow, from Puerto Rico to Nicaragua, all have in common the predominance of mobilizations of the population demanding political change.
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