Nicaragua

Felix Maradiaga Returns to Nicaragua: “I Came to Stay”

The opposition politician and director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Public Policies (IEEPP) returned to Nicaragua on Monday afternoon, September 16, after a year of forced exile, due to the political persecution of the Ortega-Murillo government, which accused him of financing terrorism and drug trafficking.

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Nicaraguan Doctors in Exile, Humanitarian Clinic in Costa Rica

The garage is filled with refugees. They are seated in plastic chairs arranged in rows, as though ready for prayers, or mass. But the people – mostly women with children – aren’t listening to the voice of a pastor. Far from it. They are waiting to be called by a medical doctor in street garb, sporting blue latex gloves and a stethoscope…

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Pancho Cedeno Sings Once Again in Protest against Dictatorship

Pancho, as he’s still known, was one of the members of the music group “Pancasan”, author of popular songs of the day such as “La Hora Cero” [Zero Hour], “Apuntes del Tio Sam” [Notes on Uncle Sam], and “Maria Rural”.  Forty years later, he’s gone back to writing and composing, in the face of the clamor of a new generation that seeks the end of another dictatorship.

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Nicaraguan Business Execs Call for Unity

The twenty-six organizations that make up the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP), defined 15 points for the restoration of democracy, the fundamental rights of Nicaraguans, and the economic recovery of the country.

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