Government-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.
Read MoreOn Monday, September 23, a delegation from the opposition group Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy began an intense lobbying campaign that includes the US House and Senate, as well as the Organization of American States (OAS). Their agenda also contemplated meetings with the Nicaraguan diaspora.
Read MoreThey fled Nicaragua to save their lives, hold onto their freedom and their physical integrity. In exile, some slept on the cold streets of the Costa Rican capital with empty stomachs. Others, from the United States, fostered the international denunciation of the violations of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Read MoreThey arrived prepared, coordinated and ready. The majority were certain that they would not advance a kilometer from the four points where the march would start. And, indeed, so it was. On Saturday, September 21, Managua woke up militarized with hundreds of agents, patrols and paramilitaries…
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