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Nicaragua: Ortega Threatens Opponents with International Punishment

“If there will be anyone taken to any International Criminal Court it is the criminals who promoted these crimes,” Ortega said. He added: “We are already working” on it.

Daniel Ortega is a Spinoff of Somoza

The conclusion is obvious: Ortega-ism is the reincarnation of the Somoza years. We’re not looking at the second stage of the revolution. We’re looking at the second stage of Somocismo.

OAS Commission Prepares “Conclusive” Report on Nicaragua

During a brief interview broadcast on the internet news program Esta Noche, the US ambassador to the OAS stated that Nicaraguans have pointed to those responsible for the human rights violations. “Also, something that many of us hadn’t heard before: the great complicity of the military in these violations.”

Opposition Feels Ortega Won’t Negotiate Without Pressure

Far from the “normality” that the regime of Daniel Ortega intends to simulate by sending his police and his paramilitaries into the streets, the opposition leaders that met with the OAS Commission in San Salvador described to the press in that country the day-to-day life of the Nicaraguans.

Harassment and Espionage in Costa Rica against Zoilamerica Ortega Murillo

Zoilamerica Ortega Murillo looked out of the window on the morning of this September 30, and saw something disturbing outside her home in San Jose, Costa Rica: an old Suzuki jeep with two Nicaraguan flags was blocking the parking area. Inside the car was an older man wearing military camouflage clothing.

Nicaraguan Photographers Documented the Violence and Repression

“Photography in Times of Crisis: Narrating the Crisis through Images”, was held as part of the public launching of a book compiling hundreds of photos from the most brutal and violent months of repression touched off in Nicaragua in April of 2018.

US Congressman Tells Ortega its Hold Early Elections or Face Further Sanctions

Albio Sires, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued a new warning to the Nicaraguan dictator, Daniel Ortega, demanding that he restore respect for human rights and hold early elections in Nicaragua, or “face further sanctions”.

On the Closing of Nicaragua’s El Nuevo Diario Newspaper

This Friday we woke up with the sad news of the closing of the El Nuevo Diario daily newspaper’s operations. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has achieved its objective: curtail fundamental rights and public liberties.

“We Nicaraguans Must Reinvent Ourselves”, says Bishop Rolando Alvarez

Having borne witness to the failure of both Marxism and capitalism, “We Nicaraguans must reinvent ourselves” and establish a system that responds “effectively” to the country’s reality, declared the bishop of the Matagalpa diocese, Monsignor Rolando Jose Alvarez Lagos.

Nicaragua Opposition Groups Meet with OAS Commission in El Salvador

“What we perceive is that the commitment between the General Secretariat and the OAS Commission is a shared commitment to seek restitution of rights and an inclusive electoral reform” in Nicaragua.