Although Flor Ramirez usually kept her face covered with a blue and white kerchief while dancing to the marimba music during the civic protests, the disguise hasn’t entirely worked. She is constantly harassed and persecuted by the Police under the orders of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreKevin’s family contacted Dr. Alejandro Lagos Espinoza when the youth, who was wounded during the April protests, was still in the Managua’s “German-Nicaraguan Hospital” with a fractured arm from an AK-47 bullet. The family was desperate, because despite their pleas to the doctors, Kevin wasn’t receiving adequate medical attention.
Read MoreMaria Oviedo, an attorney with Nicaragua’s Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH) who has defended a number of the regime’s political prisoners, was declared guilty on Thursday, August 29, following a trial that lasted over ten hours. She faces sentencing on Monday, September 2.
Read MoreAt a year andfour months fromthe onset of the socio-political crisis, mental healthexperts note that we Nicaraguans are ever more stressed, anxious anddepressed, as well as continuing to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read MoreThe Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy presented this Thursday a proposal of thirteen reforms to the electoral system, which in turn includes five constitutional changes to move up general, municipal and regional elections, prohibit reelection and establish a runoff election.
Read MoreFaced with the OAS initiative, the Nicaraguan Ambassador to the organization, Luis Alvarado, expressed the “strong protest” of the Ortega government, which considers the forming of the OAS commission an act “harmful to our national sovereignty.”
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) has initiated a 75-day countdown for the Ortega-Murillo regime to negotiate a solution to Nicaragua’s sociopolitical crisis with the “high-level commission” approved on Wednesday.
Read MoreIn this interview Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata denounces the selective killings in the countryside and the persecution against the Church in Nicaragua. He also revealed why the bishops had decided not to participate in the second effort to have a national dialogue.
Read MoreUnity is precisely the idea of being able to move together towards an objective, regardless of the differences. It is obvious that we have hundreds of political, social and economic problems that we need to solve, but as long as we do not solve the biggest problem we currently have, which is to live under a dictatorship that violates all human rights, including the right to life, we can never solve the rest.
Read MoreWhen the political change arrives, after free elections, the new democratic government won’t only have to disarm and dismantle the paramilitary and oversee a total change in the National Police, but they will also have to change the Attorney General’s office from the ground up.
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