Nicaragua Archives - Page 308 of 444

Weaving our Criticisms with Respect, not Barbed Wire

There’s been a lot of talk lately about criticism within the broad sector that opposes the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship. A collective catharsis is taking place in the social networks.

UN Office for Refugees Reports 80,000 Nicaraguans Seeking Safe Haven

In Nicaragua, political persecution and human rights violations have been driving a new large-scale displacement, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has denounced.

Nicaragua’s Civic Alliance Announces Organizational Changes

The opposition Civic Alliance announced some organizational changes on Friday. Former political prisoners Medardo Mairena, for the peasant sector, and Edwin Carcache, for the students, were reinstated as full members.

Fabrication of Crimes Used to Repress in Nicaragua

“There’s a pattern of accusing the self-organized and released political prisoners of common crimes. Even though the government has released the majority of those detained as political prisoners, we now see a tendency of accusing them of anything they can,” states Leonardo Abarca of the collective of attorneys and human rights advocates.

Caught Between Famine and Violence: The Miskitos’ Silent Crisis

Murder, kidnapping, sexual assaults, persecution and exile are some of the words that Nicaraguans have been hearing daily since April of 2018, when the sociopolitical crisis erupted. However, among the Miskito communities of the northern Nicaraguan Caribbean, these words are not only recurring—they are a horrific reality they have lived for many years.

The Great Nicaragua Canal Scam

This past Tuesday, during the anniversary of the Naval Force celebrated with the top brass of the Nicaraguan Army, the dictator Daniel Ortega revived his promise to build an interoceanic canal, which according to his official plans should already be about to be inaugurated this year 2019.

Rural Residents Threatened as Ortega Revives Nicaragua Canal Promise

In a press conference on Wednesday, August 14, a leader of the Farmers’ Movement of Nicaragua noted that President Daniel Ortega’s renewed interest in constructing an inter-oceanic canal also brings a renewed threat of expropriation for the rural residents in the south of the country.

Nicaraguan Police Detain ex-Political Prisoner and a Journalist at the Border

Former political prisoner Byron Estrada and La Prensa journalist Emiliano Chamorro were illegally detained for more than two hours at the Penas Blancas border, on Monday night, when they returned from Costa Rica to Nicaragua after attending the “March of Unity” in San Jose.

Ortega Insists on Interoceanic Canal

President Daniel Ortega announced on Tuesday that new environmental projects are being carried out to resume the megaproject of the construction of the interoceanic canal through Nicaragua, a construction work whose investment was initially estimated at US $50 billion.

Expert Recommendations on Elections in Nicaragua

Nicaragua knows how to defeat Daniel Ortega at the polls, even if he’s cemented into the government and enjoying all the advantages of illegitimate administration of omnipotent power. The nation already did so in 1990, and will soon have to do it again, be it in 2019, in 2020 or in 2021.