Although the Nicaraguan Army’s high command argues that it has remained outside the sociopolitical crisis and has also declared itself the victim of a “brutal smear campaign,” Melendez asserts that the military institution has behaved as “a partisan extension of the Ortega family.”
Read MoreDifferent sectors “of the blue and white struggle” converged in San Jose in a massive march to demand justice and freedom. It was a protest as vital as those that took place in Nicaragua before the dictator Daniel Ortega banned them with bullets.
Read MoreA delegation from the Ortega-Murillo government traveled to the distant United Arab Emirates this past week to seek funds that will allow them to continue afloat amid the severe economic crisis that Nicaragua is going through as a result of police and paramilitary repression.
Read More‘Karla’, a Nicaraguan primary school teacher, feels frustrated. “Another Friday in which the training was about peace, reconciliation and rejection of the coup mongers. I am fed up of the same,” she says annoyed.
Read MoreThe US economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government and the warnings from US National Security Advisor John Bolton about a potential economic blockade on the Nicaraguan dictatorship have revived the phantoms of scarcity and extreme poverty that ravaged the country during the decade of the 1980s.
Read MoreMusic, dance, photography, poetry and handicrafts were the artistic expressions presented by several former political prisoners and Nicaraguan artists who have joined the civic struggle against the Ortega-Murillo government…
Read MoreAmong the dozens of photos that the days of repression against the “vandalizers” have left us, one of the most iconic shows six elderly men sitting at a table while one on foot paces left to right with a leaden step, as if presenting a tableau of the trajectory of the FSLN leadership.
Read MoreThroughout these stormy months, the Civic Alliance is the organization that led the negotiations with the regime, having nothing less than the present and the future of the entire country on the table…
Read MoreVioleta Granera, member of the political council of the Blue and White National Unity movment, claims to be conscious of the desperation and criticism of Nicaraguans inside and outside of the country…
Read MoreEcuadorian president Lenin Moreno received this week the Nicaraguan journalist in exile, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, director of Confidencial and the programs “Esta Semana” and “Esta Noche”. The meeting between them lasted more than an hour.
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