Faced 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.
Read MoreSince April 18, 2018, when most Nicaraguans witnessed the Ortega-Murillo regime’s repression, protests have taken place not only in the streets but on the walls as well. The Instagram account, “The Walls Also Shout” (In Spanish: Las paredes también gritan), provide a small sampling of the discontent.
Read More“It seemed an act of hypocrisy to us. At the same time, we’re aware of the accolades the rector showers the government with,” affirmed Joel Herrera, a student and member of the University Action, a student movement in Managua’s UNAN that arose from the civil rebellion of April 2018.
Read MoreAs someone who participated in the solidarity movement with Nicaragua from its beginning in the 80s and was instrumental in setting up sister city arrangements between German and Nicaraguan cities, I find it the German diplomatic corps’ current support of the Ortega regime unbearable.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States (OAS) has taken almost two months to move towards the formation of a high-level diplomatic commission to address the crisis of Nicaragua. Once formed “It would be a serious mistake,” of the Ortega government not to receive this delegation, warns Carlos Tunnermann, Coordinator of the Civic Alliance.
Read MoreDuring these almost three months of intense protests, marches and demonstrations of different types, those leading these protests are mainly university students. These marches have the participation of millions of Hong Kong residents who have found innovative and non-violent ways to protest against the Police.
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