July 27, marked a year since we were fired from the “Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello” Teaching Hospital in Leon, Nicaragua. Very early that day, Hospital Director Judith Lejarza, in the role of Angel of Death, gave the fateful news to the first group of doctors and hospital workers that they had been fired from Nicaragua’s public hospitals, for completely political reasons.
Read MoreThe Government of Daniel Ortega granted Nicaraguan nationality to the fugitive former president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, along with two of his children and his wife Ada Mitchell, according to the edition of the official La Gaceta, published on July 30th.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s regime confirmed Thursday that the President of the Republic does not govern in Nicaragua. Instead, he orders and commands, as the supreme chief of the National Police, who remains in power through a police state.
Read MoreOn Saturday afternoon dozens of students from the American University (UAM) received their university degrees in an impromptu event held at the campus, after they protested the sudden cancellation of the graduation ceremony, which would have taken place hours later in the Ruben Dario National Theater.
Read MoreMaria Jose da Costa, mother of the Brazilian student Rayneia Lima, murdered in Managua on July 23, 2018, was never notified that the Nicaraguan Public Ministry was representing her in a trial to clarify the crime against her daughter. This week, marks one year since the murder of my daughter.
Read MoreThe body of Josue Sandigo Reyes, 22, was discovered on June 16, in the community paradoxically known as Desamparados [“The Defenseless”] outside of San Jose, Costa Rica. An empty bottle of poison lay beside it. Sandigo had been one of those in the occupation of the National Autonomous University (UNAN) in Managua during the protests against Daniel Ortega’s government.
Read MoreThe executive director of Ética y Transparencia (Ethics and Transparency), Roberto Courtney, fears the Sandinista’s experience in politics will entangle the members of the Civic Alliance opposition, in an eventual negotiation over electoral reforms in Nicaragua.
Read MoreAttorney María Oviedo, of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH), was arrested by officers of the Masaya police station on Friday July 26th. The Police also rearrested former political prisoner Jaime Navarrete. He is apparently being held in the infamous El Chipote interrogation jail.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan ambassador to the UK and Ireland, Giusell Morales Echaverry, was invited by the Venezuela-Ireland Network to address a recent meeting in Dublin. Members of the Irish Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign handed the ambassador a letter signed by 54 former brigade and solidarity activists calling for an end to the repression and early elections.
Read MoreIt’s beena year andfour months since the political crisis beganinmy country, andI can’t stopthinking about all the young people who’ve hadto leave Nicaragua, inorder to escape fromthe regime of Daniel Ortega andRosario Murillo.
Read More
