“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.
Read MoreMurder, 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreFormer 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.
Read MorePresident 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.
Read MoreNicaragua 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.
Read MoreAlthough 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.
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