A group of Nicaraguan doctors held a protest Saturday in Managua against President Daniel Ortega, despite a strong police operation to prevent it. They demanded the reintegration of doctors fired for attending wounded protestors during armed attacks by the government’s police and paramilitary forces in 2018.
Read MoreIn a letter to the Vatican dated July 30th, the Ortega government announced the end of the national dialogue with the Nicaraguan opposition, which reached a stalemate in the middle of last May. The president then invited the lesser political parties, which collaborate with him and curry favors including legal status, to join in pseudo negotiations for electoral reform.
Read MoreI don’t know how much importance can be given to the refusal by Ortega-Murillo to continue with the dialogue. I think that at the international level the announcement will act like a boomerang that will fall on them.
Read More“Today it was made completely clear that the Government has no willingness to negotiate. Everyone in Nicaragua knew it, but it had to be made clear,” said Azahalea Solis, member of the Alliance’s negotiating team.
Read MoreThe Civic Alliance already has a comprehensive proposal for electoral reforms, which it is presenting to various sectors in search of the necessary consensus that gives it validity and legitimacy, explained Michael Healy, member of the Alliance, in an interview with Cindy Regidor, for the Esta Noche program.
Read MoreGiven the complete refusal of the Ortega – Murillo regime to resume the national dialogue, on July 31st the Civic Alliance entered into a debate on how to transform itself into a “political vehicle”. In doing so, given the new context of the socio –political crisis, it must leave behind its former identity as “merely a negotiating tool”.
Read MoreAfter more than a year since the explosion of the sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua, now aggravated by the economic crisis, the head of the Army finally offered statements to the media.
Read MoreAvil Ramírez, has been responsible for rescuing the historical memory of Nicaragua, showing through newspaper clippings, the news that was recorded by the main newspapers since fifty years ago and that today warn us that we have repeated the history.
Read MoreJuly 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.
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