On 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 MoreI stopped voting for the FSLN in2004. I was 20 years old. Whoever reads this can criticize me as much as they want for not having realized earlier the type of organization it was.
Read MoreThe Government of Brazil condemned and deplored on Thursday the amnesty granted to Nicaraguan ex-military Pierson Adan Gutierrez Solís, sentenced to fifteen years for the confessed murder of Brazilian university student Rayneia Gabrielle Lima, which occurred a year ago.
Read MoreDespite a massive police deployment, students, former political prisoners and other Nicaraguan citizens participated in sit-ins or express protests in various parts of Managua and other cities of the country on Thursday, July 25.
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