Juan Carlos Arce, a member of the human rights defenders’ group “Nicaragua: Impunity Never Again,” said that this pattern, resumed by the Nicaraguan state in recent months, is a strategy that had been implemented since 2007, when Ortega returned to power, and the executions were carried out by the National Army and the Police.
Read MoreOrtega announced the cancellation of the negotiating table. He closed it, for now. When he feels the need, to dig it up again, it will be with the same purpose: Distract, confuse and gain time.
Read MoreSix young people from the self-organized movement were kidnapped by the Ortega police on Wednesday afternoon in Jinotega, when a patrol intercepted them on their way to the Our Lady of the Angels church, where they intended to take part in a memorial mass for three people killed a year ago as part of the regime’s “Operation Clean-up” across the country.
Read MoreEvery day I read fiery statements. Various trends, fears and dreams are expressed from social networks about what should or should not happen in the Nicaragua of the future. The opinions are very diverse, but it is remarkable how the patterns of our history are repeated in them.
Read MoreWorried that the outside world would once again witness the repudiation of his government and hoping to control internally through fear, Commander Daniel Ortega has once again ordered his Police to prohibit any type of public protest in Nicaragua.
Read MoreWhile the paramilitary killer of Brazilian med student Rayeina Lima was being released from prison and given a clean slate on Tuesday, five women in the city of Leon were arrested for putting balloons outside one of their homes. The fact is, in Nicaragua reality far surpasses any fiction.
Read MoreAs if rubbing salt in an open wound, an Appeals Court judge in Managua ordered the release on Tuesday of paramilitary Pierson Gutierrez Solis, who exactly a year ago murdered the fifth-year Brazilian medical student Rayneia Lima.
Read MoreAt night, inthe port city of SanCarlos, Río SanJuan’s capital, there are hotels, restaurants, eateries, bars andevenslot machine casinos totally empty or withjust two people inthem. The fewbusinesses that have any customers are the exception.
Read MoreDespite the Ortega regime’s police state and ban on any public protests since last September, a group of students asked the National Police for authorization to march on July 25, in the framework of National Student’s Day, which is celebrated on July 23, to reaffirm the demand for university autonomy.
Read MoreThe price of Ortega’s repression of citizens civic demands has been “extremely high,” said The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in its latest report on Nicaragua. The Economist warned that such a situation has “led to a dramatic deterioration of the economy” and that the current recession threatens to become a “depression.”
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