Daniel Ortega commemorated the 40th anniversary of The Repliegue (tactical retreat) to Masaya last week by riding on a Mercedes Benz bus from Managua to Masaya. His was the first in a sea of vehicles that made the journey, accompanied by hundreds of armed police.
Read MoreNicaraguan journalist and former political prisoner Lucia Pineda Ubau was selected as one of the five winners of the 2019 Courage in Journalism Award, a recognition given by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) to brave women who report “on taboo topics, work in environments hostile to women and share difficult truths.”
Read MoreFor more than a year, journalists in Nicaragua who aren’t members of Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Front have been harassed, labeled as liars and arrested. As a result, dozens are now in exile; and those who remain suffer the consequences of reporting on that which the regime would prefer to keep hidden.
Read MoreThe formation of a paramilitary force outside the Constitution confirms the institutional collapse of the National Police. It also reveals that under the command of General Julio Cesar Aviles, the Nicaraguan Army has become an instrument of complicity with the repression, acting as an extension of the State-Party-Family dictatorship.
Read MoreDisarming and demobilizing the paramilitary that participated in the killing of hundreds of people since the beginning of the April 2018 rebellion, isn’t something that Daniel Ortega will ever do, since it “would be a kind of suicide”, states Roberto Cajina, an expert in defense and national security.
Read MoreThe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, will present an update on the ongoing situation of human rights violations in Nicaragua, on July 10th before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Read MoreThe Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy sent a letter to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) putting itself at its’ disposal to “facilitate the process” of compliance with the resolution on Nicaragua, approved by the General Assembly of the organization in Medellin, Colombia, at the end of June.
Read MoreThey were received as heroes. Medardo Mairena, Pedro Mena and Lener Fonseca, farm leaders and former political prisoners of the Ortega-Murillo regime, were welcomed home with open arms this past Friday, July 5, when they returned to their community of La Union in Nueva Guinea…
Read MoreThe Matagalpa diocese denounced governing party sympathizers for their disrespect in one of their churches. At the time this happened on Tuesday July 2, the accused were taking part in an FSLN activity which invaded the atrium of the Matagalpa Cathedral.
Read MoreNicaraguans exiled in Costa Rica, due to the political persecution of the Government of Daniel Ortega, distrust the offer of return by the regime, for lack of guarantees for the respect of human rights and civil liberties in the country.
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