Nicaragua Archives - Page 32 of 430

New Book Depicts Nicaraguan Political Prisoners’ Resistance

My brother, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, writes of his one year, seven months & eighteen days in Nicaragua’s “El Chipote” jail & under house arrest

Tirso Celedon, president of Agronegocios Comerciales, is the Ortega-Murillo family’s main figurehead in energy and real estate businesses.

Thirty days from graduating from a technical career, 180 young people were left hopeless. Forty workers and teachers were left unemployed.

“We will continue to advocate for implementation of sanctions against the Army and other entities & individuals complicit with the regime…”

Resolution demands the release of political prisoners & tells the OAS Permanent Council to continue reporting on the situation in Nicaragua.

Espionage, threats, denial of passports, disappearance of records, are among the new repressive methods of the dictatorship.

The Judge said the sentence sends a message “to the educated and well-dressed that they should not believe they will escape accusations.”

Forty-five years after the joyful victory over the Somoza dictatorship, the country isn’t celebrating a triumph, but reliving a Deja vu.

Each “tree of life”, a whim of VP Rosario Murillo, had a price tag of $20,000 in 2017, not including electricity and maintenance costs.

Never before have Nicolas Maduro and his main collaborators had to make such compromising decisions about maintaining their project.