The news last February, that Taiwan would lend 100 million dollars to the Government of Nicaragua, through its Export-Import Bank (Eximbank), brought outrage and cheers from opponents and supporters of the Ortega regime.
Read MoreFaced with today’s general strike, the delegation of Daniel Ortega to the stalled Negotiating Table issued its own unilateral agenda in an attempt to ward off more international sanctions against its inner circle and close collaborators.
Read MoreA large group of business associations, civil society organizations, mothers of victims of repression, and student movements, among others, formalized a call for a 24-hour national strike, starting at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday May 23rd.
Read MoreWe must stop this irrational cruelty, and force this government to confront the harm they’re causing. Self-interest must be put aside in favor of exercising our moral or economic power before this dire sequence of events sinks us even further into the labyrinth of disgrace.
Read MoreThe murder of political prisoner, Eddy Montes Praslin, by a prison guard in the La Modelo prison last Thursday, should be the Ortega Murillo dictatorship’s last political crime.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) plans to hold an extraordinary session on the crisis in Nicaragua this Tuesday afternoon (2:30 p.m. ET, 1:30 p.m. in Nicaragua). It can be watched live in both English and Spanish.
Read MoreOn Sunday, May 19, hundreds of citizens in Matagalpa bid farewell to the Nicaraguan political prisoner Eddy Montes. Montes, also a US citizen, who was killed by a bullet to the back at the La Modelo prison near Managua.
Read More“The Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy is withdrawing from the negotiating table until the government releases [and drops all charges and sentences] against the hundreds of political prisoners from the agreed list held by the International Committee of the Red Cross,” the alliance said in a statement.
Read MoreStudent leader Zayda Hernandez appeared Sunday night with signs of abuse on her body. The young woman was kidnapped since Friday, abducted in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, when she went to attend a protest for the murder Thursday of political prisoner Eddy Montes Praslin.
Read MoreReparations in Nicaragua are part of the demand for justice of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, which includes the truth about the massacre and no repetition, based on the demands of the Mothers of April Association.
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