One day last March, ‘Emiliana’, a 36-year-old Nicaraguan living in a city on the Pacific Coast, went to one of the agencies that receives and processes remittances from abroad, to pick up $70 that had been sent to her. She was only able to receive the money after two days of paperwork and an interrogation in which she was even asked about her religion.
Read MoreHaydee Castillo wrote the last sentence of her speech five hours before she was to read it during the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) session. She was tired, nervous and the hardest moments Nicaraguans have been living through for this last year kept running through her mind.
Read MoreThe Ortega regime’s plan of using the negotiating sessions with the Civic Alliance to promote an amnesty was energetically rejected by the Mothers of April Association, which brings together dozens of parents, siblings and family members of the victims of the Ortega-led massacre.
Read MoreThe savings and loan cooperative “Caja Rural Nacional” (Caruna RL- National Rural Fund), the financial institution the Ortega regime used to divert billions of dollars in funds of the Venezuelan State cooperation, closed its offices in Esteli, Somoto and Ocotal.
Read MoreIn mid-February, Nicaragua’s big bankers, along with the key representatives of capital, known as the “COSEP business council advisors”, met in private with Daniel Ortega, with all agreeing to restart the negotiations.
Read MoreThe regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has raised the level of confrontation against the members of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, accusing them on Monday, without evidence, of being “responsible and guilty of crimes and destructive actions,” during the civic protests of 2018.
Read More“Esperanza” was born in the sixties. Her father participated in the Patriotic Military Service during the Contra War and she participated in the literacy campaign. She affirms that she is loyal to the Sandinista Front, because it is the only party that “has done something for us and for the economy of Nicaragua.”
Read MoreWriter, political activist and well-known feminist Gioconda Belli says that “it took an act of empathy” to write her latest novel from a male point of view. In her new work, Fevers of Memory, the protagonist is a man – Charles Choiseul de Praslin.
Read MoreIn the second poorest country of Latin America, it’s offensive, vulgar and disgusting to hear reporters, who in reality are the regime’s propagandists, say that questioning Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s 22 grandchildren studying in the private German-Nicaraguan School comes from “envy.”
Read MoreMagali Quintana Pereyra, director of the organization “Catholics for the Right to Decide”, suffered a sudden and fatal stroke on the morning of May 5th. The news generated consternation in Nicaraguan society.
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