We are the Alvaro Conrado April 19th Movement in Panama, born from the need to create a community of Nicaraguans united to serve as a support network and accompaniment to the thousands of Nicaraguan brothers and sisters who have been forced to emigrate and take refuge in the wake of the sociopolitical crisis In Nicaragua.
Read MoreThe onset of the rainy season and with it the agricultural cycle is “just around the corner”. However, the banks aren’t offering credit, even though the tax reforms have increased the cost of all inputs for this sector.
Read More“There aren’t any flights until May,” an employee at Avianca airlines tells the crowd of people who line up. They sell plane tickets to Nicaragua at their office, located on the ground floor of the Habana Libre hotel in Vedado, and ever since late January, there has been a long line out the door.
Read MoreIt’s always hard for a sexual abuse victim to come forward and speak about her tragedy with an outsider. Even more so, if there’s a video camera running between the two. Leonor Zuniga believes that Zoilamerica Narvaez agreed to speak with her about the denunciation of her stepfather, Daniel Ortega, “because I promised her two things.”
Read MoreJulia Malbina Bermudez, wife of retired Nicaraguan army major, Tomás Maldonado, believes that the 90-day deadline the government set to free all political prisoners in the La Modelo prison is too long. She does not believe Daniel Ortega will keep his promise because many analysts and international diplomats think the dictator is a serial liar.
Read MoreThe negotiations between the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega concluded on Tuesday another meeting without agreements on the restoration of citizen rights and guarantees. “Our approach is to recover all the freedoms that have been cut off: the freedoms of mobilization, assembly, organization, expression,” said an Alliance delegate.
Read More“What has happened in Nicaragua overcomes fiction, it is already a tragic realism that Nicaraguans live in. It is a horror soap opera that never ends,” says Arquimedes Gonzalez, the author of “Waiting for April”, in an interview with Acan-EFE.
Read MoreThere cannot be any middle ground, negotiation, or ambiguity, to fully restore freedom of the press, expression, association and mobilization. The self-convoked movement has the right to protest civically and to march in the streets today and tomorrow, without asking the dictatorship for permission…
Read MoreThe political prisoner Kenia Maria Gutierrez Gomez, 36, only had to obey a few guards to obtain the release to house arrest offered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. However, this Chinandega woman refused and chose to remain imprisoned in the La Esperanza women’s prison in Tipitapa.
Read MoreIn March of 2019, at almost 80 years since the prison, torture, persecution and exile, and 59 years since the death of my father, now, under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, the same painful ordeal have been experienced by thousands of victims of the injustices of power.
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