In 1979, a young Carlos Mejia Godoy sang for a people’s armed revolution that was trying to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship. Forty years later the singer and composer is in exile for the second time. Now he is singing for a civic rebellion…
Read More“God helps those who help themselves”, is the title of a collection of proverbs that Carlos Monsivais published as a book. The Ortega government has brought to light their own version of helping yourself, passed on Saturday, June 8th, in the form of a new parliamentary initiative: the amnesty law.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) has begun to insinuate very subtlety to its territorial structures that they must be prepared for an eventual advance of elections. And, they even give a date: 2020.
Read MoreWith the release of 56 political prisoners on Tuesday morning, among them the main leaders of the civic protests and emblematic figures of the April Rebellion, there are still some 86 political prisoners in the jails of the Ortega dictatorship, Civic Alliance’s spokesperson, Jose Pallais, told Confidencial.
Read MoreThe president of the Inter American Press Association, Maria Elvira Dominguez, celebrated that journalists Lucia Pineda and Miguel Mora, were released Tuesday, after six months of being kidnapped by the Ortega dictatorship. However Domingues said…
Read MoreThe self-amnesty decreed by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, with the rubber stamp of the National Assembly, cannot be a “clean slate and a fresh start”, says the President of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), Vilma Nunez de Escorcia.
Read MoreWithout being able to believe the news, Nicaragua woke up this morning to confirmation of the release of dozens of political prisoners that the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo had maintained incarcerated. This time, the released group includes leaders of the civic protest and emblematic faces of the April Rebellion which broke out in 2018.
Read MoreUSA 4 Nica: The story of how an actor, known for his role as a zombie apocalypse survivor, and his anesthesiologist wife, born in Nicaragua, inform U.S. residents about what’s happening in Nicaragua.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continued the release of their political prisoners on the morning of this Monday, June 10, some now under their self-Amnesty Law imposed with a rubber stamp from the National Assembly on Saturday, June 8.
Read MoreWith his self-amnesty, Ortega admits the dictatorship’s responsibility for the massacre. In doing so, he can’t erase his own responsibility as Supreme Police Chief, nor that of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, because according to international law justice for such crimes cannot be proscribed.
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