The image of euphoric protestors celebrating the fall of the first “Chayopalo”, one of the omnipresent metal “trees of life” imposed by Rosario Murillo, on the third day of the civic protest, revived in my memory the same sense of liberation that I lived some 40 years ago when the statue of Somoza García on a horse came crashing down.
Read MoreNicaraguans are hurting a year after the beginning of a civic rebellion and ongoing government repression took place. Both inside the country and among exiles many are barely getting by.
Read MoreNicaragua’s Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy announced Tuesday that it will not resume negotiations with the government of Daniel Ortega until it complies with the agreements signed on March 27 and 29, 2019, regarding the release of the political prisoners and restoration of citizen rights and freedoms.
Read More“The message they convey is that they are still struggling, that they have not been dominated, notes Vilma Nunez, the head of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh).
Read MoreDuring last April’s insurrection, the old detention and torture center was back in business. An FSLN party flag overlooks El Chipote, stained with the blood of a diversity of dissidents of different caliber: journalists, press directors, students, workers and farmers.
Read MoreThe level of political maturity and awareness of the people in Nicaragua has been surprising and a new political culture has been seen before all of us. It is because we learned from the past, and the April, 2018, uprising has left us its lessons, here some of them:
Read MoreIt’s easy to look back and view with clarity what’s happened in Nicaragua, but in 2018, when we were running from the bullets, we couldn’t even imagine many of the things that we’d be experiencing.
Read MoreThe traditional circuit of the “Sangre de Cristo” (Blood of Christ), in the capital, this year included the use of the national flag and crosses to remember the victims of the government repression, allowing thousands the opportunity to protest with some relative safety.
Read MoreToday I visited my sister Lucia Pineda Ubau for the first time in the prison “La Esperanza,” in Tipitapa. I really wanted to see her, but I feared what I would feel when I saw her.
Read MoreWe faced an unprecedented repression unleashed by the Ortega/Murillo dictatorship, with paramilitaries and an entire state apparatus, which has been difficult to assimilate by our generation, raised under a false democracy.
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