In the middle of my silence, I saw myself one afternoon narrating in some old papers the great tragedy that we have witnessed in Nicaragua. I am going to tell it to you in these two illustrations I did with acrylic paint, graphite pencil and charcoal.
Read MoreThe government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have declared their own amnesty. The emergency law was rushed to the National Assembly on Friday and passed by their legislators on Saturday.
Read MoreMusic quickly became an essential element of the civic protests that began in April 2018, against a new family dictatorship that has made Nicaragua bleed. A new generation of artists, including Bruno Cortina, was moved to compose the soundtrack of this new civic rebellion, which has left 326 dead, more than 700 political prisoners and the forced exile of some 60 thousand people.
Read MoreIt’s 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 20. Abril Ariana, 10, Roberto Leonel, 8, and Angel Neomar, 3 months old haven’t had their Dad at home for many months. Their mother, Mazkiel Hernandez, has made countless visits to the El Chipote jail, to the La Modelo prison, to the courts and to the local and international human rights organizations to denounce her husband’s detention.
Read MoreRelatives of Maycol Gonzalez, a protester killed on May 30, 2018, reported that they were harassed by Ortega government supporters when they visited his grave to put flowers in the Ticuantepe cemetery.
Read MoreThose who headed up the protests of the April Rebellion against the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have become symbols of the citizens’ resistance. They are the ones who remain in the prisons…
Read MoreThe immense fortune created by the combination of high oil prices and the copious extraction of black gold from Venezuelan subsoil laid the foundation for a “Bolivarian Joint Criminal Enterprise” (BJCE), according to a new report signed by Douglas Farah and Caitlyn Yates, the president and investigator for IBI Consultants, LLC.
Read MoreJournalist Marlon Jeronimo Powell Sanchez knew that the regime would go after him. The communicator fled from his native Masaya, an hour before the police and paramilitary forces of Ortega took armed control of the city on July 17, 2018.
Read MoreThe second half of June brings an unprecedented and unfavorable external scenario for the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. Three heavyweight actors from the international arena— the United States, the Organization of American States and the European Union—, will be making decisions that will weaken the regime or at least force it to yield on grounds up until now impenetrable.
Read MoreRaul Castro turned 88 on Monday and the Nicaraguan governing couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo sent the Cuban Communist Party leader their warm congratulations.
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