Nicaragua

False News from the Ortega Murillo Government in Nicaragua

On March 15, dozens of journalists spent more than two hours following a yellow bus with curtained windows which was supposedly taking some released political prisoners to their homes. However, when the bus reached Leon, it was discovered that the passengers yelling slogans were actually workers from the Penitentiary System.

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Ortega’s Monologue and Unilateral Agenda

After breaching the agreements with Nicaragua’s Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, the Ortega regime promotes a unilateral agenda. The Alliance withdrew from the negotiations, conditioning its return to the definite release of all the hundreds of political prisoners.

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The Mulan Who Never Returned Home

I grew up in Jinotepe, a small city some 45 minutes from Managua. I lived in a very large house with my maternal grandmother, my Dad, my Mom, four siblings, two cats a parrot and four dogs. A house where silence didn’t exist. However, I remember spending my early childhood afternoons in the home of my other grandmother, Mamaru, and my grandfather Papa Armando.

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From Luis Enrique to Luis Enrique: Songs for Nicaragua

The sixth literary festival “Centroamerica Cuenta 2019” closed in San Jose, Costa Rica with a “concert-talk show” by representatives of two generations from a family of musicians: Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and Luis Enrique Mejia Lopez, who talked about their songs and about their lives as artists who have upheld the name of Nicaragua.

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