Nicaragua

Mothers and Wives of Political Prisoners Don’t Believe Daniel Ortega

Julia 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.

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Talks Continue in Nicaragua on Citizen Rights and Guarantees

The 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.

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Eighty Years Later: Lingering Pain in Nicaragua

In 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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Nicaragua Doesn’t Want another Amnesty

Amnesty #53 is going to arrive proposing pardon and forgetting in the name of peace and reconciliation for both sides; I’ll pardon these terrorists who came to interrupt the paradise that my wife and I were building, but you must forgive me the acts of barbarity that I, my accomplices and my partners have committed.

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Analyst Richard Feinberg Warns on Nicaragua: “Economy in Free Fall”

The collapse of the Nicaraguan economy has affected more families as a whole than the national banking system, but no one has been left unscathed. In this analysis, two well-known analysts warn that “the continuous withdrawal of deposits could lead to a liquidity crisis, so that banks could not fulfill their obligations…and close their doors or seek new owners.”

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