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Nicaragua’s Political Prisoners Want Their Voices Heard

“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).

Nicaragua’s El Chipote Prison: The Ax Survives its Owner

During 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.

The Lessons Learned in Nicaragua over the Last Year

The 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:

A Generation of Nicaraguans Raises Its Hands

It’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.

A Via Crucis in a “Crucified Nicaragua”

The 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.

Nicaragua: The Suffering of News Anchor Lucia Pineda

Today 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.

Nicaragua: The April Insurrection from a Student’s Perspective

We 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.

Vilma Nunez: “Even with the International Organizations, there are No Guarantees”

The crimes against humanity committed by the regime of Daniel Ortega, and the grave violations of Nicaraguans’ human rights over the past year go beyond anything that Vilma Nunez, president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), can compare it with.

The Challenges Before and After Ortega is Gone

How are we living through and surviving this crisis and how will we build the country’s future through a movement that respects human rights and encourages diversity?

The Old Managua Cathedral – Photo of the Day

The Old Managua Cathedral. By Nubia Ramirez, Nicaragua. Camera: LGMS323