The Nicaraguan “civic insurrection” has spawned hundreds of political prisoners and this is the welcome message they get when entering prison: “They told us that if Nicaraguans rise up civically again, they will kill all of us without even thinking about it.”
Read MoreInside the house we found Carlos Silva watching a soccer match. While the sportscaster’s voice ran on, the former prisoner remained seated, watching the passes and the plays. He was dressed in loose cotton pants, Croc sandals and a sleeveless shirt. All his clothing is blue: the same outfit he was using behind bars. “It’s a form of solidarity,” he says.
Read MoreAs many know, during the ongoing Maduro crisis, both sides of the aisle attempted to dialogue with the purported goal of finding a peaceful solution. The premise, of course, was that the dialogue was the only acceptable alternative because otherwise Venezuela would spiral into more violence. Venezuela’s reality is very close to Nicaraguan reality.
Read MoreBeyond the brutal police repression of the march held last Saturday, March 16, the Blue and White National Unity movement (UNAB) sees the events as a relaunching of the citizenry’s “political challenge” to the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in the streets.
Read MoreEl Salvador’s Supreme Court on Thursday decided to seek the extradition of former president Mauricio Funes from Nicaragua on corruption charges, Funes, who was president from 2009 to 2014, has been living happily for more than two years in Nicaragua, where he was granted political asylum by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAlmost a year after the civic rebellion started and after the dictatorship’s ban on protests, the demonstrations in Nicaragua are intensifying. The pulse could be measured in the corridors of the Central American University (UCA). It is one of the few places where forms of rebellion still live.
Read MoreA group of young Nicaraguans in exile have decided to launch a communications project to take on the topic of transitional justice in the current Nicaraguan socio-political context. The objective behind the new “Zero Hour” informational platform is: “to introduce the importance of “clarifying the truth” of the crimes that have occurred in the last year of civic protests.
Read MoreAfter denying for months the existence of political prisoners in Nicaragua, and ensuring that the detainees are “common criminals,” the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo agreed to free the estimated 760 political prisoners eleven months after the crisis began.
Read MoreJandir Rodriguez, author of the song “Heroes of April,” has been told that his songs will not change the reality of the country. But he has always believed that music “can transform society.” Along with his guitar, he has focused all his musical production to sing to young people killed by repression, to the mothers and to those exiled.
Read MoreThe letter was sent to the Foreign Ministry on Friday, a day before the violent repression unleashed by the Police against protestors. However, it wasn’t leaked until Monday in the midst of multiple criticism from the international community to the Ortega-Murillo regime for their decision to attack the citizen’s demonstration.
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