One point few people in Nicaragua – from the government to the opposition – disagree on, is who is the country’s most powerful person. There’s little doubt that First Lady/VP Rosario Murillo calls most of the shots for the entire regime.
Read MoreOne of the most noteworthy news items of the last few days has been the United States government’s imposition of sanction on the presidential couple’s son and on the Ortega family’s bank, known as Bancorp (Banco Corporativo, or Corporate Bank).
Read More“The compilation of so much detailed information [to the Ortega government] serves to develop political espionage, but also to estimate what the ranges of transfers, remittances, and other asset transactions could be taxed. The volume of information is going to be very high,” said an economist.
Read MoreThis avalanche of artistic expression has been a genuine contribution to the struggle to change a society that seemed to be submerged in indifference and cynicism,” said Manuel Guillen, cartoonist of La Prensa.
Read MoreA number of posters with political propaganda were hung in the halls of the Colegio Aleman Nicaraguense [German Nicaraguan School] by the grandchildren of the presidential couple, according to information posted on social media. This occurred after a group of seniors held an activity to commemorate the victims of the civic rebellion that began in April 2018.
Read MoreSolis cautions that if the Civic Alliance renews their dialogue with the Ortega regime without the complete release of the political prisoners, it would amount to “political suicide”.
Read MoreThis is how April 2018 began: a fire, young people raising their voices and the repressive response of the Ortega government to stop any demonstration that would alter its “normality.”
Read MoreThe only vulnerable point of the Ortega-Murillo regime is its susceptibility to US sanctions, according to the latest report from the British-based Economist Intelligence Unit The EIU maintains its prediction that the FSLN will not leave power before 2022, even if this means, “Nicaragua’s descent into a Venezuelan-style quagmire.”
Read MoreThe image of euphoric protestors celebrating the fall of the first “Chayopalo”, one of the omnipresent metal “trees of life” imposed by Rosario Murillo, on the third day of the civic protest, revived in my memory the same sense of liberation that I lived some 40 years ago when the statue of Somoza García on a horse came crashing down.
Read MoreNicaraguans are hurting a year after the beginning of a civic rebellion and ongoing government repression took place. Both inside the country and among exiles many are barely getting by.
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