Nicaragua Archives - Page 337 of 448

One of Nicaragua’s Political Prisoners Writes: “Don’t Abandon the Struggle!”

These 7 months have served greatly to discover some very sad things in Nicaragua and to give incalculable motives to do our best to change the current system.

Ortega Opposes Demand for “Transitional Justice” in Nicaragua

Seeking impunty for the crimes against humanity committed in Nicaragua, the Ortega government sees no need for an independent truth commission.

Max Cruz of Ometepe: “I Would Protest Again” for Nicaragua

Max Cruz was illegally abducted in what was the paradise of Ometepe Island on October 8, 2018, along with his wife Marbi Salazar, and in front of his three underage children.

Nicaragua: The April that’s Lasted a Whole Year

In a few days it will be the first anniversary of the civic struggle in Nicaragua. However, the “self-organized” Nicaraguans state that they’ve been mired in April ever since last year.

Dublin, Ireland Event to Mark a Year of Resistance in Nicaragua

Many of us are people who traveled to Nicaragua on Solidarity Brigades in the 1980s to show our support with the revolutionary Sandinista government in the face of the US-backed Contra War. Yet, over the years, we have been disappointed by the increasingly reactionary turn of the Ortega regime.

The Failure of the Negotiations in Nicaragua with Ortega

The negotiations between the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship and the Civic Alliance ended last Wednesday without any agreement on the two most important items on the national agenda, endorsed by hundreds of thousands of citizens during the April Rebellion: democratization and justice.

Protests Continue in Nicaragua Despite Police Repression

Despite the police deployment that began in the early hours of Saturday, April 6, and still continues, groups of the self-organized opposition went out for brief moments to demonstrate at “blind points”, in order not to be arrested.

Nicaragua: He Fought against Somoza, and now against Ortega

July 17, 1979: all eyes are on Managua. That day, dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle boarded a plane that would take him to Miami. It was the end of the Somoza dictatorship. Meanwhile, somewhere between the small cities of Ocotal and Esteli, David Solorzano, a scrawny adolescent of seventeen, already had ten months of combat under his belt…

OAS Demands Return of IACHR to Nicaragua

The Permanent Council of the OAS took up the issue of Nicaragua in a special session on Friday and heard the report of several experts and officials of the organization, among them Luis Angel Rosadilla, delegate of the OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, and witness of the negotiations.

Failure of Dialogue in Nicaragua Will Bring more Sanctions for Ortega

The failure of the negotiations in Managua, given the lack of political will of the Ortega Murillo dictatorship, could accelerate international diplomatic sanctions, which until now are on standby in the face of expectations of the results of the political dialogue.