The lawyers who’ve taken on the defense of the dictatorship’s prisoners of conscience face their own ordeals, including fabricated crimes and even attempts on their lives. The Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH) in Nicaragua has defended more than 200 of the dictatorship’s 777 prisoners.
Read MoreThe March 3rd regional elections on the Caribbean Coast repeated the same irregularities that have characterized elections during the Ortega era, although on this occasion the regime added one more peculiarity: it militarized all voting centers, according to the civic group “Etica y Transparencia” (ET-Ethics and Transparency), the only independent body that followed up on the vote.
Read MoreCarlos Tünnermann told reporters that he expects the so-called “roadmap” to be finalized and presented to the public on Tuesday. “The roadmap is like the constitution. That there are consensual rules. These are standards that both parties must comply with. We hope that tomorrow we can present it,”
Read MoreIt’s been ten months since the last time that Richard Pavon Bermudez, Carlos Alberto Bonilla, and Alvaro Conrado woke up in the morning. Richard, 17, will never again practice with his school’s rhythm band; the bass drum that Carlos Alberto used to play doesn’t sound anymore; and Alvaro, 15, never got to participate in that track competition he had been preparing for.
Read More“The main power that the Civic Alliance has is to get up from the table if Ortega tries to prolong the talks unnecessarily or persists in unacceptable positions in the dialogue,” affirms Luis Carrion, a member of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) and of the Blue and White Unity coalition, of which the Civic Alliance is part.
Read MoreWe are at the threshold of negotiations between representatives of the Civic Alliance and Daniel Ortega. It is no longer called dialogue. It is important that we analyze the starting point well, to help us glimpse how far we can go.
Read MoreThe Police encircled the demonstration held by a group of students on the campus of the private Central American University (UCA) in Managua. The protest had been restricted to the campus, given the students’ fear of being arrested if they demonstrated on the public roadway. The youth demanded a transparent dialogue and justice for the political prisoners as well as for those murdered during the demonstrations.
Read MoreHernaldo Zuniga knows every detail of the horror that has torn Nicaragua apart since April 2018 and knows that during demonstrations against the dictatorship thousands chanted in the streets of Managua, “They’re going… they’re going to hell forever,” it’s his most political composition, that now is seen as prophetic.
Read MoreAfter three sessions of negotiations in Managua between the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, there is still no white smoke around the consensus of a “roadmap” to start a dialogue on substantive issues of the sociopolitical crisis, such as early elections.
Read MoreA total of 19 political organizations, eight of them grouped in two alliances, will participate in the 2019 Regional Elections in the two Atlantic Coast autonomous regions of Nicaragua on Sunday March 3. They will elect 45 council members in each region.
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