The lack of compliance by the government with the agreements reached at the negotiating table, between the Civic Alliance and the regime of Daniel Ortega, pushes the representatives of civil society to demand the presence of international guarantors.
Read MoreHeynard Baltodano still cannot sleep. Every night, this young man tries to keep his eyes shut in a desperate attempt to rest, but he cannot forget when a policeman hit him in the head with a gun. Patricia Sánchez, can’t work. She is in the same situation as her sister: she can’t sleep, she has no appetite and she suffers from anxiety. The constant police vigilance keeps her on edge.
Read MoreMore than 400 Nicaraguans took part in a march in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, led by marathon runner Alex Vanegas and street vendor Dona Coquito, both exiled recently due to their persecution by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreLess than 24 hours after the regime of Daniel Ortega committed itself to respect civil and political rights of Nicaraguans, a governing party (FSLN) militant fired shots on a demonstration inside the Metrocentro mall in Managua, seriously wounding three people. The Police also attacked and beat protestors and violently arrested several.
Read MoreThe agreement to strengthen citizen rights and guarantees, signed on Friday March 29, in the ongoing dialogue between the Government and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, indicates that decisions will be reviewed in relation to the Police occupation and retention of property, facilities, assets, licenses and other tangible and intangible goods of the media, reported El Nuevo Diario.
Read MoreThe demand to advance the general elections as an alternative peaceful solution to the sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua is the new hurdle in the negotiation table established between the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo with the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy.
Read MoreOn Saturday, once again Ortega called out his riot police and paramilitary forces to lay siege and attack peaceful demonstrators in Nicaragua. It was such a contradiction with the agreement signed the day before with the Civic Alliance that led some observers to doubt that any negotiations with the government are a waste of time.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega agreed on Friday, March 29, to reaffirm the nation’s constitutional rights and citizens’ liberties, which had both been violated and truncated since April 2018. The agreement also contemplates the total liberation with full rights of the over 700+ political prisoners, not just their transfer from prison to house arrest.
Read MoreOn the eighth of each month, exiles from the Nicaraguan city of Jinotepe in Costa Rica remember the atrocious attack perpetrated by paramilitaries and police in Carazo. On July 8, 2018, the Ortega-Murillo regime ordered the dismantling of roadblocks in that department, one of the main bastions of civic protest, which broke out in April throughout the country.
Read MoreOn her knees in a preventive holding cell at the infamous El Chipote interrogation jail, Yolanda Sanchez Moraga thought about her twelve-year-old daughter, while a guard threatened to cut off her hands and to give her over to some policemen to be raped. She cried with fear and in vain implored them to leave her in peace.
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