The Nicaraguan Ministry of Energy and Mining plans to distribute solar panels as a benefit to colonists within the nucleus of the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. The distribution would be through an initiative that forms part of the “renewable energy development project for the rural areas,” using funds from South Korea.
Read MoreEdgard Parrales was a priest and is a lawyer. He is 76 years old and knows Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega well. In the eighties, he was a Sandinista Government Ambassador to the OAS and also held other public posts with the same government.
Read MoreWhat’s known about that day is that she was at the station, together with station directors Miguel Mora and Veronica Chavez, most likely editing or planning the next day’s programming. Around 9 pm, the channel’s programming was abruptly cut to insert a live denunciation. “We have breaking news! There are riot police trying to enter the site of 100% Noticias,”
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet this week to address the situation in Venezuela (Jan. 10) and Nicaragua (Jan. 11). In any vote, the 15 countries that make up the Caribbean Community (Caricom) would have an important weight.
Read MoreThrough the smoke of the rebellion in April, which the Government of Ortega-Murillo went “all out” to squash, a friend asked me: What is this regime like after the repression? Ortega may not resemble Stalin, but the repression and punishments of these last eight months have had the same result and have been executed with the same rage as the Stalinist purges.
Read MoreNicaragua is now under an undeclared state of siege where independent media and journalists are under constant attack from the Ortega government and its Police and paramilitary forces. The following letter was issued by the international Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday.
Read MoreGiven the time elapsed and the magnitude of the crimes of the Ortega regime, described in the report of the GIEI, comments are heard in different environments that we are heading towards the situation of Venezuela, a country in which the protests petered out in spite of the growing crisis, and Maduro is getting ready to “assume” a new 6-year presidential term after staging an electoral circus.
Read MoreDespite claims by the Trump administration that it considers the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrio a brutal dictatorship and calling it a threat to US National Security, in practice the administration has found a way to help Ortega, who was a stable ally of the US for over a decade.
Read MoreWhile the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continue to maintain that everything is back to normal in Nicaragua and the “coup mongers” are defeated, the Nicaraguan Police continue to be trained in military tactics for a possible civil war. The preparations take place after over eight months of crisis caused by the government repression.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Police captured at least four people in Masaya on the afternoon of January 3, following a strong deployment of riot police and paramilitary forces. Residents of that city affirmed that the heavily armed men of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo broke into a number of homes and stole the owner’s belongings.
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