“What has happened in Nicaragua overcomes fiction, it is already a tragic realism that Nicaraguans live in. It is a horror soap opera that never ends,” says Arquimedes Gonzalez, the author of “Waiting for April”, in an interview with Acan-EFE.
Read MoreThere cannot be any middle ground, negotiation, or ambiguity, to fully restore freedom of the press, expression, association and mobilization. The self-convoked movement has the right to protest civically and to march in the streets today and tomorrow, without asking the dictatorship for permission…
Read MoreThe political prisoner Kenia Maria Gutierrez Gomez, 36, only had to obey a few guards to obtain the release to house arrest offered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. However, this Chinandega woman refused and chose to remain imprisoned in the La Esperanza women’s prison in Tipitapa.
Read MoreIn March of 2019, at almost 80 years since the prison, torture, persecution and exile, and 59 years since the death of my father, now, under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, the same painful ordeal have been experienced by thousands of victims of the injustices of power.
Read MoreDozens of lightning protests led by citizens dressed in blue and white on Saturday challenged the police state in Nicaragua, which once again tried to silence the peaceful protests against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAmnesty #53 is going to arrive proposing pardon and forgetting in the name of peace and reconciliation for both sides; I’ll pardon these terrorists who came to interrupt the paradise that my wife and I were building, but you must forgive me the acts of barbarity that I, my accomplices and my partners have committed.
Read MoreThe negotiation table maintained by the Government of Daniel Ortega and the Civic Alliance to overcome the crisis that broke out almost a year ago in Nicaragua agreed to reconcile the various lists of “political prisoners” before proceeding to their final release.
Read MoreThe collapse of the Nicaraguan economy has affected more families as a whole than the national banking system, but no one has been left unscathed. In this analysis, two well-known analysts warn that “the continuous withdrawal of deposits could lead to a liquidity crisis, so that banks could not fulfill their obligations…and close their doors or seek new owners.”
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan “civic insurrection” has spawned hundreds of political prisoners and this is the welcome message they get when entering prison: “They told us that if Nicaraguans rise up civically again, they will kill all of us without even thinking about it.”
Read MoreInside the house we found Carlos Silva watching a soccer match. While the sportscaster’s voice ran on, the former prisoner remained seated, watching the passes and the plays. He was dressed in loose cotton pants, Croc sandals and a sleeveless shirt. All his clothing is blue: the same outfit he was using behind bars. “It’s a form of solidarity,” he says.
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