I recently reread a story that shows how the current tragedy in Nicaragua has been brewing for many years. The news refers to the repression unleashed against farmers opposed to the infamous Canal Law 840, which for them, and in the light of any minimal intelligence, is just the legal veil with which the regime sought to disguise the plundering of the country’s natural resources and betray its much-vaunted nationalism.
Read MoreBecause they did not have the cooperation of the State to do their investigations the GIEI approached experts in network analysis, who studied more than three million tweets and more than 10,000 videos available on networks, which were the tools used by protesters to denounce the human rights violations and the violence unleashed by the State.
Read MoreThe emergency meeting had been requested by Luis Almagro, OAS General Secretary, to “hold a collective consideration of the situation and adopt the decisions determined to be convenient,” with respect to applying the Inter-American Democratic Charter to Nicaragua.
Read MoreMy brother Ricardo tells me that some 70% of those imprisoned come from Sandinista roots, and probably the same thing is true of the murdered. That’s not really strange, according to my thinking, because true Sandinismo taught us to fight against injustices, and nothing is more unjust and criminal than the regime of Ortega and Murillo, that we’re still enduring.
Read MoreOn December 31, 2018, while part of Nicaragua celebrated the end of the year, political prisoners from the “La Modelo” prison, in Tipitapa, were beaten and tortured physically and psychologically. It happened at 11:30 pm, when a group of students began to sing “I will miss you” (a song by the band ‘Tercer Cielo’) and then the National Anthem.
Read MoreIn a letter signed by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega asks the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean not to support the initiative of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, to hold a session of an urgent nature, in which the application of the Democratic Charter on Nicaragua would be put to a vote.
Read MoreIn his last speech of the outgoing year, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega kept silent about the report of international human rights organizations, which point to his regime as responsible for the worst bloodbath in the country’s history in times of peace. He called for a rice and beans economy and told the population to tighten their belts in 2019.
Read MoreAlthough a week has passed since the arrest of journalists Miguel Mora and Lucia Pineda Ubau, director and news director of the television channel 100% Noticias, the authorities at the El Chipote jail haven’t allowed family members to have any communication with them. They have not offered up any information on the state of their health.
Read MoreOn January 1st, time gives us 365 days in blank. How will those 8,760 hours be filled in this homeland besieged by the storm of a people blowing winds of change against the closed gate of stubbornness and cruelty of its rulers? What have they gained in these months? Their victories are pyrrhic, deceitful, fragile victories.
Read MoreIn the plenary session of the OAS Permanent Council, Secretary General Luis Almagro said, referring to the Nicaraguan leader, that “it is a shame that one of the last living historic revolutionaries of Latin America, which until a year ago still represented the possibility of a democratic revolutionary left on our continent, has chosen the path to authoritarianism, abuse of human rights, and repressive and oppressive ways to maintain power.”
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