A detailed analysis of the arsenal used by the army of the Ortega regime’s paramilitary forces against the population in Nicaragua during the civic rebellion demonstrates the deployment and use of at least seven types of war weapons, and also suggests that the unit of Tactics and Weapons Police of Intervention and Rescue (TAPIR) was involved in the massacre.
Read MoreEnrique Krauze is excited to talk about Nicaragua. He states that it touches on a topic that was “very important” in his life because, he says, he openly supported the Sandinista Popular Revolution, the guerrilla movement widely supported by society that ended in July 1979 with the tyranny of the bloody Somoza legacy.
Read MoreTo followers of Daniel Ortega, Roberto Cruz became a traitor. And that’s a crime that party loyalists know you pay for in spades. Roberto knew this too, but, even so, he was willing to pay for his rebellion by going to jail. He’d always been a Sandinista. Even a month before they arrested him, he’d remarked to his wife: “[Daniel Ortega] could have left office as Nicaragua’s best president.”
Read MoreUnder the expressed orders of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan Police used officers with experience in criminal investigation to “make a file” on the leaders of the students’ protests, peaceful demonstrations and barricades/roadblocks in the country. With that information the order was to detain them in their homes or directly “eliminate them,” says a former Police lieutenant.
Read MoreThree major political movements defined the extended Nicaraguan 20th century: anti-imperialism, anti-dictatorial struggles, and indigenous, Afro-descendent and campesino resistance to the formation of the national mestizo state. The political legacy of these great movements defines today the character and influence of civic struggles for democracy and sovereignty…
Read MoreBishop Silvio Baez criticized on Sunday the latest aggression suffered by a group of female political prisoners, jailed for protesting against the government of Daniel Ortega, in the context of the crisis that the country has been experiencing since last April.
Read MoreThe Granada that Rodolfo Sanchez knew has changed radically with the political crisis that’s shaken Nicaragua. Sanchez, a young man with a hearing disability, has worked at the Café de las Sonrisas (Cafe of Smiles) for seven years. When the city was left without tourists, he was nearly left unemployed.
Read MoreUS sanctions to Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), that already include Alba of Nicaragua (Albanisa), have also reached the Banco Corporativo SA (Bancorp) and all majority-owned subsidiaries, announced the Deputy Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Affairs, Kimberly Breier on Friday, Feb. 8th.
Read MoreI am a Portuguese socialist and I am very proud of that. What I have seen in Nicaragua has nothing to do with socialism. What I saw were violations of human rights, violations to the rule of law, violations of the most basic democratic procedures.
Read MoreThe brutal blow that the government of Daniel Ortega has just given to Nicaraguans with the new social security reforms must be fully appreciated in light of its causes and background. The writing has been on the wall progressively for a decade.
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