Among all the violations of human rights committed by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo since April of 2018, there’s one that they continue to relentlessly practice using the police state they’ve imposed: persecution. That’s the consensus of a number of experts. Read on to see their comments.
Read MoreDictators invariably rediscover the supposed principle of non-intervention when it suits them. That is what Augusto Pinochet did in Chile and Fidel Castro in Cuba. In the current case, the mantra of nonintervention also clashes with the reality that foreign powers are already intervening in Venezuela.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Army has issued a statement to deny the content of a compromising video with comments from the former Minister of the Interior, Ana Isabel Morales, which acknowledges the involvement of Military Intelligence in political espionage activities. However, after some verbal juggling and obscure phrases the Army was unable to clear up the situation.
Read MoreThe last time that Alex Vanegas, 63, ran through the streets of Managua was last November 2nd. That day he put on his white athletic shoes, a blue and white shirt with shorts of the same color, and left together with Flor Ramirez – known as the patriotic dancer – for the Milagro de Dios [“God’s Miracle] Cemetery.
Read MoreThe headquarters of the Nicaraguan Network for Democracy and Local Development (known as the Red Local or Local Network), in Managua, was raided without notice by the Ministry of the Interior on Thursday morning, confirmed Amaru Ruiz, coordinator of the organization.
Read MoreThe number of political prisoners of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has risen to 767 people, according to the Committee of Political Prisoners, which groups relatives of detainees as a result of the regime’s political persecution.
Read MoreOrtega has the strange ability to create consensus, but in opposition to him. He also achieved this in the United States, bringing together democrats and republicans–who never agree on anything–and yet they adopted a unanimous policy towards his regime.
Read MoreThe package of fiscal and Social Security reforms imposed by the Nicaraguan Government, hoping to raise tax collection, faces a unanimous rejection by business chambers: “It means a coup d’état to the economy, it will cause more unemployment and capital flight,” summarized the President of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), Jose Adan Aguerri.
Read MoreThe cellphone flashlights blinded Miguel Mora. The deputies from the European Parliament had illuminated the cell to locate the imprisoned journalist in the darkness. Mora, a political prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, was in the depths of the cell, dressed in a blue prison uniform.
Read MoreThe World Economic Forum celebrated as a “success” story the fact that Nicaragua occupies fifth place on the list of the ten best countries in the world for women. Nicaragua occupies a place far above that of countries like the Philippines and Ireland, and also above that of all the other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read why and how.
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