Nicaraguan business leaders Roberto Zamora, Carlos Pellas, Ramiro Ortiz, Juan B. Sacasa and Jose Antonio Baltodano, all representatives of “big capital”, met with dictator Daniel Ortega on Saturday, February 16th. Their reported objective was “opening the doors to resuming negotiations between the government and the Civic Alliance,
Read MoreA tall, thin man with a resonant voice walks through a room full of Ministry of Education (Mined) employees. He speaks in a menacing tone, and warns those present that no one should be “sabotaging the projects” of the government presided over by Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreA meeting without previously warning the public, of the dictator Daniel Ortega with “representative” businessmen of the sector (I cannot even imagine the names!) and a Cardinal who constantly falters before the couple at the El Carmen presidencial residence/offcies. For him, the repression of January 1st was not such, but only policemen “guarding” the cathedral of Managua.
Read MoreThe total amount of credits channeled through Albanisa, as of June 2018, is close to 4 billion dollars. In times of the fat cows (good times) they averaged 500 million dollars per year, no strings attached. A liquid capital that Ortega managed to his discretion, as private capital.
Read MoreIf in the end Nicolas Maduro decides to resign as president of Venezuela and flee to a friendly country, the ones most mentioned are Russia, Cuba and Turkey. However, the surprise decision by Russia’s Gazprombank to freeze the accounts of the Venezuelan State Oil Company PDVSA, reported by Reuters on Sunday, may have dropped the top candidate from the list.
Read MoreThe regime of Daniel Ortega held a closed-door meeting with “representative entrepreneurs” from the private sector to “address important issues for the common good” of the country. The news of the meeting was published in the government media on Saturday afternoon.
Read MoreThe European Parliament stepped-up its tone of voice this past week towards the government of Daniel Ortega. It warned that there will be soon be measures and sanctions if Ortega does not free the political prisoners, halt repression and allow the return of human rights organizations.
Read MoreDuring the cold war Latin American gorillas murdered, disappeared and imprisoned -in the name of anti-communism- citizens subjugated under their boots. Now the leaders of the left massacre us in the name of socialism and anti-imperialism because the people must be punished when they are so stupid as not to recognize what benefits them and when they spit the hands of their liberators.
Read MoreAs most Nicaraguans know, in 2018 our lives changed drastically; despite gaining in courage and indignation, we lost our freedom. That sentiment of national sorrow for the deaths and the political prisoners keeps us in a state of collective mourning. Added to that grief, I left the country in June. But let me first tell you about my childhood relationship with mental health.
Read MorePrivate sector sources informed Confidencial that all government efforts to negotiate an economic agreement with business executives, outside of a national political agreement, have failed. The position of the business groups remains the same: no dialogue on the economic situation until there is a national political agreement leading to early elections.”
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