In a week in which we are commemorating the adoption 70 years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights around the world, the abrupt revocation yesterday by the Nicaraguan National Assembly of the legal status of respected human rights organizations fills us with the greatest concern.
Read MoreHours after ordering the police attack and pillaging against several Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations, Ortega appeared in Havana where he will receive the support of his allies from Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Read MoreOn a night that recalled the style of the Nazi attacks known as “The Night of the Broken Glass” of 1938, the Nicaraguan Police assaulted and looted in simultaneous raids on numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to which the Parliament had canceled their legal operating permits in recent days.
Read MoreThe cancellation of the legal non-profit status for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) on Wednesday, December 12 took the members of that organization by surprise. Those who were at the organization’s head offices turned on the live broadcast of the legislative session to follow the discussion in Parliament.
Read MoreAround midnight on Thursday, the offices of CONFIDENCIAL, where the writing of an online daily newspaper, weekly magazine and the television programs Esta Semana and Esta Noche are produced, were illegally and violently assaulted by officers of the National Police, loyal to the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreFaced with the worsening political, social and economic crisis, the private sector demanded on Wednesday that Daniel Ortega accept dialogue to promote political reforms, including to convene fair and transparent early elections with a new Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). “Without a political agreement, there is no solution to the (national) crisis,” stated the country’s top business leaders.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Parliament, controlled by the ruling Sandinista Front leader Daniel Ortega, today withdrew the legal status of five more non-governmental organizations (NGOs) considered critical of the leader, raising the total to nine in recent days.
Read More“I have always talked about a complicit silence. However, from the perspective of military ethics, the Army has an obligation to speak out. At least say: ‘Stop the massacre, the illegal arrests, the tortures,’ and tell that to the regime, says defense and national security expert Roberto Cajina.
Read More“If you could imagine how the life of a migrant is, who has to hide from immigration to not be expelled, or be taken prisoner, that is how I have to hide so they don’t kidnap me here in Nicaragua,” says “Veneno”. He is 24, and remains in hiding. For him this has been the price to pay for protesting against the regime of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreA week ago, Wells Fargo Bank informed the four banks with which it maintains relations in Nicaragua—BAC, BANPRO, LAFISE and FICOHSA—that within a month it would withdraw from the country, and therefore could not continue to provide the correspondent service, revealed to Confidencial an international financial source.
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