Daniel Ortega has achieved what neither Putin, nor climate change, nor China, nor the immigration problem, nor Maduro nor Syria could do: he inspired nothing more and nothing less than the adoption of a bipartisan consensus between the US Republican and Democratic parties regarding his regime.
Read MoreElis Leonidovna Gonn, 24, and supposedly of Russian origin, was identified by the National Police as responsible for the attack with sulfuric acid against priest Mario Guevara, on Wednesday afternoon in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, when he offered religious services. The motives of the attack have not yet been revealed.
Read MoreThe bilateral and multilateral sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and the US Senate against Ortega’s regime, which include a sanction against the First Lady and VP Rosario Murillo, represent—in the opinion of the seasoned Latin American expert Richard Feinberg, “a strong, exceptional message,” so that Ortega “enters into negotiations with the people of Nicaragua.”
Read MoreDaniel Ortega says nothing about the United States’ sanctions against his government and against his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo. Not a phrase, not a word has crossed his lips: no reference to the topic at all. He used the opportunity to attack his brother, former Army Chief Humberto Ortega, and the Catholic bishops.
Read MoreNestor Moncada Lau, known as Chema, is the guardian who watches over the FSLN General Secretary, Daniel Ortega. This lawyer and experienced former official of the Ministry of the Interior’s State Security has strong ties of loyalty to Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThe United States infiltrated the inner circle of the presidential couple. With the sanction to Nestor Moncada Lau (“Chema”), Ortega’s private secretary, and liaison to the Police, paramilitary groups and intelligence activities, they have shown President Daniel Ortega that they know what is going on in the political kitchen of El Carmen bunker.
Read MoreUpon hearing that the members of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN) in Matagalpa would support Daniel Ortega’s government, despite three days of protests during which more than twenty people had already died, Dilon Zeledon got up from his chair and said: “I disagree! We owe our presence here to the students. How are we going to leave them in the lurch?”
Read MoreAny definition of the substantive cruelty that you know, will lead you inevitably to think about the behavior and feelings of the dictatorial couple Ortega-Murillo, and to imagine how, during the last bloody seven months, they have enjoyed ordering the repression first, and contemplate the suffering of others afterwards.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (Telcor) has ordered cell phone operators to take the 100% Noticias television channel off the satellite signal. Weeks ago, it had already ordered the removal of the station from the UHF signal, installing a new State channel.
Read MoreIn its effort to squash any independent reporting in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega’s police told popular journalist Miguel Mora on Friday evening that he and his family could be killed at any moment, reports 100% Noticias.
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