Hansell Vasquez liked to dream of owning a big company. He saw himself leading it and giving his family the comforts that they had once lacked. He made several start-up attempts. His mother, Lilliam Ruiz, thinks about him every day. At times she finds herself thinking that it’s all a lie, that her son isn’t in prison, that he’s just gone on a trip, camera in hand, to make some videos…
Read MoreMorales wants to install a dictatorial power opposing other powers of the State (the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor’s Office), Ortega has a consolidated dictatorship, although tottering. Their modus operandi unite them, above and below their supposed ideological differences.
Read MoreThe next stage of the struggle in Nicaragua must lead to defining an organization that can bind together and legitimize the self-organized movement; a body that succeeds in uniting us around proposals and ideals that move away from the failures that we’ve experienced.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega hopes that Russia can play an important role in sustaining his government under pressure internationally from most of the Americas and the European Union. Ortega’s regime is accused of horrendous human rights violations and faces a deflating Nicaraguan economy approaching free-fall under the weight of multiple sanctions.
Read MoreThe resignation of Rafael Solis to his high office in the Nicaraguan Supreme Court, and also to his militancy in the Sandinista Front, shook the country from the very bases of the governing party, among whom many still resist to believe that one of the most pragmatic and loyal voices within the inner circle of the dictator Daniel Ortega has abandoned ship.
Read MoreHuman rights defenders and activists, along with relatives of political prisoners in Nicaragua said that the statements made this week by former Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solís should have the immediate effect of invalidating the trials carried out by the Ortega-Murillo regime against political prisoners and ordering their release.
Read MoreRafael Solis’ resignation is the most important statement that’s been produced up until now from the regime’s functionaries, not only because he’s a Magistrate on Nicaragua’s Supreme Court, but also because he’s been a figure very close to the inner circle of power that surrounds the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Read MoreThe measure taken by the customs office can only be interpreted as another attack of the Ortega-Murillo regime on Nicaraguans’ right to freedom of expression and information. In Venezuela, first Hugo Chavez and now Nicolas Maduro has utilized the same policy to eliminate the print versions of the majority of the opposition print media.
Read MoreOcho meses de crisis social y política en Nicaragua han golpeado al periodismo crítico de país, con 712 casos de violación al libre ejercicio del periodismo, un periodista asesinado, dos presos y decenas exiliados, además de varios medios asaltados por la fuerza pública.
Read MoreThe wife of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and vice president of the country, Rosario Murillo, announced this week that they have begun to develop a “blessing campaign” in those places “where there was conflict” in the framework of the protests against the dictatorship, which started in April 2018.
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