“I was crying, I was angry, because they were taking away my cousin. Seeing that a policeman was filming, I got mad and threw the rock at him,” said the fourteen-year-old student from a Managua high school, who on November 22 came out in defense of her classmates.
Read MoreThe Cuban government expressed its unwavering support for its ally Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua on Thursday and condemned the recent measures announced by the US government sanctioning the vice president and first lady Rosario Murillo, and the national security adviser, Nestor Moncada, reported Granma, official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Read More“This government is uglier than my handwriting,” Nahiroby Olivas, a student from Leon, joked in a video that he posted on Facebook on June 29. The yellow sign he’s holding contains the handwritten phrase: “He who doesn’t love his country, doesn’t love his mother.”
Read MoreWith the news that Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega may attend the inauguration of Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday Dec. 1st, social networks are busy convening a massive protest against the dictator’s presence.
Read MoreThe National Assembly, controlled by the Ortega and Murillo regime, canceled the legal status of the Center for Information and Health Advisory Services (CISAS), led by the recently expelled feminist activist and human rights defender Ana Quiros. Through his legislators, Ortega ordered that “all goods and assets belonging to the NGO must be delivered to the State of Nicaragua.”
Read MoreDonald Trump issued an “Executive Order” against the Ortega government and his close associates, sanctioning Vice President and First Lady Rosario Murillo, and the national security advisor Nestor Moncada Lau. Afterwards, the US Senate unanimously approved the legislation known such as “Magnistsky Nica Law,” which is designed to punish Daniel Ortega’s government.
Read MoreFor the last three decades cartoonist Manuel Guillen has been portraying events in Nicaragua. Today we bring you several of his latest works, illustrating the “normal” situation the country is breathing.
Read MoreThe backbone of the Ortega regime’s political communications strategy at this time is centered on the attempt to demonstrate that the country has returned to normal. It’s a sterile effort, condemned to failure, since the realities and the very decisions and actions of the regime all point in the opposite direction.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s regime has just raised the level of their harassment against feminist movements, in a day of abuses that culminated on Monday with the expulsion from the country of feminist leader Ana Quiros.
Read MoreI’ve watched the video of the students from the “Republic of Argentina” school in Managua, showing a young girl throwing a rock towards one of the Police mercenaries from the Ortega-Murillo regime. In addition to recording her on his cellphone, he then pulls out his gun threatens her and the rest of the young teens accompanying her in a transitory student rebellion.
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