Last April 16, the head of the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security (INSS), Roberto Lopez, announced the Ortega government’s unilateral decision to impose several unpopular reforms to the country’s pension system, which served as a trigger for a crisis that had been accumulating for years. Those reforms were retracted five days later. As of this week, they are back…
Read MorePopular Columbian musician Carlos Vives cancelled his scheduled Managua concert aimed at “raising money” for the National Zoo. The WK Entertainment Agency that manages Vives’ shows and the Premier Productions Company, which organized the event, informed the public on Monday of the cancellation via a press release. The show had been scheduled for March 23.
Read MoreNicaraguan journalist Miguel Mora and Spanish MEP Ramon Jauregui Atondo spoke for half an hour in a cell of the El Chipote prison in Managua. The talk was considered by the European MP as “moving.” The case of the journalist drew the attention of a mission of the European Parliament, which was in Nicaragua last week to learn in situ what happened in the country since last April.
Read MoreA group of female political prisoners of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has promised resistance from the “La Esperanza” (Hope) women’s prison, where some of them have already been convicted and others, like Irlanda Jerez, have been waiting for a hearing for seven months.
Read MoreThis past Friday, January 25, Nicaragua’s Permanent Human Rights Commission (CPDH) denounced the fact that more than a hundred of the protesters being held prisoner in Nicaragua have been victims of “theft” and “cruel treatment” on the part of their guards.
Read MoreA mission of European Parliament members (MEPs) concluded their fact-finding visit to Nicaragua on Saturday afternoon by holding a press conference. They ruled out the Ortega government’s central argument that a coup attempt had occurred,, declaring that thesis “speculative and partisan,” as well as “not supported by any evidence.”
Read MoreI believe that the massacre of 2018 and all the crimes that are being committed in Nicaragua come from the lie that has been lived since 1979, year in which we thought that we touched the sky with our hands, and in a blind ecstasy we allowed a gang not fit for power to accumulate it excessively.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan private sector on Thursday demanded the National Police to withdraw “immediately” the public accusation in which it accuses the business associations of participating in a failed “coup d’état” last April.
Read MoreThe “Reconciliation Law” devised by VP Murillo was approved on, January 23, in the Nicaraguan National Assembly. While Ortega’s regime claims that the law will help resolve the crisis that the country is experiencing, the opposition and the relatives of the massacred victims see it as an attempt to leave unpunished the crimes against humanity committed by the dictatorship.
Read MoreThe statements from high-level representatives of the current Mexican government announcing their willingness to serve as mediators in the Nicaraguan crisis, provoked a broad and serious debate, as well as concerns and some aggravation.
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