In his last speech of the outgoing year, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega kept silent about the report of international human rights organizations, which point to his regime as responsible for the worst bloodbath in the country’s history in times of peace. He called for a rice and beans economy and told the population to tighten their belts in 2019.
Read MoreAlthough a week has passed since the arrest of journalists Miguel Mora and Lucia Pineda Ubau, director and news director of the television channel 100% Noticias, the authorities at the El Chipote jail haven’t allowed family members to have any communication with them. They have not offered up any information on the state of their health.
Read MoreOn January 1st, time gives us 365 days in blank. How will those 8,760 hours be filled in this homeland besieged by the storm of a people blowing winds of change against the closed gate of stubbornness and cruelty of its rulers? What have they gained in these months? Their victories are pyrrhic, deceitful, fragile victories.
Read MoreIn the plenary session of the OAS Permanent Council, Secretary General Luis Almagro said, referring to the Nicaraguan leader, that “it is a shame that one of the last living historic revolutionaries of Latin America, which until a year ago still represented the possibility of a democratic revolutionary left on our continent, has chosen the path to authoritarianism, abuse of human rights, and repressive and oppressive ways to maintain power.”
Read MoreToday, just hours before 2018 comes to an end, somebody asked me: what do you want the most next year? And I replied: I wish for Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s government in Nicaragua to end immediately, for this is a government that has lost all credibility and has become a UNIVERSAL EMBARASSMENT.
Read MoreNicaragua will never be the same after the events that shook the country starting in April. The fierce, deadly government repression against the non-violent civic rebellion has set the country back decades as far as security, politically, economically and in its social fabric. The nightmare continues on as we enter 2019.
Read MoreThis year I have shed so many tears, both for acquaintances and for strangers. This year I have also seen how little Nicaragua seems to mean to the rest of the world, even as I saw demonstrations of solidarity take place in hundreds of places across the globe.
Read MoreThe dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is set to launch a new “national defense policy” for 2019, which includes increasing the recruitment of more police officers and cutting 30% of the payroll of different ministries of the State and autonomous entities, according to a working document attributed to Vice President Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThere are earthquakes that follow other earthquakes. Today in Nicaragua, we’re not living through a movement of the earth as in 1972, but another kind of tremor has left families equally in mourning, buildings shuttered, lives splintered, children left orphaned.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan economy was a doll with feet of clay, which depended on the understanding between the private and the public sectors to function. However, the government repression against the civic protests dynamited that privileged relationship, revealing the fragility of the national economy, says economist Jose Luis Medal, interviewed on the program “Esta Semana”.
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