Two big surprises in the news today regarding Nicaragua. One, a revealing interview from Costa Rica by Carlos F. Chamorro with recently resigned Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solis, a key member of Daniel Ortega’s inner circle. The second shocking news item was Chamorro himself explaining that under serious threat, he has made the decision to go into exile in Costa Rica.
Read MoreFormer Supreme Court judge Rafael Solis spoke for 54 minutes before the cameras of the weekly television news show Esta Semana, giving the reasons behind his political rupture with the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreEuropean Union foreign ministers threatened Monday to take action against Nicaragua after months of deadly crackdowns on demonstrations and pressure on the media by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreLife has hit Solange Centeno, 20, hard. At a very young age, she came home one night to find her mother had been murdered by her boyfriend. Today the single mother is living through yet more hard times that she perhaps never imagined – she finds herself in jail with a long sentence for protesting against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreWith the closure of spaces for civil society to protest and particularly the criminalization of human rights defenders by the Ortega’s regime, twelve organizations joined together to form the “International Observatory of the Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua.”
Read MoreThe last time Alejandro Ubau Hernandez spoke with his niece Lucia Pineda Ubau, editor-in-chief of 100% Noticias channel, the journalist expressed her concern about the permanent siege of paramilitaries and the Police at her workplace. A week later, on December 21st, Lucia and Miguel Mora, director of this media outlet, were abducted in a police operation that culminated in the occupation of the premises and the cancellation of the popular channel’s signal.
Read MoreIn the future, in the new Nicaragua that we so long for, we need to unravel and clearly define the responsibilities of each person who has been an accomplice and perpetrator of the wave of repression, and who has helped to maintain this dictatorship. They need to be tried in court, if necessary, to stop them from regaining power and cynically laughing in our faces, again.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Robert Mugabe share a lot of similarities, but also some profound differences. History has now buried Mugabe, while Ortega continues clinging to power, squandering all his political capital and eroding his personal image.
Read MoreWithout truth there is a “pact” and a shady deal in a dark room, mutual forgiveness and a convenient oblivion. Without truth there is cynicism, and what there always is, a recycling of all the culprits, who then, when another one appears, can even boast of being noble and integral people, to whom nobody, never, “could prove him anything.”
Read MoreIn an interview with journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, on the television program “Esta Semana”, Dora Maria Tellez argued that the resignation of Solis from the State-FSLN Party controlled by the presidential couple is a political earthquake.
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