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Expert Report: Ortega Regime Committed Crimes “against Humanity”

The Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo committed “crimes against humanity” during the repression of the civic protests, says the final report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which at the same time recommends investigating President Ortega and the Directors, Deputy Directors and department chiefs of the National Police, as well as other officials, for their responsibility in the acts of violence.

“Ortega Is Putting the Finishing Touches on his Image as a Traitor”

“You know you’re lying,” Vilma Nunez told the National Police the day after they accused her and Gonzalo Carrion, legal advisor for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), of manipulating and bribing the survivors of the fire that killed six members of a family in a Managua neighborhood.

Nicaragua Alert: Ortega’s Police Storm Leading TV Station, Kidnap the Director

Nicaraguan Police, under the orders of commander Daniel Ortega, arrived Friday night at the 100% Noticias TV facilities in Managua, broke in, destroyed the equipment and kidnapped the directors Miguel Mora and Veronica Chávez, as well as the press chief, Lucia Pineda.

Editorial on Ortega’s Assault on Journalists in Nicaragua

Censorship leaves citizens blind and at the mercy of their rulers. The recent assaults of President Daniel Ortega against the communications media represented by Confidencial and Esta Semana are a deliberate attack on freedom of the press and freedom of expression.

Donald Trump Signs the Nica Act to Pressure Ortega

With Trump’s signature the legislation takes effect, which will bring individual sanctions for the Ortega/Murillo regime’s representatives, as well as conditioning loans to the Government by international financial institutions such as the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

UN Rights Chief Fears Silencing of Nicaragua’s Civil Society

This week’s expulsion of human rights observers and the crackdown on media in Nicaragua puts the country’s civil society at serious risk, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned Friday. “There are now virtually no functioning independent human rights bodies left in Nicaragua,” noted Bachelet in a statement that was issued in Geneva.

Before Night Falls in Nicaragua

Carlos Fernando Chamorro knew it. Or, at least, he suspected it: “With Daniel, one is always wrong. The most common mistake is to underestimate him, because in the end he always gets something out of any situation. We do not know what will happen this time, he has it difficult, but we must be alert, very alert.”

Ortega and His Party Ignore History, Progress and Evolution

Principles aren’t static or unwavering, just like truth isn’t an obligation of faith. Everything is moving and constantly changing, especially in a global society that swiftly imposes itself. Questioning is the generator of scientific, progressive and revolutionary though. Blindly following a dogma, without taking contextual factors into account, leads to backward attitudes.

Nicaragua: “Confidencial is in the Souls and Minds of its Journalists”

The journalist and director of “Confidencial” and the “Esta Semana” TV program, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, reacted to the assault and illegal takeover of his offices, by saying that all Nicaraguans are exposed to the dictatorship fabricating charges to censor them or turn them into political prisoners. However, he maintained that even without space for a newsroom, the media outlets he directs will continue reporting.

The Ongoing Eight-Month Epic Struggle in Nicaragua

Eight months ago, began the epic struggle of the incredible Nicaraguan people which in 1979 overthrew by force the Somoza dictatorship and with the social rebellion of April is prepared to get rid of, this time peacefully, another totalitarian regime, the dictatorship of the Ortega-Murillo family.