The wife of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and vice president of the country, Rosario Murillo, announced this week that they have begun to develop a “blessing campaign” in those places “where there was conflict” in the framework of the protests against the dictatorship, which started in April 2018.
Read MoreRafael Solis, magistrate on the Nicaraguan Supreme Court and loyal political operator in the judicial system for Daniel Ortega, resigned his position within that State power, as well as his membership in the Sandinista Front (FSLN). Solis made his startling announcement in a letter addressed to Ortega, Murillo, and the president of the National Assembly, Gustavo Porras.
Read MoreImmigration authorities in the United States deported 63 Nicaraguans on Wednesday, some of whom spent months in detention in the United States awaiting their return, the Nicaraguan Executive reported through official media.
Read MoreOrtega and Murillo are literally following a script that we have seen staged before in Havana and Caracas. Opponents and critics of authoritarianism, according to them, “conspire in favor of terrorism.” To publicly question the actions of the Government is to ally with “Yankee imperialism” and the internal enemies of something that the Government continues calling the “Sandinista Revolution”.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan police under orders of Daniel Ortega continue to invade the homes of political opponents. This Monday, the residence of ex-guerrilla commander Dora Maria Tellez was illegally searched by Ortega’s Police, supposedly looking for weapons that they did not find.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Ministry of Energy and Mining plans to distribute solar panels as a benefit to colonists within the nucleus of the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. The distribution would be through an initiative that forms part of the “renewable energy development project for the rural areas,” using funds from South Korea.
Read MoreEdgard Parrales was a priest and is a lawyer. He is 76 years old and knows Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega well. In the eighties, he was a Sandinista Government Ambassador to the OAS and also held other public posts with the same government.
Read MoreWhat’s known about that day is that she was at the station, together with station directors Miguel Mora and Veronica Chavez, most likely editing or planning the next day’s programming. Around 9 pm, the channel’s programming was abruptly cut to insert a live denunciation. “We have breaking news! There are riot police trying to enter the site of 100% Noticias,”
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet this week to address the situation in Venezuela (Jan. 10) and Nicaragua (Jan. 11). In any vote, the 15 countries that make up the Caribbean Community (Caricom) would have an important weight.
Read MoreThrough the smoke of the rebellion in April, which the Government of Ortega-Murillo went “all out” to squash, a friend asked me: What is this regime like after the repression? Ortega may not resemble Stalin, but the repression and punishments of these last eight months have had the same result and have been executed with the same rage as the Stalinist purges.
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