Nicaragua is now under an undeclared state of siege where independent media and journalists are under constant attack from the Ortega government and its Police and paramilitary forces. The following letter was issued by the international Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday.
Read MoreGiven the time elapsed and the magnitude of the crimes of the Ortega regime, described in the report of the GIEI, comments are heard in different environments that we are heading towards the situation of Venezuela, a country in which the protests petered out in spite of the growing crisis, and Maduro is getting ready to “assume” a new 6-year presidential term after staging an electoral circus.
Read MoreDespite claims by the Trump administration that it considers the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrio a brutal dictatorship and calling it a threat to US National Security, in practice the administration has found a way to help Ortega, who was a stable ally of the US for over a decade.
Read MoreWhile the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continue to maintain that everything is back to normal in Nicaragua and the “coup mongers” are defeated, the Nicaraguan Police continue to be trained in military tactics for a possible civil war. The preparations take place after over eight months of crisis caused by the government repression.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Police captured at least four people in Masaya on the afternoon of January 3, following a strong deployment of riot police and paramilitary forces. Residents of that city affirmed that the heavily armed men of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo broke into a number of homes and stole the owner’s belongings.
Read MoreI recently reread a story that shows how the current tragedy in Nicaragua has been brewing for many years. The news refers to the repression unleashed against farmers opposed to the infamous Canal Law 840, which for them, and in the light of any minimal intelligence, is just the legal veil with which the regime sought to disguise the plundering of the country’s natural resources and betray its much-vaunted nationalism.
Read MoreBecause they did not have the cooperation of the State to do their investigations the GIEI approached experts in network analysis, who studied more than three million tweets and more than 10,000 videos available on networks, which were the tools used by protesters to denounce the human rights violations and the violence unleashed by the State.
Read MoreThe emergency meeting had been requested by Luis Almagro, OAS General Secretary, to “hold a collective consideration of the situation and adopt the decisions determined to be convenient,” with respect to applying the Inter-American Democratic Charter to Nicaragua.
Read MoreMy brother Ricardo tells me that some 70% of those imprisoned come from Sandinista roots, and probably the same thing is true of the murdered. That’s not really strange, according to my thinking, because true Sandinismo taught us to fight against injustices, and nothing is more unjust and criminal than the regime of Ortega and Murillo, that we’re still enduring.
Read MoreOn December 31, 2018, while part of Nicaragua celebrated the end of the year, political prisoners from the “La Modelo” prison, in Tipitapa, were beaten and tortured physically and psychologically. It happened at 11:30 pm, when a group of students began to sing “I will miss you” (a song by the band ‘Tercer Cielo’) and then the National Anthem.
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