Without 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.
Read MoreLopez Obrador himself hasn’t offered a lot in terms of explaining what his international politics might look like. On Monday morning, January 14, during a press conference with the national media in the National Palace, he reaffirmed his campaign position that he’d maintain a policy of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.
Read MoreHansell Vasquez liked to dream of owning a big company. He saw himself leading it and giving his family the comforts that they had once lacked. He made several start-up attempts. His mother, Lilliam Ruiz, thinks about him every day. At times she finds herself thinking that it’s all a lie, that her son isn’t in prison, that he’s just gone on a trip, camera in hand, to make some videos…
Read MoreMorales wants to install a dictatorial power opposing other powers of the State (the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor’s Office), Ortega has a consolidated dictatorship, although tottering. Their modus operandi unite them, above and below their supposed ideological differences.
Read MoreThe next stage of the struggle in Nicaragua must lead to defining an organization that can bind together and legitimize the self-organized movement; a body that succeeds in uniting us around proposals and ideals that move away from the failures that we’ve experienced.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega hopes that Russia can play an important role in sustaining his government under pressure internationally from most of the Americas and the European Union. Ortega’s regime is accused of horrendous human rights violations and faces a deflating Nicaraguan economy approaching free-fall under the weight of multiple sanctions.
Read MoreThe resignation of Rafael Solis to his high office in the Nicaraguan Supreme Court, and also to his militancy in the Sandinista Front, shook the country from the very bases of the governing party, among whom many still resist to believe that one of the most pragmatic and loyal voices within the inner circle of the dictator Daniel Ortega has abandoned ship.
Read MoreHuman rights defenders and activists, along with relatives of political prisoners in Nicaragua said that the statements made this week by former Supreme Court Justice Rafael Solís should have the immediate effect of invalidating the trials carried out by the Ortega-Murillo regime against political prisoners and ordering their release.
Read MoreRafael Solis’ resignation is the most important statement that’s been produced up until now from the regime’s functionaries, not only because he’s a Magistrate on Nicaragua’s Supreme Court, but also because he’s been a figure very close to the inner circle of power that surrounds the Ortega-Murillo regime.
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