The OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, denounced on Friday the alleged participation of Cuban citizens in the violation of human rights in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Almagro delivered the opening address of a conference on human rights in Cuba at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington.
Read MoreCosta Rican immigration authorities reported to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that through September some 52,000 Nicraguans had entered the country, as they flee persecution and the crisis in their country. By December, the number has continued to rise and includes scores of doctors and teachers dismissed from their jobs.
Read More“The passivity of your institution given the significance of the violent presence of irregular armed groups in the country, groups that have practically acted as an occupation force, surprised the country, since clearly you should be bound by the dictates of the Constitution,” the letter notes.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega has achieved what neither Putin, nor climate change, nor China, nor the immigration problem, nor Maduro nor Syria could do: he inspired nothing more and nothing less than the adoption of a bipartisan consensus between the US Republican and Democratic parties regarding his regime.
Read MoreElis Leonidovna Gonn, 24, and supposedly of Russian origin, was identified by the National Police as responsible for the attack with sulfuric acid against priest Mario Guevara, on Wednesday afternoon in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, when he offered religious services. The motives of the attack have not yet been revealed.
Read MoreThe bilateral and multilateral sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and the US Senate against Ortega’s regime, which include a sanction against the First Lady and VP Rosario Murillo, represent—in the opinion of the seasoned Latin American expert Richard Feinberg, “a strong, exceptional message,” so that Ortega “enters into negotiations with the people of Nicaragua.”
Read MoreDaniel Ortega says nothing about the United States’ sanctions against his government and against his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo. Not a phrase, not a word has crossed his lips: no reference to the topic at all. He used the opportunity to attack his brother, former Army Chief Humberto Ortega, and the Catholic bishops.
Read MoreNestor Moncada Lau, known as Chema, is the guardian who watches over the FSLN General Secretary, Daniel Ortega. This lawyer and experienced former official of the Ministry of the Interior’s State Security has strong ties of loyalty to Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThe United States infiltrated the inner circle of the presidential couple. With the sanction to Nestor Moncada Lau (“Chema”), Ortega’s private secretary, and liaison to the Police, paramilitary groups and intelligence activities, they have shown President Daniel Ortega that they know what is going on in the political kitchen of El Carmen bunker.
Read MoreUpon hearing that the members of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN) in Matagalpa would support Daniel Ortega’s government, despite three days of protests during which more than twenty people had already died, Dilon Zeledon got up from his chair and said: “I disagree! We owe our presence here to the students. How are we going to leave them in the lurch?”
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