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The Totalitarianism We’re Suffering in Nicaragua

Totalitarianism has penetrated our lives in the form of fear, but we mustn’t ignore the forms of resistance thousands are practicing.

“Get ready to leave, especially if you’re criminals,” threatened the Republican candidate for the US presidency.

It’s been over 40 years since Hungarian-American attorney Reed Brody, known as the “dictator hunter,” first began his international career.

Her family has repeatedly visited the prison system, asking about her, but they are always told that “she’s not here.”

In Nicaragua, achieving a reconciliation will be the job of the opposition to implement the processes of transitional justice.

The ex-combatant was released and exiled to Guatemala along with 134 political prisoners after spending over a year in illegal detention.

“We cannot do anything,” Ortega regime officials at the Nicaraguan consulate in the United States told Reyes in response to his inquiries.

The CNE still hasn’t published the results of the 30,206 automated tally sheets from July 28, normally done withing 48 hours at most.

The released political prisoners know that other victims of injustice continue in the terrible condition of the Nicaraguan jails.

“Criminalization of press freedom and expression” has led to Nicaraguan journalism being done only “from exile”, notes Carlos F. Chamorro.