Yerling Aguilera and Jessica Cisneros are two of the spokespersons of the Nicaraguan International Solidarity Caravan in Spain. They arrived with a small suitcase and round-trip tickets. The approval of an antiterrorist law and the detention of two prominent activists —merchant leader Irlanda Jerez and the peasant leader Merardo Mairena—, brought them to Madrid so they could apply for political asylum.
Read MoreLess than 24 hours after the violent assault and looting of the newsrooms of the communication media outlets Confidencial and Esta Semana, the Ortega Police have occupied the facilities, ordering the removal of the security guards and installing half a dozen armed policemen inside the building, which was still disorderly and destroyed after the first attack.
Read MoreThe recent cancellation of the legal status of 9 Nicaraguan NGOs* has nothing to do with legality. An NGO like the Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), legally constituted and acting responsibly for 28 years can’t be suddenly annulled from one day to the next.
Read MoreThe pretense given to withdraw the legal status of the Managua based Communication Research Center (CINCO) is the culmination of a long persecution that began a decade ago with the return of Daniel Ortega to power. The following is CINCO’S pronouncement issued on December 13th.
Read MoreSome 400 business leaders met on Wednesday at the headquarters of INCAE in Managua to emphasize that the country continues on a steady course to a debacle, if a political agreement is not reached soon that allows the recovery of governability to then pass on to see how to resolve the economy.
Read MoreNo one in Nicaragua is unaware of the pseudo-mystical treatises of co-dictator Rosario Murillo, occurring at the margins of the political and ideological battles in the media and amid the dictatorship’s repressive actions with their dark consequences.
Read MoreIn a week in which we are commemorating the adoption 70 years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights around the world, the abrupt revocation yesterday by the Nicaraguan National Assembly of the legal status of respected human rights organizations fills us with the greatest concern.
Read MoreHours after ordering the police attack and pillaging against several Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations, Ortega appeared in Havana where he will receive the support of his allies from Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Read MoreOn a night that recalled the style of the Nazi attacks known as “The Night of the Broken Glass” of 1938, the Nicaraguan Police assaulted and looted in simultaneous raids on numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to which the Parliament had canceled their legal operating permits in recent days.
Read MoreThe cancellation of the legal non-profit status for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) on Wednesday, December 12 took the members of that organization by surprise. Those who were at the organization’s head offices turned on the live broadcast of the legislative session to follow the discussion in Parliament.
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