Nicaragua will never be the same after the events that shook the country starting in April. The fierce, deadly government repression against the non-violent civic rebellion has set the country back decades as far as security, politically, economically and in its social fabric. The nightmare continues on as we enter 2019.
Read MoreThis year I have shed so many tears, both for acquaintances and for strangers. This year I have also seen how little Nicaragua seems to mean to the rest of the world, even as I saw demonstrations of solidarity take place in hundreds of places across the globe.
Read MoreThe dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is set to launch a new “national defense policy” for 2019, which includes increasing the recruitment of more police officers and cutting 30% of the payroll of different ministries of the State and autonomous entities, according to a working document attributed to Vice President Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThere are earthquakes that follow other earthquakes. Today in Nicaragua, we’re not living through a movement of the earth as in 1972, but another kind of tremor has left families equally in mourning, buildings shuttered, lives splintered, children left orphaned.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan economy was a doll with feet of clay, which depended on the understanding between the private and the public sectors to function. However, the government repression against the civic protests dynamited that privileged relationship, revealing the fragility of the national economy, says economist Jose Luis Medal, interviewed on the program “Esta Semana”.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan duo Nina and Sebastian recently debuted their musical homage “Navidad sin vos” [Xmas without you] dedicated to all those killed during the protests that began in April against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) called the 34-member countries for an extraordinary meeting on the crisis in Nicaragua for this Thursday, December 27. This meeting follows a devastating report from the mission of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Read More“It is possible that things may get worse before they get better. This regime does not want to negotiate,” says Alejandro Bendana, who hopes that this will be understood soon by some countries that still support or remain silent in the face of Ortega’s arbitrariness. The ex-diplomat believes that pressure is necessary in order to “effectively force a change whether Ortega wants it or not.”
Read MoreLevis Artola, 21, only one and a half meters tall, law student and the “foreign minister” of the occupation at the UNAN Managua university, took the microphone firmly and spoke without hesitation to the excited mass of students in front of the Central American University…
Read MoreUntil April, 2018,, Nicaragua enjoyed the benefits of an undeserved reputation as a haven of peace. The indicators of violence provided by the Police -probably skewed-, but of widespread credibility-, placed Nicaragua slightly above Costa Rica and many homicides below its neighbors to the north. As for the interests of the USA, Nicaragua was a country of little importance.
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