Around midnight on Thursday, the offices of CONFIDENCIAL, where the writing of an online daily newspaper, weekly magazine and the television programs Esta Semana and Esta Noche are produced, were illegally and violently assaulted by officers of the National Police, loyal to the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreFaced with the worsening political, social and economic crisis, the private sector demanded on Wednesday that Daniel Ortega accept dialogue to promote political reforms, including to convene fair and transparent early elections with a new Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). “Without a political agreement, there is no solution to the (national) crisis,” stated the country’s top business leaders.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Parliament, controlled by the ruling Sandinista Front leader Daniel Ortega, today withdrew the legal status of five more non-governmental organizations (NGOs) considered critical of the leader, raising the total to nine in recent days.
Read More“I have always talked about a complicit silence. However, from the perspective of military ethics, the Army has an obligation to speak out. At least say: ‘Stop the massacre, the illegal arrests, the tortures,’ and tell that to the regime, says defense and national security expert Roberto Cajina.
Read More“If you could imagine how the life of a migrant is, who has to hide from immigration to not be expelled, or be taken prisoner, that is how I have to hide so they don’t kidnap me here in Nicaragua,” says “Veneno”. He is 24, and remains in hiding. For him this has been the price to pay for protesting against the regime of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreA week ago, Wells Fargo Bank informed the four banks with which it maintains relations in Nicaragua—BAC, BANPRO, LAFISE and FICOHSA—that within a month it would withdraw from the country, and therefore could not continue to provide the correspondent service, revealed to Confidencial an international financial source.
Read MoreIn an almost unheard-of unanimous vote in these time of polarization, the US House of Representatives voted 435-0 to approve the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (Nica Act), now one step away from becoming law. All that’s missing is the signature of President Donald Trump, expected to come in the coming days, if not hours, for the sanctions come into force.
Read MoreIf Olesia Munoz weren’t shut up in the La Esperanza women’s prison, together with a dozen other political prisoners, her soprano voice would be resonating in her native city of Niquinohomo, as part of the Nicaraguan celebration known as La Purisima. Her sister, Tania, would be selling bread, as she did before, from a stall in the town market. But both are in jail, accused of terrorism.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will receive on December 12th the third report of the Working Group formed by that organization to mediate the social and political crisis in Nicaragua. There job has been hampered because the regime of Daniel Ortega has not allowed them to enter to the country.
Read MoreOne day after maintaining its ban on all civic protest in Nicaragua, the first lady, vice president and coordinator and spokesperson for the government of her husband, Daniel Ortega, held a commemoration related to International Human Rights Day celebrated around the globe on December 10th.
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