There was a time, the time I come from, when being a Sandinista meant putting your life on the line. It was a time when the FSLN was a clandestine organization, and belonging to it was a secret that only you knew: a time where Somoza proclaimed, “Sandinista seen, Sandinista dead”. Many of our companeros died in those years when the FSLN was being shaped.
Read MoreThe moments that have marked the civic protests that began since April will remain immortalized in the Memory Lane and within the Nicaragua and Central America History Institute (IHNCA in Spanish), of the Central American University (UCA). They are faithful witnesses of the brutal repression perpetrated starting seven months ago by the Government of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreProbably, many Nicaraguans from younger generations ignore that until a few decades ago most of the Latin American countries were governed by military dictatorships, sustained by a geopolitical concept called “national security doctrine.” Each one of these societies tried to close the wounds provoked by such dictatorships however…
Read More“In this new phase of repression in Nicaragua,” Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights notes: “There are no guarantees for journalism. Until that happens, journalists will continue to do their job with a lot of courage, and in a kind of conditional freedom: at any moment they can be attacked or detained.”
Read MoreLigia Gomez: “The truth is, I’m torn between two emotions. First, I feel liberated, because I’m me and I can say what I feel and think, and I can respond to my commitment with society. I studied and I got my education and I’ve dedicated my whole life to working against inequality.”
Read MoreThe orders that Rosario Murillo, acting as the FSLN’s national chief, sent to her political secretaries in public institutions of Managua during the first days of the April rebellion, reveal the strategy with which the government tried to deal with the social discontent that exploded on April 18th.
Read MoreThe Nicaragua Network of Women against Violence announced today that it will march on November 25 in the capital, Managua, despite the prohibition of any type of protest by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The march will be held on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Read More“At this juncture how can I not ask myself if it was worth it to have given over my youth and a large part of my life to a revolution that I saw as the most beautiful thing that could possibly happen to me? The horror of the events that have occurred in Nicaragua since April 18th, when a citizen protest was violently repressed, doesn’t cease to astonish me.
Read MoreThe Mothers of April Association, made up of mothers and relatives of the victims of the police and paramilitary repression of the protests against the Government of Daniel Ortega, demand that those responsible for these deaths be tried for crimes against humanity.
Read MoreThe Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts demanded that before proposing any State policy that seeks “reconciliation,” the Government of Ortega and Rosario Murillo, should implement a “truth process” with the “recognition of responsibilities, the punishment to those accountable before justice, provide reparation of the victims and make the institutional reforms necessary to restore the confidence of citizens in the institutions of the State.”
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