During part of his life, Nicaragua was one of the obsessions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Nobel Prize Winner not only saw himself narrating the Assault to the National Palace by the Sandinista guerrilla, but was also involved with the Sandinista Revolution in the eighties. Thirty-nine years after the revolutionary victory, what is happening in that volcanic country located in the waist of Latin America?
Read MoreDifferent social sectors that oppose Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship, including the Civic Alliance and the Articulation of Social Movements, have decided to join forces and create a “common front” called “Blue and White National Unity”, putting aside their differences about how to tackle the current socio-political crisis that has taken over the country.
Read MoreDuring the crisis, at least five have fallen victim to government repression. However, this isn’t a new form of repression for Ortega’s government, it is a long-standing practice which began when Daniel Ortega came into office in 2007. This is a recounting of the most recent foreign journalists’ cases, since the civic rebellion began in April.
Read MoreExperts use the word “recession” for “a state of decrease in economic activity over a period of time,” but for the Nicaraguans that suffer its effects, it’s nothing less than a disaster that depresses their businesses, cuts their income and puts the welfare of their families at risk.
Read MoreSome students attended classes forced by their parents or for fear of reprisals. Others have declared themselves in student
Read MoreBoth women shared the same university halls, they both took to the streets ever since the first day of protests in Managua in April; by a quirk of fate, they are both now working in the struggle for university independence, justice, human rights and real democracy in Nicaragua.
Read MoreAs a result of their madness, fear and self-deception, they are trying to suppress our most elementary civil liberties, crumpling—as when throwing a paper in the toilet—the Nicaraguan Constitution. The Ortega-Murillo government continues to impose a de facto police state.
Read MoreZoilamerica Narvaez Murillo, the stepdaughter of President Daniel Ortega, whom in 1998 she accused of 19 years of abuse and rape, said today that the president clings to power “to feel he’s the leader and messiah” and that he intends to convert Nicaragua “into a jail.”
Read MoreThe Austrian-US documentary filmmaker, Carl David Goette-Luciak, was taken from his home on Monday morning in the Colonia Centroamerica neighborhood of Managua. They put him in a patrol car, threatened him with torture and took him to the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, where he was interrogated and later deported on flight TA397 to El Salvador.
Read MoreThe Chamorro Barrios family informs the public that our beloved mother and former president of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, suffered a stroke at dawn on Monday, October first. She is in the intensive care ward of the Vivan Pellas Hospital in Managua.
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