Nicaragua

Land Takeovers Further Muddy the Panorama in Troubled Nicaragua

The assault on private property extends across eight departments in the country. According to complaints received by the Nicaraguan Union of Agricultural Producers (UPANIC), more than 5,000 hectares of rural and urban lands are currently in the hands of armed groups that have seized them with the government’s consent.

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Nicaraguans in USA Promote “Blood Diamonds” Campaign

A group of Nicaraguans in the United States began a campaign to demand US investment firms to stop administering the Nicaraguan Army´s pension fund, which they say “provided war weapons to irregular armed forces and, in many cases, have joined these irregular forces in killing civilians.”

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Three Brothers Jailed for Singing Out against the Ortega Regime

Every time she looks at the photo of her only three sons, crowded into the back of a Police pick-up truck, Juana de la Rosa Lesage Guadamuz begins to cry. She cries because her boys are still prisoners. She cries because she misses them. She cries because she recalls the morning of July 11 when they were taken away.

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Nicaraguan diaspora meets to organize leadership against Ortega

The first meeting of Nicaraguan leaders abroad, in which some of those forced into exile because of Ortega’s repression will participate, takes place this weekend in the United States, with the participation of academic and researcher Felix Maradiaga, human rights defender Alvaro Leiva and university leader Lesther Aleman.

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