The 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.
Read MoreEver since I graduated from the university, I dreamed about leaving the country. At least, that’s what I thought. I’d planned to apply for scholarships and leave for another country, because many people told me that my country was small and I needed to see the world.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega decided to skip the UN General Assembly in New York but sent his work horse foreign minister, Denis Moncada, to give his version of recent events in Nicaragua, blaming the United States and terrorists disguised as peaceful protestors for the 5+ months of unrest in the Central American country.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s police detained today the documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, Carl David Goette-Luciak, who covers the protests in Nicaragua. Threats against Goette, of US and Austrian citizenship, were reported here in recent days.
Read MoreAlthough Nicaragua’s Central Bank has not yet publicly acknowledged it, the country will fall formally in recession as of today, October first, when two consecutive quarters are completed without the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showing signs of growth.
Read MoreThe young girl with the mischievous smile became the first political prisoner to be absolved by the regime of President Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, following 75 days of illegal detention. Elsa was freed last Thursday, September 27, by order of the District Attorney’s office.
Read MoreThe government of Daniel Ortega threatened the private sector because it pretends that the problem in Nicaragua is economic and not political, says Roger Arteaga, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham-Nicaragua). He points out that this attitude of the government “only achieves that the country’s economic situation worsens.”
Read MoreDiscrediting as a political weapon does not need any proof or reasoning. Just put a label, repeat it a thousand times and appeal to lower passions. Surely the immediacy, massiveness and low transparency of social networks contributes to a wider dissemination, but this phenomenon is as old as humanity.
Read MoreA poem by Gioconda Belli, dedicated to the political prisoners of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAfter repressing, murdering, persecuting and imprisoning hundreds of citizens, the Ortega regime intends to silence the civic protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, through a police order that threatens to prosecute individuals and organizations that call any demonstration of civic protest, which are now declared “illegal”.
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