“You know you’re lying,” Vilma Nunez told the National Police the day after they accused her and Gonzalo Carrion, legal advisor for the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), of manipulating and bribing the survivors of the fire that killed six members of a family in a Managua neighborhood.
Read MoreNicaraguan Police, under the orders of commander Daniel Ortega, arrived Friday night at the 100% Noticias TV facilities in Managua, broke in, destroyed the equipment and kidnapped the directors Miguel Mora and Veronica Chávez, as well as the press chief, Lucia Pineda.
Read MoreCensorship leaves citizens blind and at the mercy of their rulers. The recent assaults of President Daniel Ortega against the communications media represented by Confidencial and Esta Semana are a deliberate attack on freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
Read MoreWith Trump’s signature the legislation takes effect, which will bring individual sanctions for the Ortega/Murillo regime’s representatives, as well as conditioning loans to the Government by international financial institutions such as the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Read MoreThis week’s expulsion of human rights observers and the crackdown on media in Nicaragua puts the country’s civil society at serious risk, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned Friday. “There are now virtually no functioning independent human rights bodies left in Nicaragua,” noted Bachelet in a statement that was issued in Geneva.
Read MoreCarlos Fernando Chamorro knew it. Or, at least, he suspected it: “With Daniel, one is always wrong. The most common mistake is to underestimate him, because in the end he always gets something out of any situation. We do not know what will happen this time, he has it difficult, but we must be alert, very alert.”
Read MorePrinciples aren’t static or unwavering, just like truth isn’t an obligation of faith. Everything is moving and constantly changing, especially in a global society that swiftly imposes itself. Questioning is the generator of scientific, progressive and revolutionary though. Blindly following a dogma, without taking contextual factors into account, leads to backward attitudes.
Read MoreThe journalist and director of “Confidencial” and the “Esta Semana” TV program, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, reacted to the assault and illegal takeover of his offices, by saying that all Nicaraguans are exposed to the dictatorship fabricating charges to censor them or turn them into political prisoners. However, he maintained that even without space for a newsroom, the media outlets he directs will continue reporting.
Read MoreEight months ago, began the epic struggle of the incredible Nicaraguan people which in 1979 overthrew by force the Somoza dictatorship and with the social rebellion of April is prepared to get rid of, this time peacefully, another totalitarian regime, the dictatorship of the Ortega-Murillo family.
Read MoreAfter canceling the legal status or forcing into exile several Nicaraguan Human Rights organizations, the last of the remaining international human rights organizations was expelled from the country on Wednesday.
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