“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.”
Read MoreThe Prosecution accused rural leaders Medardo Mairena, Pedro Mena, Luis Pineda Icabalceta and Silvio Saul Pineda of receiving financing from the Nicaraguan organization “Hagamos Democracy” [Let’s make democracy] “to alter the public order at the roadblocks with industrial and hand-crafted arms.”
Read MoreGuatemala “scared” Daniel Ortega. The commander cancelled at the last minute his announced participation in the XXVI Ibero-American Summit, after several Nicaraguan and Guatemalan citizens indicated that they would protest the presence of the dictator at the meeting, which took place in Antigua, Guatemala on November 15-16.
Read MoreCarlos Silva Rodriguez shed tears every day during the heat of the protests, when reading the news about those the regime had killed. Today, the athlete is the first person to be accused of toppling one of First Lady/VP Murillo’s metal “trees of life”.
Read MorePromerica Financial Corporation, majority shareholder of Banpro [the largest bank in Nicaragua], announced the launching of an international issue of 200 million dollars in six-year bonds, “documented under New York law, and registered on the Luxemburg Stock Exchange,” informed the financial group.
Read MoreNicaragua’s embattled president Daniel Ortega was scheduled to arrive Thursday for the two-day Ibero-American Summit in Antigua, Guatemala. At first, he postponed the trip for Friday, but then it was announced this afternoon that he will cancel altogether.
Read MoreDozens of Nicaraguan organizations and groups abroad gathered in Washington over the weekend declaring themselves in favor of advanced general elections, at the latest by mid-2019, to resolve the crisis that the country has experienced for nearly seven months.
Read MoreNicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, is scheduled to arrive in Guatemala tomorrow to attend the XXVI Ibero-American Summit in Antigua on Thursday and Friday, where protests have been announced against him and diplomatic tensions could arise from his international repudiation.
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