Nicaragua

Police Presence in Managua Shopping Centers Rejected

The Managua shopping center Galerias Santo Domingo explained in a statement that “it has not requested a police presence” in its facilities after the extensive police deployment in this mall last weekend caused “concern and fear to its visitors, tenants and employees.”

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Nicaragua Now Under Undeclared State of Siege

Under the orders of president Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan police revealed today that they will mobilize 15,000 officers in a “special security plan” and warned that they will not “ask anyone’s permission” to enter shopping centers that have been the scene of opposition protests.

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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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