“Why are you marching?” “Who is paying you?” “Who sends you?” These and other similar questions are part of the interrogation to which we were subjected, in the cells of the El Chipote interrogation prison, noted the protesters illegally detained by the National Police, last Sunday in Managua.
Read MoreThe wave of repression underscores the failure of Ortega’s attempt to present himself as a victim and as someone who respects human rights and the law, in the many interviews he gave to the international press. Ortega knows that people do not believe him.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States (OAS) will discuss Nicaragua once again, today, during a special meeting of the Permanent Council, according to an announcement made Thursday in Washington. It can be watched live starting at 10:00 a.m. (ET) at http://www.oas.org/es/council.
Read MoreLeslie Briceno was convinced that she was going to die. What she feared most wasn’t death itself, but the life that her eight-year-old son would have without her. She wept with frustration and impotence in her hospital bed, where there were dozens of doctors but no one did anything to help her. She thought about her dreams and the illusions she’d had a week ago…
Read MoreThe country is at the mercy of currents and winds, without any government. And, the lack of a course is leading us to a disaster in a hurricane-type environment. Worse yet, it is going adrift with a maniac who, armed to the teeth, prevents anyone from reaching the helm or throwing the anchor, and desperately breaks the official compass that informed the data from the Central Bank.
Read MoreThe opposition movement known as the “Blue and White National Unity” has called for a three-day consumer boycott beginning Wednesday, October 17, and an “energy strike” of one hour a day that would be extended indefinitely. Both actions are in protest against the “cruel repression” of Daniel Ortega’s government.
Read MoreIn the early morning of April 20, 2018, Brenda Gutierrez realized that something had changed in her son, Rodrigo Espinoza. She caught him creeping into the house, and as soon as he saw her, he said brusquely: “I only came so you’d be at peace. Tomorrow, I’m leaving early and I don’t know if I’ll be back.”
Read More“It is an aberration that the government of President Daniel Ortega makes arbitrary use of the criminal justice system to silence those who speak out against him,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty’s director for the Americas. “The Government is wrong if it believes that critical thinking and the demand for rights and indignation can be imprisoned.”
Read MoreThe forty people who were arrested Sunday by Nicaraguan police forces for protesting against Daniel Ortega’s government have been released, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) announced on Monday. Ortega’s government has locked up over 400 political prisoners, many already charged with fabricated crimes of terrorism and organized crime, notes Cenidh.
Read MoreCarlos admits he’s on the wrong side, and he repeats this realization five times during our conversation. ”I know I’m on the wrong side: I know it, and my wife knows it. It makes me ashamed,” he states. “I felt bad being in that plaza, and holding up a flag bathed in blood,” he adds.
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