Dozens 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.
Read MoreThe 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.”
Read MoreUnder 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.
Read MoreThe serious human rights violations committed by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the people of Nicaragua were denounced before the International Criminal Court of the Hague, by American Fraternity, a group of Nicaraguans based in the United States.
Read MoreThe regime of Daniel Ortega accused non-governmental organizations in the United States and the European Union of being accomplices in the “crimes” that took place in the context of protests against the government, which broke out in mid-April, leaving more than 300 dead.
Read MoreIn a new show of the government proclaimed “normality” of peace, love and reconciliation in Nicaragua, Elsa Valle, 19 and her 17-year-old sister Rebecca, were kidnapped this morning by the Ortega police when they were on the outside of a Managua Court complex.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAt least 420 violations of press freedom were registered in Nicaragua in the first six months of the socio-political crisis unleashed by the repression of citizen protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, informed the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation.
Read MoreFor Julio Cesar Espinoza, dying has never been an option. He’s young, with a wife and three sons, and five years ago he left a job he hated as a machine operator in the free trade zone, to achieve his dream of joining the police force. All was going well for him: he was finishing his high school diploma and next year he was due for a promotion.
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