University leader Edwin Carcache Davile prayed an Our Father and a Hail Mary. The cameras of the official media outlets focused on him all the time. Although guarded by several officers armed with AK47, he was not intimidated, and neither were the rest of the accused in the courtroom. They sang the National Anthem and at the end Carcache cried out a “be strong Nicaragua.”
Read MoreNicaragua’s April uprising, largely spearheaded by university students, can be understood by comparing it to past student protests against the first two Somozas. As befits any historical comparison, there are differences that come to the fore.
Read MoreXiamara Diaz juggles her resources in order to keep afloat her restaurant, the Garden Café, located in Granada. This city, the colonial jewel of Nicaragua, has suffered a severe economic blow due to the political crisis. Diaz has had to adjust to the new reality of a country that’s no longer receiving foreign tourists, and in addition has seen a downturn in local consumption.
Read MoreDuring part of his life, Nicaragua was one of the obsessions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Nobel Prize Winner not only saw himself narrating the Assault to the National Palace by the Sandinista guerrilla, but was also involved with the Sandinista Revolution in the eighties. Thirty-nine years after the revolutionary victory, what is happening in that volcanic country located in the waist of Latin America?
Read MoreDifferent social sectors that oppose Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship, including the Civic Alliance and the Articulation of Social Movements, have decided to join forces and create a “common front” called “Blue and White National Unity”, putting aside their differences about how to tackle the current socio-political crisis that has taken over the country.
Read MoreDuring the crisis, at least five have fallen victim to government repression. However, this isn’t a new form of repression for Ortega’s government, it is a long-standing practice which began when Daniel Ortega came into office in 2007. This is a recounting of the most recent foreign journalists’ cases, since the civic rebellion began in April.
Read MoreExperts use the word “recession” for “a state of decrease in economic activity over a period of time,” but for the Nicaraguans that suffer its effects, it’s nothing less than a disaster that depresses their businesses, cuts their income and puts the welfare of their families at risk.
Read MoreSome students attended classes forced by their parents or for fear of reprisals. Others have declared themselves in student
Read MoreBoth women shared the same university halls, they both took to the streets ever since the first day of protests in Managua in April; by a quirk of fate, they are both now working in the struggle for university independence, justice, human rights and real democracy in Nicaragua.
Read MoreAs a result of their madness, fear and self-deception, they are trying to suppress our most elementary civil liberties, crumpling—as when throwing a paper in the toilet—the Nicaraguan Constitution. The Ortega-Murillo government continues to impose a de facto police state.
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