Zoilamerica Narvaez Murillo, the stepdaughter of President Daniel Ortega, whom in 1998 she accused of 19 years of abuse and rape, said today that the president clings to power “to feel he’s the leader and messiah” and that he intends to convert Nicaragua “into a jail.”
Read MoreThe Austrian-US documentary filmmaker, Carl David Goette-Luciak, was taken from his home on Monday morning in the Colonia Centroamerica neighborhood of Managua. They put him in a patrol car, threatened him with torture and took him to the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, where he was interrogated and later deported on flight TA397 to El Salvador.
Read MoreThe Chamorro Barrios family informs the public that our beloved mother and former president of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, suffered a stroke at dawn on Monday, October first. She is in the intensive care ward of the Vivan Pellas Hospital in Managua.
Read MoreEver since I graduated from the university, I dreamed about leaving the country. At least, that’s what I thought. I’d planned to apply for scholarships and leave for another country, because many people told me that my country was small and I needed to see the world.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega decided to skip the UN General Assembly in New York but sent his work horse foreign minister, Denis Moncada, to give his version of recent events in Nicaragua, blaming the United States and terrorists disguised as peaceful protestors for the 5+ months of unrest in the Central American country.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s police detained today the documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, Carl David Goette-Luciak, who covers the protests in Nicaragua. Threats against Goette, of US and Austrian citizenship, were reported here in recent days.
Read MoreAlthough Nicaragua’s Central Bank has not yet publicly acknowledged it, the country will fall formally in recession as of today, October first, when two consecutive quarters are completed without the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showing signs of growth.
Read MoreThe young girl with the mischievous smile became the first political prisoner to be absolved by the regime of President Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, following 75 days of illegal detention. Elsa was freed last Thursday, September 27, by order of the District Attorney’s office.
Read MoreThe government of Daniel Ortega threatened the private sector because it pretends that the problem in Nicaragua is economic and not political, says Roger Arteaga, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham-Nicaragua). He points out that this attitude of the government “only achieves that the country’s economic situation worsens.”
Read MoreDiscrediting as a political weapon does not need any proof or reasoning. Just put a label, repeat it a thousand times and appeal to lower passions. Surely the immediacy, massiveness and low transparency of social networks contributes to a wider dissemination, but this phenomenon is as old as humanity.
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