Over the last three weeks, I’ve been able to confirm with my own eyes the true dimension of what’s happening in Nicaragua. It’s a lot more terrible than what we see on the news. I’ve seen the sorrow in the eyes of former guerrilla fighters who’ve had to watch yet another dictator steal the revolutionary dream and betray its most basic principles.
Read MoreThe small business leader and dentist Irlanda Jerez has been for 54 days in an eight by four meters’ cell, in the “La Esperanza” women’s prison along with nine other prisoners of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime. Despite the hardships, the spirit of this leader remains “unbreakable”, according to her relatives.
Read MoreNicaraguan president Daniel Ortega’s abuses have been widely condemned by international human rights organizations including the OAS and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. One place where they viewed the government’s new downward spiral as “more of the same” was Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast region. Let me explain why.
Read MoreIn addition to the hundreds of dead, the repression from Daniel Ortega’s regime has left innumerable cases of abductions, disappearances and tortures. The testimonies of Ricardo Gutierrez, Xavier Mojica and “Karla” offer clear examples of the scope of the human rights violations and the vulnerability of the entire Nicaraguan population.
Read MoreTaking innocent citizens to trial and sentencing them for crimes committed by the government’s thugs is further proof of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship’s guilt. Judges and magistrates are merciless tools of the dictatorship’s excesses when it comes to “justice”.
Read MoreThe Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy called for a 24-hour national strike on Friday, September 7, to demand the release of the hundreds of political prisoners being held by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, and the reinstallation of the National Dialogue that’s been suspended for over two months in Nicaragua.
Read MoreNicaraguan president Daniel Ortega denies that he has quashed the protests through repression, doesn’t feel responsible for those who died in the streets in the last four-plus months, and blames the United States and drug traffickers for financing, supporting and arming violent groups.
Read MoreThe following is for our readers who may support the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in its effort to squash the civic rebellion in Nicaragua but who are unable to read (in Spanish) the daily noon time speeches of Murillo. In this segment of her speech on Monday the vice president had the following to say…
Read MoreSix student leaders who have led civic anti-government protests in Nicaragua were arrested today by the police, in the midst of the serious crisis that will be tackled for the first time on Wednesday in the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
Read MoreThe political parties that want to remain relevant in the Nicaragua to come – when the Ortega-Murillo family has abandoned power – should understand that the old way of doing politics is dead. Beginning on April 18 in Nicaragua, “there was a very strong explosion, putting an end to that way of conducting politics.”
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