The executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Paulo Abrao, said Friday that the repression in Nicaragua has entered a third phase that he described as “bureaucratic repression.”
Read MorePersecution of Nicaraguans who support the ongoing protests against the government of Daniel Ortega has become commonplace in the country. Ortega considers the violence of his paramilitary forces a legitimate defense against what he calls “coup” promoters and supporters trying to topple his legitimate government.
Read MoreNicaragua marks one hundred days of struggle against a regime which is trying to impose “normalcy” with paramilitary terror and the criminalizing of protest.
Read MoreHe is 20 years old and he would love to finish his journalism degree in Argentina. Then, he would like to be a war correspondent. But not in his native Nicaragua, which he dreams of being “free and in peace”, safe from the unstoppable wave of violence that has been spilling its blood for over three months now.
Read More“Once again, an adverse scenario has been created and the euphoria in our enemies resurfaces,” Castro told thousands of people gathered for the rally broadcast live on state television.
Read MoreThe goal of the interview that comandante Daniel Ortega granted to “Fox News” was to “get the attention of president Donald Trump”, but Ortega didn’t succeed. This was the opinion of Alejandro Bendana, historian and specialist in International Law.
Read MoreThe Brazilian Embassy in Nicaragua confirmed the murder of Brazilian citizen Rayneia Lima on Monday night, when she was returning from her shift at work at the Carlos Roberto Huembes Hospital. The 31-year-old victim was a medical student at the American University (UAM) and was in the final year of her degree.
Read MoreHe won’t leave power because that “would worsen things.” His government has no relation whatsoever with the paramilitaries. There are no problems between the government and the church. No student has died in any church. And the country is in route towards ‘’normalization.” That’s the Nicaragua that comandante Ortega described in an interview with the Fox News.
Read MoreThe situation in Nicaragua as a result of the repressive actions of Daniel Ortega’s government is “alarming”. Up until now, nearly 300 have died, and dozens of people are either “missing”, tortured or have fled. In addition, between 400 and 500 people are being held in the country’s different jails.
Read MoreMarco Novoa is the first Nicaraguan youth to publicly denounce the existence of a clandestine jail in which he was tortured for a week. He was kidnapped by one of Ortega’s paramilitary groups on May 24, in retaliation for his participation in the civic protests against the regime.
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