The 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.
Read MoreA poem by Gioconda Belli, dedicated to the political prisoners of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAfter repressing, murdering, persecuting and imprisoning hundreds of citizens, the Ortega regime intends to silence the civic protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, through a police order that threatens to prosecute individuals and organizations that call any demonstration of civic protest, which are now declared “illegal”.
Read MoreThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the IACHR, expressed its concern after the Sandinista police in Nicaragua described as illegal all marches carried out against the government of Daniel Ortega, responsible for the deaths of more than 320 Nicaraguans and hundreds of political prisoners since April.
Read MoreThe day before Amaya Coppens Zamora was taken prisoner by Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship, in Leon, her father Federic Coppens spoke to her from Belgium. He tried to convince her that “things were becoming tense” and that she should look into leaving the country. She got annoyed and hung up the phone.
Read MoreNicaraguan authorities should investigate a targeted online harassment campaign against freelance journalist Carl David Goette-Luciak, find those responsible, and ensure his safety, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). However, the question is will they investigate themselves?
Read More“The program is going to be the same, we will try to go more in-depth and retake some things that we had left behind. The jokes are going to be there and the political viewpoint will remain as long as this struggle continues. That I can assure,” stated Edgar Tijerino, the founder of the Double Play program.
Read MoreThe leader of the anti-canal peasant movement, Francisca Ramirez, promises to fight from abroad against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. She said it from San Jose, Costa Rica, where she had to seek refuge, faced with a fierce government persecution.
Read MoreUniversity student Elsa Valle, released today after 75 days in prison for protesting against the government of Daniel Ortega, denounced that the detainees suffer psychological abuse and subsist in unhealthy conditions with a poor diet. She also said she would continue to be part of the struggle for a free Nicaragua.
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