In my 34 years of life I never needed the phrase “Free Country or Death” to protest against a dictatorship. I never imagined that I had to mourn the death of my people fallen in combat; and much less that I had to ask a stranger to let me hide in his house while fleeing from the riot police.
Read MoreSome 3,000 people marched in San Jose, Costa Rica on Saturday against xenophobia and in support of Nicaraguan refugees who are leaving their country in droves due to the political crisis with its massive arrests and extreme violence unleashed by the government of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreAt least 21 young people, students who are members of the University Coordinator for Democracy and Justice (CUDJ) and three documentary filmmakers, were arrested today by the Nicaraguan police in the department of Carazo.
Read MoreThe impact of the Informative Caravan in Solidarity with Nicaragua, that has travelled through various countries of the European Union, has been slow but significant. Madelaine Caracas explained that little by little the media, human rights organizations and left-wing political parties, opened the door to putting the issue of Nicaragua and the repression of Daniel Ortega’s regime that has cause more than 300 dead on their agenda.
Read MoreAccording to the well-known feminist poet, Gioconda Belli, the international community must “act for the good of the Nicaraguans and convince Ortega that in this century there can no longer be tyrants who try to lock a country in a cage and throw the key out to the sea.”
Read MoreEver since the crisis began in Nicaragua, a new wave of immigrants fleeing to Costa Rica in order to survive has begun. They go not only to look for work, study opportunities or healthcare. They didn’t plan their journey to improve the quality of their lives, but as the only way to remain alive. These are some Nicaraguans’ stories…
Read MoreThe invasion of private property in both cities and the countryside, ordered by the ruling FSLN party headed by Daniel Ortega, has hardened the difficulties faced by the real estate industry, whose activity is very close to zero, since the national crisis began in April.
Read MoreAlejandra Paz Huete is 18 years old and has infinite curiosity. In January of this year she decided to learn how to knit, but she would do it self-taught. She began searching for tutorials in YouTube after seeing a picture of an embroidery in Instagram.
Read MoreThe aggressive attack launched by the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry against the OAS’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has meant a declaration of war against this institution, whose report about the grave human rights violations in Nicaragua is being backed by 21 countries on the continent.
Read MoreOn July 16th, after ninety days of a brutal and systematic repression against the “self-convoked” citizen protest—which has generated the most serious crisis of governability suffered by Nicaragua in recent decades—, Daniel Ortega’s regime approved a new Prevention of Money Laundering Law, also known as “Ortega’s Anti-Terrorism Law”.
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