Six 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.”
Read MoreJust before midday on Sunday, thousands of people participating in what was called the “March of the flags” began to run and throw themselves to the ground when hooded paramilitaries started shooting from three pick-up trucks identified with red and black Sandinista party flags, injuring two people and generating panic among the participants.
Read MoreTwenty-four hours before leaving Nicaragua after being expelled by the government, as part of the UN’s team from the Office on the High Commission of Human Rights, head of mission Guillermo Fernandez Maldonado, expressed his concern for the abandonment of the victims of repression who have the right to “truth, justice and compensation”.
Read MoreRelatives of retired Coronel Carlos Brenes and of retired Major Tomas Maldonado, both accused of terrorism and other crimes committed during their alleged participation in roadblocks, demanded from Daniel Ortega’s government their freedom and requested that the Nicaraguan Army mediate for the release of these founders of the military institution.
Read MoreIn an interview with the Voice of America, Rosario Murillo’s daughter Zoilamerica Ortega Murillo, called Daniel Ortega’s government weak, and noted that as both an opportunity and a danger for Nicaraguans. She argues that Ortega has lost his legitimacy, and says that the country is undergoing a second process of liberation.
Read MoreAccording to the organization, the total number of doctors fired from hospitals and public health centers is at least 300, stated Carlos Duarte, secretary of the Association’s Board of Directors. The dismissals are attributed to political reasons [for healing wounded protestors or participating in or supporting the anti-government demonstrations].
Read MoreWith neither program nor proposals to offer the population to recover the hint of consensus, among a mass of fanatics obsessed with maintaining Ortega in power and held together by the ideology of violence, they don’t care if they have to continue killing and jailing the entire rest of Nicaragua in his name.
Read MoreWe are winning because there is no return to the past. Because the future began to take shape at the moment the population lost its fear and freedom seized the streets. An out of control Orteguismo is already in the past – all that remains is his repressive apparatus.
Read MoreI’m writing this with immense sorrow in my heart, from a distance and an emotional place beyond consolation. The grief has grown larger, uncontrollable, and today I can’t go on: I must let it out. Yaritza, Victoria, Levy, Luis, Byron, Nahiroby and Juan were abducted on Saturday, August 25, while participating in a citizens’ demonstration in Leon, Nicaragua.
Read More
