The UN today called for urgent measures to address the human rights crisis in Nicaragua, where it denounced “repression and reprisals” against protesters who have protested against the government of President Daniel Ortega since April.
Read MoreJudge Ernesto Rodríguez, ruled that two young men, Brandon Lovo and Glen Slate, were guilty of the assassination of Bluefields journalist Angel Gahona. Gahona was killed on April 21st in Bluefields as he covered the initial protests against reforms to Nicaragua’s Social Security system. Both the wife and family of Gahona maintain that the two young men were not involved.
Read MoreRegardless of all the pressures, attacks, threats and blackmail, independent journalism will survive, because it is providing the kind of information demanded by the population in the worst crisis of the Ortega dictatorship: truthfulness, verifying different sources and professionalism.
Read MoreA negotiation or political dialogue between excluding positions is never a process to reach agreements. In an alliance you seek to be in agreement, in a political negotiation you do not. A negotiation defines the limits of the reciprocal interests confronted, in a contradictory and changing reality…
Read MoreIn 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…
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