“Not even in the great world wars has this happened, persecuting doctors, persecuting and destroying ambulances, health personnel,” said the president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica, Andres Castillo, during a forum organized by the Latin-Iberoamerican Medical Confederation (Confemel).
Read MoreAlthough the government of Daniel Ortega tries its best to make everything look normal, financial data shows a very disturbing truth: reserves and deposits continue to fall, as well as the number of social security affiliates.
Read MoreAfter 34 years of giving classes, a teacher from Pueblo Nuevo received a letter of dismissal at her home. She claims that it was because she supported anti-government marches. Reprisals against teachers have occurred in Esteli, Condega and Pueblo Nuevo.
Read MoreThe disastrous consequences that the Ortega Murillo dictatorship will leave behind far outmatch those of past dictatorships of the country. No other dictatorship of Nicaragua’s modern history has reverted public discourse back as many centuries as this regime.
Read MoreThey just appear. Very rarely does anyone sees who is doing them. They have no signatures. No one claims authorship. It could be dangerous to put a name to something that challenges and mocks power. When a passerby walks in front of them, they read them, observe them and even feel them.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday formed the “working group” that is supposed to visit Nicaragua to mediate the sociopolitical crisis that has left 317 dead. However, the foreign minister of the Ortega regime, Denis Moncada, rejected the group and warned that in Managua they will not receive it.
Read More“We, concerned citizens of Burlington, are shocked at reports of increasing violence coming out of Nicaragua. What began as non-violent citizen protests in April has escalated, with police and masked paramilitaries linked to the Ortega government attacking and kidnapping protestors, students, journalists and clergy.”
Read MoreAccording to Jon Lee Anderson (legendary US journalist who has covered events in dozens of countries and published articles in several of the world’s most prestigious media), Latin America and the world in general are going through a crisis that cannot only be viewed from the old Left-Right dichotomy.
Read More“There are two paths: confrontation which will destroy the country; or return to dialogue, dissolve the paramilitaries, cease persecution and free political prisoners,” former FSLN National Directorate member Jaime Wheelock told Confidencial.
Read MoreA group of UN experts urged the Nicaraguan government to “stop the repression” and the “witch hunt” against dissenting voices and participants in opposition protests, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported today.
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