Ortega and the Nicaragua – Colombia Row
The favorable ruling at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the matter of Nicaragua’s dispute with Colombia reveals both a flagrant contradiction and holds a lesson for us.
Read MoreThe favorable ruling at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the matter of Nicaragua’s dispute with Colombia reveals both a flagrant contradiction and holds a lesson for us.
Read MoreWhen the wind blows strong in Leon, Nicaragua the sky changes color. Doors and windows slam shut. Darkness swallows the daylight and dust falls like ashes over the houses, buildings, churches and offices.
Read MoreThe right to independent observation for the Nicaraguan elections remains unheeded. Although there are no signs of free elections, the opposition is preparing itself and has proposed Fabio Gadea as a candidate.
Read MoreThe campesino movement demanding the repeal of the law for an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua – a project that the government has awarded to Chinese businessman Wang Jing – is autonomous, affirms Francisca Ramírez. It acts in defense of the earth and national sovereignty and isn’t motivated by any political interests.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega called him “The Somocista chaplain” after Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo’s “parable of the snake” homily, pronounced in the Metropolitan Cathedral on October 17, 1996. Just three days later, Ortega would lose the presidential election to Arnoldo Alemán.
Read MoreThe siege and the barriers blocking access to public information that Comandante Daniel Ortega’s regime has imposed on independent journalism aims to silence all voices in discordance with the official discourse.
Read MoreLast Monday’s confirmation that the opaque and autocratic government of the Ortega-Murillo couple has been quietly arranging the illegal release of over 8,000 prisoners, represents the last shovelful of earth over our judicial power and the aspirations for justice in Nicaragua.
Read MoreLast Thursday night, the 26th anniversary of the elections of February 25, 1990, Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren (1947-2015), one of the key figures behind the democratic transition that former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro led in Nicaragua, was paid tribute to by ex-ministers of Chamorro’s government, who remembered him as an “atypical politician”.
Read MoreGaby Garcia and Carlos Bonilla, two opposition activists who for several months have maintained a crusade to demand free elections in the country, were stabbed and beaten by five men armed with knives and pipes outside their home in the June 10 neighborhood of Managua on Friday.
Read MoreThe following is writer and poet Gioconda Belli’s homage to Jesuit father Fernando Cardenal who passed away on February 20th in Managua, Nicaragua.
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