Over time, we have discovered that international defenders of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, who belong to an outdated Left, aren’t analyzing the situation in Nicaragua as Marxists, but through their prism of nostalgia for a revolution which ceased to exist many years ago.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will address this Thursday at 10:00 a.m. ET a draft resolution sponsored by eight countries, which pursues the creation of a “special commission” for Nicaragua.
Read MoreThe Jesuit University of Central America (UCA) of Nicaragua, one of the academic centers where protests against the government began last April, announced today its indefinite closing, faced with the end of an economic subsidy that it received from the government.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s National Police has named members of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy and figures from opposition groups as backing crimes of terrorism. This statement was presented in the government’s case against Christian Fajardo and his wife, Maria Adilia Peralta, members of the April 19th movement in Masaya.
Read MoreThe rustic wooden cross enters in a silent procession, in the hands of the altar boy. Excited, people hold their breath and then break into applause. Some cry when they see the priest’s silhouette. He’s back. “This applause is for Christ and for Nicaragua,” says Father Edwin Roman from the altar of the humble San Miguel church in Masaya.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States will meet this Tuesday, July 31st to discuss a new resolution regarding the situation in Nicaragua including the creation a follow-up group on the national crisis. If the necessary support for passage is obtained, it will be submitted to a vote the next day – Wednesday, August 1.
Read MoreNicaraguan President Daniel Ortega today blamed the United States for the crisis his country has been facing since last April and reiterated that he will not abandon power or hold early elections as the opposition demands.
Read More“Here I am…, sadly entrenched in my easel”, says M. Victor, a Nicaraguan artist whose routine of drawing portraits has radically changed since the protests started last April 18th. He stopped doing portraits of happy people to instead portray “the rawness” of the repression Nicaraguans are living.
Read MoreDr. Rosario Pereira was ordered to leave the Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello Teaching Hospital (HEODRA) in Leon immediately after Judith Lejarza Vargas, the director of this hospital complex, delivered her termination letter. Three security guards compelled the doctor to leave the building…
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s government of Nicaragua could face in the coming days the creation of a “special commission” within the Organization of American States (OAS) or the freezing of loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), diplomatic sources informed.
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