In 1978, during the last years of the Somoza dictatorship, I wrote a poem calling for a strike. I never thought this poem would once again be necessary, much less while engaged in the burning effort of my youth: overthrowing what I thought would be the last tyrant my eyes would ever see…
Read MoreThe main business chambers of the country called Tuesday for a 24-hour national strike on Thursday, June 14th, as an “extreme measure” to force President Daniel Ortega to respond to the proposal for the democratization of the country presented by the bishops of the Episcopal Conference. They also demand he stop the wave of repression and violence…
Read MoreThat proposal was presented to the bishops and the Civic Alliance that participate in the suspended National Dialogue by US Ambassador Laura Dogu and Caleb McCarry, a delegate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who visited Nicaragua over the weekend, informed Medardo Mairena, coordinator of the National Council for the Defense of Land, Lake and Sovereignty.
Read MoreCardinal Leopoldo Brenes, today denounced new attacks by police and paramilitaries against civilian protesters in different areas of the country and urged the authorities to stop them. His message was titled “Urgent Denunciation”.
Read More“Here we have Daniel Ortega’s response.” You can hear it. It resounds on every corner. “Bang. Bang. Bang.” They are dry and continuous shots, from AK-47s. Rifles. East of Managua, The Maria la Auxiliadora neighborhood on the east side of Managua has been attacked without mercy.
Read MoreHarley Morales is living in a kind of cloister at the moment. This 26-year-old sociology student at Nicaragua’s Central American University sleeps in a safe house, together with another 40 university students who are representatives of the student groups that have risen during the current political crisis.
Read MoreAmerican Airlines has suspended flights between the cities of Managua and Miami for security reasons due to the serious crisis that is shaking Nicaragua, the company said in a statement today.
Read MoreAlthough Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega “is smothering in blood” the civic protests that have engulfed the country for weeks, the “insurrection” is “ever more irreversible,” stated Ernesto Medina, rector of the Americana University (UAM) in an interview.
Read MoreRoadblocks multiplied over the weekend in Nicaragua’s capital after the opposition called upon the population to organize and defend themselves against the Government in their peaceful nationwide protest.
Read MoreCobblestone barricades rise up in the neighborhoods, while roadblocks of different materials are installed at the entrances to the city. “We are going to close everything until they leave,” referring to Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo.
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