The 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.
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Last 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.
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Last 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”.
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Gaby 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.
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The 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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The monthly Envio magazine recently came out with its February edition which includes a review of the political situation facing Nicaragua in an election year. Read the complete report.
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“Those who are here today saying goodbye to him, are sending off three people: a friend – and he was a good friend – a spiritual guide and a confidant,” said his nephew, Fernando Cardenal.
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Fernando Cardenal passed away in the early morning of Saturday, February 20, following several weeks in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Nicaragua’s capital. Born in Granada in 1934, Cardenal was a Jesuit priest, liberation theologian and former Minister of Education in Nicaragua.
Read MoreCosta Rican president Luis Guillermo Solis reported on Friday that some 4,100 Cuban migrants remain stranded in his country, waiting to be able to reach the United States.
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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) “strongly and categorically” condemned the accusations leveled at “the UNDP and its personnel” by the government of Daniel Ortega via a communiqué issued by the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry and addressed to embassies, international organizations and cooperation agencies accredited in Nicaragua, where the UN organization is said to be developing acts of “political interventionism” to “finance political groups” and to “distort” the country’s development data.
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