Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega warned Wednesday that he will not abandon the government, responding to the demands of his opponents who have urged him to withdraw from power. Meanwhile new incidents left at least two dead and more than a dozen injured after a massive opposition march.
Read MoreThe National Dialogue process, which began on May 16th, was suspended at is fourth session (Wednesday 23rd) because no agreements were being reached, after benefitting both the Nicaraguan people involved in protests since April 18th and the Ortega dictatorship.
Read MoreBusinessman Piero Coen Ubilla, president of a large conglomerate that wields a lot of weight in Nicaragua in financial services, agroindustry, cattle raising, the agricultural sector, real estate and ID solutions, hopes to see a “rapid”, “peaceful”, and “constitutional” way out of the political, economic and social crisis that has engulfed the country since April 18th.
Read MoreOh, how powerless I felt when I went to get my motorbike fixed and I heard a 10-year-old boy, the mechanic’s son, say to his father: “this happened so suddenly, because everything was calm last week.” And it really was. Before April 19th…
Read MoreSeveral days ago, the Mothers’ April 19th Movement, parents of dozens of murdered youths, called for a march in Managua on Mothers Day, Wednesday, May 30th, demanding justice and an end to the killing.
Read MoreAmnesty International (AI) denounced today that the Government of Nicaragua committed “crimes of international law”, by “exercising a lethal repressive policy” against the ongoing protests that began on April 17, with evidence of having “intentionally deprived the life of political opponents and protesters.
Read MoreAt the dialogue table, in the medical centers, the press rooms, in the occupied universities, and behind the barricades, there are women. We talk with some of them.
Read MoreAmnesty International and human rights activist Bianca Jagger, denounced the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua for an attack Monday by “Sandinista mobs” against a university in the capital, and urged him to “stop the murders” in the country.
Read MoreA group of unknown gunmen attacked the facilities of the University of Engineering (UNI) in the Nicaraguan capital today, after students barricaded themselves inside. During the assault, another group set fire to the facilities of the nearby official radio station “Nueva Radio Ya.”
Read MoreA joint commission, created in Nicaragua to try and unblock the dialogue between the government and the opposition Civic Alliance and resolve the acute crisis that is shaking the country, will meet for the first time on Monday, announced today the mediation commission formed by the Catholic Episcopal Conference.
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