There aren’t any cobblestones in this area, but that didn’t stop them from finding materials for defending their community: tree trunks, a piece of a fence, construction leftovers, rocks, some broken television sets… anything can be useful for creating a (false) sense of security; they don’t know if it will be put to the test when night falls.
Read MoreThe famous singer/songwriter Carlos Mejia Godoy denounced Friday an attack by police and paramilitaries on the home of musician Milciades Herrera and the subsequent kidnapping of one of his relatives, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Read MoreA 24-hour national strike called by the Civic Alliance paralyzed Nicaragua on the eve of the resumption of a dialogue with the government and amid new attacks by police and paramilitary forces against civilian protesters that raised the death toll to more than 160 in a little less than two months.
Read MoreOver 100 barricades were erected to defend the university city, after the first, more local citizens’ strike took place on Tuesday and today, Thursday, June 14th, they joined the national work stoppage.
Read More“Put down your arms, my countrymen on the police force. Stop your acts of repression and join the peaceful protest.”
Read MoreA few hours before the beginning of Thursday’s 24-hour general strike called by the Civic Alliance in Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega agreed to return to the dialogue table on Friday, announced the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference (CEN) mediators of the process.
Read MoreIn 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”.
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