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Mormons Complete Pull-out from Nicaragua

The Mormon Church announced on Monday that it is pulling out its remaining missionaries in Nicaragua due to the prolonged violence in the Central American country.

Venezuela and Nicaragua Crisis on Today’s OAS Agenda

The OAS General Assembly, the most important annual meeting of the organization that brings together the countries of the Americas, began Tuesday its second and final day in Washington, where it will discuss a draft resolution that could initiate the process of suspension of Venezuela as well as resolution regarding Nicaragua.

For Sandinistas, who aren’t Danielistas, it’s Time to Serve your Country

The civic struggle, headed by the university students, stands out for their refusal to use the methods of war to confront the State repression against Nicaraguan society. The densely populated citizen marches and the roadblocks are their principal instruments of struggle.

Nicaraguans Suffering for Their Country from Afar

My first instinct when I saw what was happening in Nicaragua was to buy a plane ticket and go. It was difficult to keep a rational head upon seeing so much injustice and my people in pain. I logged out of Facebook for a few hours and sat down to think about what I could do.

Nicaragua: Ortega’s Death Squads are Free to Act

A source connected to the National Police told us that vigilante groups (which the Government continues to deny their existence) are made up of Managua City Hall employees, civilian-dressed policemen, former policemen, veteran guerrilla fighters and gang members from Managua’s neighborhoods and other cities.

Sergio Ramirez: “Daniel Ortega’s Time Is Up”

The Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez says that President Daniel Ortega has let “the evil genie out of the bottle,” by responding to the crisis that his government faces with “chaos and terror”, a response that has caused over a hundred deaths in six weeks, according to human rights organizations.

Will the OAS Debate the Ortega Massacre in Nicaragua?

Belinda Peña didn’t sleep on Saturday night. At two in the morning she left from the State of New Jersey for Washington D.C. Before leaving her house, she made sure to mount the placard she had made stating “Stop Genocide in Nicaragua,” in the vehicle.

Nicaragua: The Civic Rebellion and the Regime’s Final Stages

Political conflicts like the one affecting Nicaragua pass through several defined stages: rupture of the status quo; intensification of the violence and the conflict; general fatigue from the former; and the final break, culminating in a change of regime.

Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo Dies in Nicaragua

Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, former archbishop of Managua and emblematic figure of the Catholic Church of Nicaragua for several decades, died today at 92, the government reported on its website “El 19 Digital”.

Nicaraguans Seeking to Oust Ortega Head for OAS General Assembly

A group of representatives of the Civic Alliance, which is leading the protests against the Government of Nicaragua, traveled Saturday to the United States to raise awareness of the situation in the Central American country at the OAS General Assembly that begins on Monday.