According to the electoral calendar established by the Supreme Electoral Court (CSE), the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) must register their list of candidates for president, vice president and legislators between July 28th and August 2nd and in doing so they’ll reveal what the line of succession that Commander Daniel Ortega has in mind.
Cuba’s First Vice President, Miguel Diaz Canel, is in Managua today to accompany Daniel Ortega at the 37th anniversary celebration of the Nicaraguan revolution.
According to the polls, the Nicaraguan government headed by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo continue to be very popular and they have managed to consolidate all the state powers in their favor. Cartoonist Manuel Guillen gives us his take on the situation in the Central American country.
We need to engage in some sensible reflection about how to assure the rational exploitation and protection of this lake that is our only possible means for hydrological security.
He was a pot washer, an economics student and a shipping agent before becoming a chef and entrepreneur. Today he’s the founder a chain of nine restaurants plus a catering company and he’s had great success in the United States developing an upscale version of Nicaraguan recipes.
The six members from the Meso-American Caravan who were deported from Nicaragua by the government of Daniel Ortega, still don’t understand why they were accused of handling explosives “for no apparent reason”.
The hardening noted in the last few weeks is a direct consequence of the problems that Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is having with an opposition ever more able to call attention to responsibilities and poor management, and with increasing popular support.
Byron Ortiz, a Costa Rican indigenous activist, was detained last Saturday in La Fonseca, Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua. Ortiz stated later that during the 48 hours of his and five colleagues’ disappearance, they were locked in a “very unsanitary room” in the central office of Immigration in Managua. The authorities never explained to them why they had been held.
So what ever happened to the Nicaragua Canal Project we heard so much about? Has anything new taken place? Did the billionaire Wang Jing led consortium actually raise the estimated US $50 billion needed for the project? Have the land expropriations by the government of Daniel Ortega begun and if not, when?
The leader of the rural movement that opposes the building of an Interoceanic Canal in Nicaragua, Francisca Ramirez, was released Saturday afternoon by the National Police after being arrested earlier in the day.