Roadblocks multiplied over the weekend in Nicaragua’s capital after the opposition called upon the population to organize and defend themselves against the Government in their peaceful nationwide protest.
Read MoreCobblestone barricades rise up in the neighborhoods, while roadblocks of different materials are installed at the entrances to the city. “We are going to close everything until they leave,” referring to Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreAfter having remained in power for eleven years, leading a corrupt regime that demolished the democratic institutions and concentrated all state powers under his control, Ortega had the opportunity to corroborate his supposed democratic convictions regarding civic struggle. He failed completely.
Read MoreAfter their apparent falling out with the Nicaraguan Catholic bishops trying to mediate a now suspended national dialogue between a student led Civic Alliance and the government, president Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo have brought in an evangelical preacher from Puerto Rico to help their cause to remain in power.
Read MoreAfter 52 days entrenched in the facilities of the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (UPOLI), turned into a bastion of the university resistance, the Student April 19th Movement decided to abandon the campus today, due to the “large number of infiltrators” in the university.
Read MoreWhen the majority of students who are protesting against Ortega’s regime today were born, Daniel Ortega had already been Nicaragua’s president and left this position. When he returned to office in 2007, the majority of these young people hadn’t finished sixth grade.
Read MoreFrancisca Ramirez. “We’re not giving in, the people don’t want Ortega to remain in power, and they want him to resign. We’re asking the population to get out on the streets,” added the leader of the anti-canal movement that has supported the student led uprising.
Read MoreDear Luis Almagro, I understand that it’s difficult for you to assimilate the fact that Daniel Ortega, one of the nine leaders of the Sandinista Revolution, has become a dictator. How can you ask us to “strengthen the democratic institutions” of the Ortega dictatorship if there IS no democracy?
Read MoreA highly awaited meeting between President Daniel Ortega and the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua concluded today without concrete results. The disappointing outcome came at day 50 of what are now nationwide protests with a death toll of at least 127 persons and more than 1,200 injured.
Read MoreFour decades ago, the popular armed insurrection deposed the dictator Anastasio Somoza, while the FSLN presented itself as the only protagonist, baptizing the process as the “triumph of the Sandinista Revolution”. Today we Nicaraguans are experiencing a kind of déjà vu with the new dictator Daniel Ortega…
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