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.
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBelinda 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.
Read MorePolitical 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.
Read MoreCardinal 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”.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe “Mothers of April” Movement condemned the massacre that occurred during the peaceful Mother’s Day march of May 30th, which left many more Nicaraguan families in mourning. They called on the business sector to declare a national work stoppage to pressure the exit of the Government of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Luis Almagro, stands firm as an important ally of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo so they can stay a few more years in the presidency of Nicaragua.
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