The resignation of Monica Lopez as legal advisor for the National Council in Defense of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty was a strong warning blow for the inner circle of the Rural Movement. The lawyer expressed that she couldn’t continue working under the current conditions imposed during the term of Medardo Mairena as director.
Read MoreIn Nicaragua, deposits grew substantially in the Albanisa bank (Banco Corporativo) following the closing of accounts in three other banks for fear of being affected by US sanctions against PDVSA, the Venezuelan State-owned petroleum company.
Read MoreBayardo Arce, the economic and financial adviser of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, criticized the United States on Friday for sanctioning the president of the country’s Electoral Council, Roberto Rivas, for acts of “significant corruption”,
Read MoreMagistrate Roberto Rivas should resign the post that he’s occupied for over twenty years as head of an electoral system that has collapsed, even though his exit alone won’t reestablish its credibility. This is the unanimous opinion of analysts and figures from the Nicaraguan opposition.
Read MoreThe Costa Rican Attorney General’s Office informed on Tuesday that it opened an investigation against the president of the Supreme Electoral Council of Nicaragua, Roberto Rivas, for what it considers the possible crime of money laundering.
Read MoreThese are the stories of three Nicaraguan couples and a marriage, where one of the partners involved discovered that they weren’t heterosexual. Photo from the film Grace and Frankie.
Read MoreEfforts to stop the cancellation of Temporary Protective Status for Nicaraguans found no echo in the White House. Last November 7th, the executive branch presided over by Donald Trump ended the program which affects 5,349 immigrants who could face deportation in 2019.
Read MoreI wish to substantiate a theory: on a world level, Putin now exercises a kind of political paternity over a large part of the western hemisphere in the same way that the U.S did previously, until the day that it occurred to them to elect an isolationist president.
Read MoreA day after the Organization of American States OAS endorsed the results of the disputed municipal elections in Nicaragua, President Donald Trump, included Roberto Rivas, president of the Supreme Electoral Council, on a list of “people involved in serious human rights abuses or corruption “, based on the Magnitsky Global Law, within the framework of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in English).
Read MoreThe Tepesomoto hill, 231 kilometers from Managua, offers a rainy season panorama of green and navy blue. Marely Albir Figueroa, 16, is all too familiar with this view. She gets up at 4 in the morning to fetch water from the well near her community; on the way back, with the heavy container on her small head, she watches the dawn in its full splendor.
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