Hundreds of students demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega peacefully occupied public universities in three cities of Nicaragua today to demand the withdrawal of a student organization linked to the ruling Sandinista Front.
Read MoreTwenty days after the start of the protests against the government of Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua woke up Monday under extreme tension and uncertainty, after new clashes between police and demonstrators. A possible dialogue has not yet begun and threats of worker, transport and commerce strikes are in the air.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan National Assembly set up a ‘Truth, Justice and Peace Commission’, to which it gave the mandate to “know, analyze and clarify the truth of the latest events in the country,” referring to the massacre perpetrated by the Police National and groups related to the Sandinista Front, against unarmed students protesting reforms to the social security system.
Read MoreAfter protests broke out 17 days ago, Nicaragua’s political crisis has hit sensitive economic sectors such as tourism and exports, warned private businessmen, who are urging the Government to establish a process of national dialogue as soon as possible.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan government rejected the IACHR’s petition to make a pressing visit to the country in order to investigate the recent violence and protests, where at least 46 people have died, the government claiming that “internal procedures” need to be completed first.
Read MoreOn Thursday, bishops from Nicaragua’s Episcopal Conference (CEN) stated that the objective of the national dialogue process should be “to examine Nicaragua’s political system as its roots, in order to bring about a real democracy.”
Read MoreIf you asked anyone less than a month ago who were the most important civilian allies of the Ortega-Murillo government in Nicaragua, many would have said, the Catholic Church and COSEP the umbrella Private Sector organization.
Read MoreAlthough dozens of suspects for these crimes have been identified by the population and the victims’ family members, and the proof has been displayed in the independent media and the social networks, not a single member of the paramilitary has been detained nor has any police officier been separated from their post in order to undergo an investigation…
Read MoreNicaraguan university students demand that the government of Daniel Ortega allow the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Office of the Rapporteur on Human Rights to investigate the deaths and alleged torture of young people detained during the recent protests.
Read MoreThe responses of the presidential couple to the events of the week of April 18th were so contrary to how one might expect you can’t help but wonder if they have already lost all connection with reality.
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