The 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.
Read MoreLess than a hundred meters from my house there is an evangelical church in which the congregation sings with good rhythm and accompanies with palms: The word has power, has power, has power. They refer to the word of Jesus, but what is said applies to the human and the divine.
Read MoreThe government of Daniel Ortega named the controversial Mohamed Lashtar, a Nicaraguan citizen of Libyan origin and nephew of the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as the new ambassador of Nicaragua in both Kuwait and Egypt, reported Confidencial.
Read MoreIn Sutiava, a suburb of Leon, a family of “gigantona makers” have held on to the tradition of these giant puppets for decades, although in some periods of history it’s been menaced. Wilfredo Arostegui works with rigorous historical accuracy. He notes that to make the body of a gigantona, he consulted magazines and articles from the era.
Read MoreAlmost every day for the last few months, brave women and some men have brought to light the cases in the United States of sexual abuse and misconduct they were victims of in the past at the hands of the powerful. While some of the perpetrators claim amnesia, framing the incidents as long past, unproven and forgotten, the victims remember them as if they occurred yesterday.
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