When President Ortega speaks, the independent media must keep quiet. That seems to be the premise for spreading government speeches and news announcements. This strategy forms part of a media policy which has been imposed ever since Ortega returned to power in 2007.
Read MoreThe real estate business maintains stable growth in Nicaragua. At the moment, office buildings and commercial centers seem assured of finding tenants, housing developments for the middle and working class families sell at a reasonable rate, but luxury condos fill more slowly.
Read MoreA Nicaraguan woman died Tuesday after having been thrown into a fire in the mining town of Rosita in the Autonomous North Atlantic region of the country, just days before International Women’s Day (March 8th).
Read MoreRoberto Orozco, specialist in security and drug trafficking, assured that cases like that of former police officer Diogenes Medina Martínez – known as “El Yogi” – who became a lawbreaker in full view of the police chiefs. Such cases reveal the existence of a “chain of corruption” in the heart of the institution, damaging the professional image of the Nicaraguan Police.
Read MoreMarch number 86 which the farmers of the anti-canal movement held on Thursday morning in the community of El Tule, in the department of Nueva Guinea included a celebration of the twenty-so kilometers of road that the rural residents decided to repair with their own resources. They had grown tired of waiting for any response from the government, while every week brought a new vehicle accident.
Read MorePoet Ernesto Cardenal, 92, arrived in Granada this past Tuesday to participate in the International Poetry Festival. The poet was direct, without mincing words. He terms the Ortega government a “dictatorship” that is persecuting him through the courts.
Read MoreA legal edict which was published in the official La Gaceta newspaper of Nicaragua last Friday, demands that poet Ernesto Cardenal pay a 17.222 million Córdoba (800,000 USD) debt to Nubia del Socorro Arcia Mayorga, for “damages”. Thus, Nicaragua’s Justice System is re-opening a case which the priest himself has denounced as political persecution by the regime of Comandante Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreDid you know that in Managua business establishments generate 197,000 jobs? Or that in the capital itself there are 228,281 homes, of which approximately 15,247 receive family remittances?
Read MoreA historic precedent was set in the case of a sex worker in Nicaragua last week: the Ministry of Labor ruled in her favor, affirming for the first time that she is protected by the Nicaraguan labor rights. This trade union has been struggling for years to achieve this recognition.
Read MoreThe past returns to haunt us sometimes, and those you thought you’d beaten come back with more power. That’s exactly what happened to presidents Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega on February 1st, when the United States Senate confirmed Rex Tillerson as the US Secretary of State for the new Trump administration.
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