On a national level, 2016 was a year marked by the reelection of Daniel Ortega via an electoral process with no credibility: the opposition excluded; no national or international electoral observation; and a high level of abstention. Internationally, Donald Trump brought new uncertainty as the president-elect of the USA.
Read MoreOn a short dead-end street in the Miguel Bonilla neighborhood in Managua, there’s a house with a distinctive trait: a huge rainbow flag waves in the entrance. It contrasts with the intense blue of the walls, one of them marked with letters announcing that you’ve arrived at La Rizoma, a cultural center founded by Gabriel Perez Setright.
Read MoreCommunications expert Alfonso Malespín and Azucena Castillo, director of the Radio Universidad station, share the conviction that freedom of the press is at risk in Nicaragua, due to a “State policy” of denying the independent media access to information, intimidating journalists and generating self-censorship.
Read MoreThe truck that Francisca Ramírez uses to transport her tubers to market had been in the parking lot of the Nueva Guinea National Police station since November 29. The front window is broken, the side mirrors aren’t there nor are the lights, and the tarp with which she covers her crops is torn.
Read MoreAfter finishing a round of meetings with all the political and social sectors of the country, including the government, Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), told Confidencial that the dialogue between the OAS and Nicaragua isn’t limited to “electoral topics”.
Read MoreOnce again, the Nicaraguan government did not attend the hearing requested by civil society organizations, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held earlier in the week in Panama. No representative of the Nicaraguan State responded to the call of the regional body, a repeat of the previous session.
Read MoreAs of December 1, the US government has dropped its travel alert on Nicaragua, Jose Adan Aguerri, president of the Supreme Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), told El Nuevo Diario
Read MoreThe family remittances that Central Americans residing in the United States send to their countries probably won’t be affected by an inapplicable tax announced during President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral campaign, but they will feel the collateral impact of a rise in deportations.
Read MoreThe general repression unleashed by the Ortega-Murillo regime to impede a rural mobilization headed to Managua earlier this week represents the family dictatorship’s second great political defeat this year, following the national protest expressed by massive abstention in the November elections.
Read MoreThe Broad Democratic Front (Frente Amplio por la Democracia FAD) has a “road map” ready to present to Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States, when he arrives in Nicaragua on Thursday to continue the ongoing “dialogue” with the government of Daniel Ortega.
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