The 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.
Read MoreAn earthquake and a hurricane struck Central America on Thursday, striking at the same time from the Pacific and the Caribbean the narrow line of land linking North and South America, and once again showing its great vulnerability.
Read MoreHurricane Otto is expected to reach land later on Thursday and currently packs 105 mph winds and moving west at 8 mph (7 a.m. EST) The center is expected to pass somewhere close to the Nicaragua – Costa Rica border and then continue on west, notes the National Hurricane Center,
Read MoreHurricane Otto, which turned into the seventh Atlantic hurricane of the season on Tuesday, is headed toward the border area of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, according to information provided by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami.
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