On July 9, 2016: it’s a Saturday, and it’s raining as I begin my trip North from Managua. I’m headed for Waslala in search of the family I lived with and taught to read 36 years ago as part of Nicaragua’s National Literacy Crusade in 1980.
Read MoreThese migrants are people just like our own migrants who leave to go to the US, Spain and Costa Rica. What we have to demand from the Nicaraguan Government is that its migration policy doesn’t criminalize migrants,” stated the Human Rights activist.
Read MoreA day of protests in rural communities of the Southern Caribbean and the South Pacific of Nicaragua against the Ortega government supported Interoceanic Canal project ended Thursday without incident.
Read More“This government has us fed up, that’s why I’m here, I’m making sacrifices to come here, but I’ve come. I’m not going to vote because there’s nobody to vote for,” says Guerrero.
Read More“Voting is a right. The decision to vote or not to vote should be made by each person according to the dictates of their inner conscience,” declares the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference.
Read MoreWith less than eighty days to go before the November 6 elections, there’s almost no electoral propaganda on the streets of Managua and the country’s principal cities. Even the official propaganda, which has been a permanent fixture during the ten years of Comandante Daniel Ortega’s rule, is sparser than at other times. Beside the main roadways, the giant pink billboards have lost their original glow.
Read MoreThe main opposition group has called for abstention, under the slogan “I won’t throw away my vote,” or “No one to vote for.” If their aim is to repudiate the electoral panorama and call for political resistance, this isn’t the most effective method.
Read MoreGen. Julio Cesar Aviles, head of the Nicaraguan army, assured the public that the acquisition of 50 Russian T72 model tanks does not represent a US $80 million debt for Nicaragua, as the Moscow press asserted last April on the Sputnik news agency’s website.
Read MoreThe Autonomous Women’s Movement (MAM) issued a statement in which they condemned Rosario Murillo’s candidacy for vice-president for the governing Sandinista National Liberation Front, while they “strongly reject the ambition” of Comandante Daniel Ortega’s regime to “carry on in power and to establish a dictatorship, dynastic in nature.”
Read MoreThe voice of Sergio Ramirez, one of the most respected and influential intellectuals in Latin America, also embodies the weight of political experience, intuition and historical perspective. All of this leads him to say: “We’re watching a movie [in Nicaragua] we’ve seen before and we know that it doesn’t end well”.
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