Nine days ahead of schedule, the official proclamation of the winners of the November 6th elections has been issued. Magistrate Roberto Rivas declared the Presidential formula Ortega-Murillo the victors, and also awarded the Sandinista Front 71 seats in the National Assembly. The rest of the 21 legislators’ positions will be divided up among the small parties termed the “mosquito” opposition.
Read MoreThe second consecutive reelection of Daniel Ortega, this time with his wife Rosario Murillo as Vice President, occurred as had been foreseen by the official script.
Read MoreOmar Halleslevens, former head of the Nicaraguan Army and the country’s current Vice President, will assume his constitutionally allotted deputy’s seat in the National Assembly in January and reportedly take on the role of presiding over the legislature.
Read MoreIf two times two are four, Roberto Rivas president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) doesn’t know it. Official data assures that the level of participation in last Sunday’s election was 68.2%. However, even taking these results as a starting point, Rivas’ statistics don’t add up.
Read MoreThey’re no longer going “towards more victories,” as the campaign slogan proclaimed. The dearth of electoral competition failed to assure a triumphant third consecutive presidential term to Comandante Daniel Ortega, eternal head of the Sandinista Front.
Read MoreAfter a practically non-existent campaign, the Nicaraguans who went to the polls on Sunday gave an overwhelming victory to Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murrillo, according to the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE).
Read MoreSome Nicaraguans will go to the polls for the general elections on Sunday, November 6, to reelect Daniel Ortega, and his wife as the new VP, while others will stay home and protest the uncontested elections.
Read MoreThe government of Daniel Ortega has invited the Organization of American States (OAS) to “make an appearance” on the fifth, sixth and seventh of November when Nicaragua will observe elections in which independent electoral observation are prohibited and the opposition has been outlawed by the government.
Read MoreThe magazine “Confidencial” was born in July,1996, on the eve of a presidential election during those years of democratic transition that Sofía Montenegro termed: “Nicaragua’s springtime of free expression.” She was alluding to the unusual climate of State tolerance towards critical journalism that was established during the government of my mother, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
Read MoreThe International Human Rights Federation (FIDH) presented in Managua a study of the Inter-Oceanic Canal concession’s “grave impact” on the population on October 14. This mega-project seems to be dissipating as time passes, but for the human rights organization it’s now “a process of mega land-grabbing.”
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