In an extremely dangerous move which relives the history of the Somoza dictatorship in the 20th century, Ortega closes the political space to any real opposition, giving way to “collaborationist” loyal opposition parties in order to institutionalize his hegemonic party’s regime.
Read MoreWith less than five months to go for the November 6 national elections, the Constitutional Wing of Nicaragua’s Supreme Court has effectively left the opposing National Coalition for Democracy without a flag or a designated spot on the ballot.
Read MoreThe Carter Center, which has accompanied Nicaragua’s electoral processes for the last 20 years, issued a pronouncement this past Tuesday regarding Comandante Ortega’s refusal to allow observation of the general elections scheduled for November.
Read MoreAna Navarro spends so much time traveling that her home address is Seat 3B, American Airlines. She says this jokingly, but the statement contains a bit of truth. At the height of this election season, this Republican strategist and political pundit for channels such as CNN, ABC and Telemundo goes from airplane to airline, crossing the United States in the path of these unpredictable primary elections.
Read MoreThe Sandinista Congress unanimously ratified Commander Daniel Ortega’s seventh presidential candidacy with their hands raised high. They also authorized him to select his running mate as well as to the list of candidates to the National Assembly and Central American Parliament, for the general elections set for November 6.
Read MoreNicaraguans celebrated Mother’s Day this past May 30th, as they do every year on this date. The commercial machinery took advantage of the occasion to push the image of a slim, heterosexual married woman, fully dedicated to her children. But there are other diverse identities involved with motherhood, and these are frequently left out of the picture. Where do these kinds of mothers fit in?
Read MoreBrazil’s federal budget watchdog, the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (TCU) has decided to suspend new funding to State-controlled Electrobras for constructing the Tumarin hydropower plant in Nicaragua, after having discovered a number of “irregularities” in the process.
Read MoreStudy reveals that post-revolution Nicaraguan youth have moved away from politics to embrace causes linked to personal development and the spiritual world. This paints a very different picture to that of over four decades ago.
Read MorePedro Alvarez didn’t have balloons. Unlike the rest of the kids on the street who were throwing water balloons, Pedro could only find his grandfather’s linen handkerchief to play with. He thought he could catch water in the piece of cloth and throw it like the other kids did with the rubber balloons. To his surprise, the water ran right through the handkerchief. Unbeknownst to him, at only five years old, Pedro had filtered the water that came out of the faucet. Nowadays, he does the same thing; only now, instead of linen, he uses nanotechnology.
Read MoreThe Government of Nicaragua has alternative sources of external funding and “will not die” by the virtual collapse of the Venezuelan aid, which has supported the country’s economy for nearly ten years, said Bayardo Arce, economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega on Thursday.
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