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Trials and Tribulations of a Nicaraguan Journalist in Exile

Before the April 2018 protests plunged Nicaragua into the worst sociopolitical crisis in the last three decades, I had a normal life.

Environmentalists and rural leaders warn that the dictatorship wants to keep alive the Canal Project, which never took off in eleven years.

Dozens of local businesses in the departments of Nicaragua have seen sales drop by up to 70% following the opening of Chinese stores…

Nara Milanich, professor at Columbia University: “Antisemitism is a Trojan horse; there is an intention to intervene in universities.”

Jose Mulino replaced former President Ricardo Martinelli, who has asylum in the Nicaraguan Embassy after being convicted of corruption.

Ortega and Murillo were never able to scare Rolando Alvarez into silence or get him to beg for forgiveness while in prison. Now, however…

“The Supreme Court has chosen to endorse the aspirations of a man guilty of corruption, a fugitive cloistered in the Nicaraguan Embassy.”

Martinelli led all polls for years. But after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering he was relieved by Jose Raul Mulino.

More than 8,700 census takers will visit every Nicaraguan home. Social researchers warn “there is distrust in the population.”

The International Court of Justice rejects imposing precautionary measures against Germany for arms exports to Israel, as Nicaragua demanded.