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Ortega Regime Closes Nicaraguan Scouts Association

The Masaya mayor’s office took over El Coyotepe fortress and surrounding land which had been donated to the Scouts for an educational camp.

It’s useless: tyrannies can never erase the example of courage and resistance of fighters for freedom and democracy who die in their prisons.

The flames did not touch any of the houses, and all its inhabitants managed to evacuate on time from the most voracious fire in Chile.

On December 20, 2023, marked forty years since the departure of the first German work brigade to Nicaragua.

The former president of Panama evades jail by taking refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy, but strains relations between the two countries.

There are no longer newspapers, opinion programs, radio debates, or television debates; and fewer press conferences or public rallies.

Former political prisoners exiled by the Ortega regime share details about their first year in the US, surviving the after effects of prison.

Among the cases they highlight that of “Ignacio,” a Nicaraguan who claims to have been forced to discard the ashes of his father.

CONFIDENCIAL estimates that in 2023, at least 40 Nicaraguans died from causes related to the consumption of drugs laced with fentanyl.

The novelist in exile affirms that “writing is a refuge. I would be more miserable living outside of Nicaragua if I weren’t a writer.”