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Ortega Gives Transport Boost to Evangelist Revival

Transport coops were threatened with sanctions of up to 15 days without the right to work if they refuse to assist with their vehicles

The winner of the Casa de America” prize warns that education and culture in Nicaragua is dominated by the “dictators’ personality cult.”

The Prosecutor requested eight years in prison and their sentence will be read on November 14, confirmed a source familiar with the case.

Anything can happen to us,” yet the bishops “issue no statements. We feel like sheep without a shepherd,” says a banished priest.

The Organization will continue to monitor the situation in Nicaragua & warns that its human rights obligations do not end with the withdrawal.

“Arbitrary express detentions have increased, most of which were carried out by people dressed in civilian clothes & in white pick-up trucks”

They expressed concern about “systematic patterns of harassment against members of the Catholic Church and other religious denominations.”

Those who have suffered regimes of force or imprisonment know that the power held by the army, regardless of the place, is destructive.

The first lesson from the failures of the 1979 revolution and the transition in the 90s is the lack of justice & an inclusive democratic model

“The large public works projects – highways, streets, schools are assigned to so-and-so,” according to orders from the FSLN in Managua.