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Ortega Wants Potential Dissidents to “Leave the Country”

Nighttime detentions and express trials give proof that the regime wants to scare the country’s “silent resistance,” activists conclude.

Keny Vargas is looking for job opportunities to help his family & continue contributing to the civic struggle against the Ortega dictatorship.

Nicaraguan immigrants and exiles warn that TPS legislation could be pushed off the agenda by other urgent topics in the United States.

Attorney Yonarqui Martínez said that the new repressive pattern will affect the daily lives of Nicaraguans accused by the Ortega dictatorship.

If we proceed to eliminate as opponents all those who at some point in their lives were Sandinistas or Somocistas… who is left?

Police officers detained the journalist along with her children, ages six and eleven, while they were traveling on a public bus.

With Ortega in power, there has also been a growth in military personnel, reaching the highest number since the end of the civil war in 1990.

Scores of police abducted more than 50 Nicaraguans in a single night on May 3-4. They then carried out express midnight hearings.

His judges order “probation” for the defendants, with the obligation to sign in daily at the local police station until their trial.

Carlos F. Chamorro: “Doing journalism under a dictatorship, continuing to report and tell the truth, is an act of resistance.”