I believe it’s crucial that we think about the possibilty of voting NO, or even abstaining, as a movement in the making, a suppressed civil mobilization, an illusion that is surfacing to recover the right to dissent, which is not only basic but fundamental. An illusion that needs to infect the indifferent and disenchanted majority.
Read More“We have clearly verified that you turned your back on the ideals for which we supported you in the past,” state a long list of Belgians who have been supporting the Sandinistas and the people of Nicaragua for decades. They wrote an open letter to President Daniel Ortega which we publish here.
Read MoreIs the Cuban government responding to the demands of its people? Or are the modest rollbacks a tactical diversion by the State as it implements measures to maintain control in the post-Castro era of the Revolution
Read MoreOn February 24th, the Cuban people will be waiting for the voting results. I mean to say the results of the vote of every Dolby jury at the Academy Awards to select the year’s winners. Later, they will learn the result of the constitutional referendum that took place that day.
Read MoreA meeting without previously warning the public, of the dictator Daniel Ortega with “representative” businessmen of the sector (I cannot even imagine the names!) and a Cardinal who constantly falters before the couple at the El Carmen presidencial residence/offcies. For him, the repression of January 1st was not such, but only policemen “guarding” the cathedral of Managua.
Read MoreThe total amount of credits channeled through Albanisa, as of June 2018, is close to 4 billion dollars. In times of the fat cows (good times) they averaged 500 million dollars per year, no strings attached. A liquid capital that Ortega managed to his discretion, as private capital.
Read MoreDuring the cold war Latin American gorillas murdered, disappeared and imprisoned -in the name of anti-communism- citizens subjugated under their boots. Now the leaders of the left massacre us in the name of socialism and anti-imperialism because the people must be punished when they are so stupid as not to recognize what benefits them and when they spit the hands of their liberators.
Read MoreAs most Nicaraguans know, in 2018 our lives changed drastically; despite gaining in courage and indignation, we lost our freedom. That sentiment of national sorrow for the deaths and the political prisoners keeps us in a state of collective mourning. Added to that grief, I left the country in June. But let me first tell you about my childhood relationship with mental health.
Read MoreThe confession of Nicaragua’s National Police Chief Francisco Diaz to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, about how the Ortega regime’s paramilitary forces operate, has made it clear that there is a responsibility from the highest level of the police institution in leading these repressive forces.
Read MoreIn October, Ceiba Investments became the first Cuba- focused fund to ever be listed on the London Stock Exchange, raising $39 million in its first day of trading. Launched in 2001, Ceiba is the dominant foreign investor in Cuban real estate assets, managing a portfolio focused primarily on the tourism-related and commercial real estate sectors of the economy.
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