Venezuela has been suffering an almost total Internet outage during the last three days, a reflection of how serious the power outage is that began Thursday night and continues, despite a minor restoration that keeps suffering setbacks.
Read MoreIt is logical that the news of the meeting made by Ortega with some bankers, with the participation of the Nuncio and Cardinal Brenes, provoked so much controversy. It is logical, in the first place, because there are no known details of the conversations or the real intentions of those involved. Secondly, because the Nicaraguan people are accustomed to burning themselves with milk, with deceptions, disappointments, pacts and re-pacts.
Read MoreAround midnight on Thursday, the offices of CONFIDENCIAL, where the writing of an online daily newspaper, weekly magazine and the television programs Esta Semana and Esta Noche are produced, were illegally and violently assaulted by officers of the National Police, loyal to the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Reuters news agency published a video in which a preacher from Havana’s Methodist Church claimed that all Christians are against Article 68 of the draft Constitution (which takes out a reference to gender in defining marriage) because the Bible condemns it, quite simply.
Read MoreThe Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (Telcor) has ordered cell phone operators to take the 100% Noticias television channel off the satellite signal. Weeks ago, it had already ordered the removal of the station from the UHF signal, installing a new State channel.
Read MoreThe Cuban government expressed its unwavering support for its ally Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua on Thursday and condemned the recent measures announced by the US government sanctioning the vice president and first lady Rosario Murillo, and the national security adviser, Nestor Moncada, reported Granma, official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Read MoreWhat does the April Movement in Nicaragua and the events it set off resemble? It resembles the 1968 Movement in Mexico and its culmination in the Tlatelolco massacre. Two social movements, two massacres: Mexico 1968, Nicaragua 2018. There are coincidences in what the university students were demanding and how they did things…
Read MoreAfter first seeing its previously blossoming tourism industry collapse for the foreseeable future starting six months ago, now Ometepe Island’s other main traditional economic activity, the harvest and export of plantains, is at risk because the Central American truck buyers will think twice of traveling to the island where the paramilitaries have created a state of lawlessness.
Read MoreDuring this week the probability of rain will be low, the cloudiness will be very isolated, with few showers in the afternoon associated with daytime instability. The high temperatures will be around 30° C (86 F), and the lows between 24 and 25 ° C (75 and 77 F).
Read MoreCarlos Tunnermann, a member of the Blue and White Unity coalition, insisted that “it is paradoxical that a government that is practicing repression will also want to pay homage to someone who was killed for demanding precisely the end of the repression.”
Read More
