“The Constitution is not working; the laws are not worth the paper they are printed on,” said Ramirez, a former Vice President of Nicaragua (1985-1990) and recent winner of the Cervantes Award, the highest Spanish language literary standard. “Confiscation is an unconstitutional measure.” he noted.
Read MoreLess than 24 hours after the violent assault and looting of the newsrooms of the communication media outlets Confidencial and Esta Semana, the Ortega Police have occupied the facilities, ordering the removal of the security guards and installing half a dozen armed policemen inside the building, which was still disorderly and destroyed after the first attack.
Read MoreThe bilateral and multilateral sanctions imposed by the Trump administration and the US Senate against Ortega’s regime, which include a sanction against the First Lady and VP Rosario Murillo, represent—in the opinion of the seasoned Latin American expert Richard Feinberg, “a strong, exceptional message,” so that Ortega “enters into negotiations with the people of Nicaragua.”
Read MoreThe state of emergency imposed by Commander Daniel Ortega, severely undermining the constitutional right to free mobilization and the right to petition, represents the final period of the political exhaustion of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Read MoreLigia Gomez: “The truth is, I’m torn between two emotions. First, I feel liberated, because I’m me and I can say what I feel and think, and I can respond to my commitment with society. I studied and I got my education and I’ve dedicated my whole life to working against inequality.”
Read MoreAbout a year ago, the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio Baez, revealed in an interview on “Esta Semana” (This Week) the warning that Pope Francis made to the members of the Episcopal Conference, during a meeting at the Vatican. Take into account, warned Francis, that if the Church of Nicaragua maintains its commitment to the people, denouncing injustice and telling the truth, it will also be the object of “espionage, persecution and martyrdom.”
Read More“We are winning,” chant the people in the streets, and in effect, you can feel in the air the strategic defeat of President Ortega as Supreme Leader of the repression. His failure lies in that after having perpetrated the worse bloodbath in national history in times of peace, the only thing he can offer the country is the threat to remain in power as a feared and bloodthirsty dictator.
Read MoreDuring my adolescent years, while poring through the shelves of my father’s library at our home in the Managua neighborhood of Las Palmas, I discovered the book Estirpe Sangrienta: Los Somoza [Bloody Lineage: the Somoza family].
Read MoreLast July, the National Assembly approved the so-called “Law against money laundering, financing terrorism, and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.” The law imposes sentences of 15-20 years in jail to those persons categorized as terrorists by the regime in power.
Read MoreJournalist Angel Gahona was killed by a well-aimed gunshot on the night of April 21st in Bluefields, on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast. Brandon Lovo and Glenn Slate are the first political prisoners to be condemned by the dictatorship for the death of those victims that they themselves massacred.
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