2018 - Nicaraguan Perspectives

Letter of Nicaraguan Government to OAS suspending mission of GIEI and MESENI

December 26, 2018

This is a very important document which presents the Nicaraguan government´s logic for the expulsion of the GIEI and MESENI of the IACHR. It reiterates a number of points made…

NICARAGUA: Report on the Violence Events between April 18 and May 30, 2018 By the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI)

December 25, 2018

One day before the OAS´s Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (known by their Spanish acronym GIEI) issued their report, they were expelled from Nicaragua by order of the government. This…

Bianca Jagger: “In Nicaragua an attack is happening against the press and human rights organizations”

December 23, 2018

Bianca Jagger: “In Nicaragua an attack is happening against the press and human rights organizations” Translated from BBC Mundo, Dec 17, 2018 [Spanish at: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-46595823 ] Nicaragua is ending a…

Regime cancels and assaults NGOs

December 15, 2018

As of Thursday Dec 13, 2018 the government has cancelled the legal status of nine NGOs in Nicaragua, some of the most prominent in the country working on human rights,…

President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo at the Closing of the XVI Congress of the UNEN

December 10, 2018

This event received a lot of attention for several reasons: 1) Daniel gave awards to university student leaders who led protests in the past, but have opposed the current protests,…

Ortega-Murillo: Against the Ropes?

December 8, 2018

Oscar René Vargas is a well known political analyst, now in exile in Costa Rica after the government ordered his arrest in July. He joined the FSLN in 1967 and…

NICARAGUAN ARMY, SPECTATOR OR ACCOMPLICE?

December 6, 2018

This article, and a similar one by Cajina published in ENVÍO this month, respond to an important question about the role of the Nicaraguan Army vis a vis the current…

Advent Message from the Bishop´s Conference of Nicaragua

December 3, 2018

This pastoral letter by the Catholic Bishop´s Conference, released on December 2, 2018 , should be seen within the context of the ongoing call for dialogue from the leaders of the…

Response of Nicaraguan Government to Announcement of US Sanctions

November 28, 2018

The Nicaraguan Government issued this press release shortly after the US Sanctions were announced on Nov 27, 2018. In addition to the Treasury Department, the White House added additional sanctions…

Something is cooking in the Kitchen in “EL CARMEN ”

November 27, 2018

Roberto Samcam is one of the founding members of the Sandinista Army after the triumph on 1979. Now retired, he is a widely read blogger on events in Nicaragua, and…