Month: July 2021

The government has announced investigations, and then abducted and jailed, nearly every person in the opposition who has announced their candidacy for the presidency in November 2021. Prior to that,…

Living under police harassment in Nicaragua By Divergentes July 15, 2021 A contender for the presidency arrested, an academic, a journalist, a priest and two activists tell their daily life…

Ortega´s dilemma or how not to bite his tongue while talking against Somoza By Fabián Medina in La Prensa, July 22, 2021 History It is getting harder and harder for…

The author of this article is a well known Nicaraguan poet who had a lot of contact with the current Vice president Rosario Murillo in artistic circles during the 1980s,…

Many analysts claim that Ortega´s recent arrests of 21 opposition leaders and candidates was to provide him with  bargaining chips for future negotiations with the United States. This article places…

“We are trying criminals”: Ortega will not take “one step back” hunting down opponents By Divergentes, June 23, 2021   “We are not putting politicians on trial; we are not…